Some American Jews “don’t love Israel enough,” US President Donald Trump said to a crowd of around 4,000 people in southern Florida on Saturday night at the Israeli-American Council 's (IAC) annual event, a comment reminiscent of previous remarks made by the president. “I think any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat, I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty,” Trump told reporters in April. The president used his talk at the IAC, his first-ever speech for a non-political Jewish organization, to attack his predecessor, Barack Obama, put down the Democratic Party and praise his efforts for the Jewish state.

“So many of you voted for people in the last administration,” Trump said to a welcome of loud chants of “four more years.”

“Someday you’ll have to explain that to me because I don’t think they liked Israel too much, I’m sorry,” he continued. “After eight years of which our alliance was undermined and neglected, I am happy to report the United States-Israeli relationship is stronger now than ever before... The Jewish state has never had a better friend in office than your president.”

He noted that he finds recent acts by the radical Left to be “unacceptable.”



Trump told the crowd that he is in shock when he sees Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi “being pushed around” by the more radical members of her party. “It is unbelievable,” he said.



He reminded attendees of the resolution introduced earlier this year by Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, championing “the right to participate in boycotts in pursuit of civil and human rights.”



He said the resolution equated supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement with boycotting the evil perpetrated by the Nazi regime during World War II.



Though Trump did not mention Omar by name, he recalled her comment last February that “supporting Israel is all about the Benjamins.”



“It is unacceptable,” the president said. “My administration strongly opposes this despicable rhetoric.



“This could not have happened 10 years ago,” he continued. “Radical lawmakers who support the BDS movement are advancing anti-Israel and antisemitic” legislation.



The president said he would do what he could to stop the sprawl of antisemitism across the United States.



He also commented on Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren: “You’re not going to vote for Pocahontas, I’ll tell you that. You’re not going to vote for the wealth tax.



“Let’s take 100% of your wealth away,” he mocked, referring to Warren’s tax policy. “No, no. Even if you don’t like me – and some of you don’t, some of you I don’t like at all actually – and you’re going to be my biggest supporters because you’ll be out of business in about 15 minutes.”

He did not mention the state of Israeli politics during his address.



Instead, the president spent most of his speech praising his own administration and the support it has provided for the State of Israel.