‘Deranged Delusion’: Trump Criticized for Calling Josh Shapiro ‘Overrated Jewish Governor’

Donald Trump raised eyebrows by highlighting Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s Jewish faith when the former president criticized Shapiro’s speech at the Democratic National Convention.

The Democratic governor, who was widely considered a favorite to become Kamala Harris’ running mate before she chose Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, undermined Trump’s message by claiming that Republicans opposed freedom — including the freedom to vote for anyone but him — and the former president lashed out after midnight on social media.

“Josh Shapiro, Jewish Governor of the Great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, gave a very bad and poorly delivered speech about freedom and fighting for Comrade Kamala Harris’ candidacy for President. Yet she hates Israel and will do nothing but make her journey through the complexities of survival as difficult as possible, hoping that in the end, she will fail,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Judge only by her actions! Yet Shapiro, for strictly political reasons, refused to acknowledge that I am the best friend Israel and the Jewish people have ever had.”

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“I have done more for Israel than any President, and frankly, I have done more for Israel than anyone else, and that is far from the truth,” Trump added. “Shapiro has done nothing for Israel, and never will. Comrade Kamala Harris, the radical leftist Marxist who stole the nomination from Crooked Joe, will do even less. Israel is in deep trouble!”

The Republican candidate’s statement shocked many social media users.

“Trump decides he has to put ‘Jew’ in front of ‘Governor’ for Shapiro here,” said Sam Stein of Bulwark and MSNBC.

“I’m Jewish. My relatives were killed in the Holocaust. Trump is a gonif,” said author and journalist Nancy Levine Stearns, using the Yiddish word for a disreputable person.

“I’m catching up on last night and the deranged ravings of a senile old man in Florida,” added national security attorney Bradley Moss.

“’Highly Overrated Jewish Governor’ is disgusting,” said X user Armand Domalewski.

“Is a Jewish governor different from an ordinary governor?” asked X user Michael Freeman.

“Trump called Gov. Josh Shapiro a ‘highly overrated Jewish governor,’” a group called Republicans Against Trump said. “That’s not right.”

“Donald Trump had no need to call Josh Shapiro the ‘Jewish governor,’” attorney Aaron Parnas said. “As a Jewish American, I am appalled by Donald Trump and his rhetoric.”

“I know it’s outdated to think that Trump’s rhetoric matters, but Trump has said a lot of blatantly anti-Semitic things over the years, including recently,” added Steven White, a political science professor at Syracuse University. “Imagine if a Democrat started a speech by calling someone an ‘overrated Jewish governor.’ That would be front-page news.”