Read your Shakespeare, Mr. POS, er, POTUS

 

I don't expect that the dunce we have for a President remembers much Shakespeare, if he even studied it.

He probably thinks The Merchant of Venice is somebody he gets his ornate glassware from. 

Because, clearly, he did not know who Shylock was.

Trump responds after sparking outrage for use of 'anti-Semitic term' during tax cuts celebration

So what did he say?

" 'No death tax. No estate tax. No going to the banks and borrowing from, in some cases, a fine banker — and in some cases, shylocks and bad people,' he said."

 So how did he explain that?

" 'I've never heard it that way,' he told reporters at Joint Base Andrews after his rally.

'The meaning of Shylock is somebody that's a money lender at high rates. You view it differently. I've never heard that.' "

Well, as the article notes, Shylock was Jewish, and he wasn't a sympathetic character, deliberately. Calling someone (anyone) a shylock is anti-Semitic. As the article notes, Joe Biden did it once, and apologized for doing it.  

Will Trump apologize?

Who are we kidding?  He's not only incompetent, he's unrepentant -- about anything he does that's offensive. 

I'll end this post with Shylock, not Trump. So judge for yourself -- was he depicted as an appealing character here?  Not exactly Romeo Montague, is he?  (And Romeo was a murderer.)