WATCH: Do Trump’s Four Jewish Friends Really All Share This Contrarian Opinion About Israel?

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 11 : A Trump Yarmulke is seen after President Donald J. Trump spoke at a Hanukkah Reception and participated in the signing of an Executive Order Combating Anti-Semitism in the East Room at ... WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 11 : A Trump Yarmulke is seen after President Donald J. Trump spoke at a Hanukkah Reception and participated in the signing of an Executive Order Combating Anti-Semitism in the East Room at the White House on Wednesday, Dec 11, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images) MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump’s Jewish friends all seem to have the exact same contrarian opinion about Israel.

In four recent speeches, The Washington Post pointed out Friday, Trump has recalled basically the same conversation with four different people, each with the same unexpected punchline. Simply incredible!

The story goes like this: The President recalls speaking to a Jewish friend of his and asking them “which is bigger” for Jews — moving the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, or recognizing the Israeli annexation of the Golan Heights.

In all four speeches, the answer is something else: Neither, sir. “The biggest thing of all is what you did by ending the Iran nuclear catastrophe!”

Cue applause.

Trump told the story four separate times: In a Sept. 9 speech, in a Dec. 7 speech, and twice in two separate speeches at White House Hanukkah receptions on Wednesday.

Each time, in Trump’s telling, a different Jewish friend held the exact same opinion: An unnamed person referred to as “he,” GOP megadonor Sheldon Adelson, Patriots owner Robert Kraft and, finally, Charles Kushner, the real estate-developer father of presidential son-in-law Jared.

Watch below via the Post:

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  1. Avatar for j.dave j.dave says:

    It was actually Jeffrey Epstein.

    Except that’s not quite what they were talking about.

  2. Well, they all look alike, you know. You could line up Bob ¨Happy Endings¨ Kraft, Sheldon ¨The Hut¨ Adelson, and Charles ¨Send a Hooker to your Brother in Law¨ Kushner, and I´d challenge you to see any physical dissimilarities between them.

    Oh, man, I know a couple of friends who´d really dig that MAGA yarmulke :wink:

  3. Avatar for wseitz wseitz says:

    He says they called him sir, which is an indicator that he’s lying. Also, his lips were moving, which is a dead giveaway.

  4. Trump has no friends

  5. It’s really difficult to believe that Trump would make up a story and attach multiple names to it. \s

    It’s like he’s doing the same thing as those messages that go around with the same story every few years but are attributed to someone else, the ones your relatives send around once in a while that you have to explain, again, why it’s wrong. I swear that most of my Facebook existence is explaining why those right wing memes and articles are incorrect and laying out the real facts. It’s very possible that Trump talked to no one and is just making the entire thing up and attaching whatever name he thinks of at that moment to it…the sad thing is it doesn’t matter, his followers will swallow it whole no matter how much he may be lying.

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