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Vice President JD Vance reused one of President Trump’s jokes about a “Palestinian” member of Congress Thursday, mocking Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) over both the government shutdown and a Middle East peace deal.
“The reason we’re here is because the president actually charted a different course with a different team,” Vance said, referencing special Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff.
“Obviously the president of the United States, a New York real estate billionaire, one of the most famous New Yorkers in the world, has a lot of interaction with a lot of people who are very pro-Israel,” the vice president added.
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“He also, of course, knew one of the most famous Palestinians in the world, Chuck Schumer,” Vance ribbed.
“Someone like JD Vance should know to ‘couch’ his language more carefully,” Schumer responded in a statement. “Anyways, I’ll be here, ready to make a deal to save Americans’ healthcare and reopen the federal government that Republicans shut down.”
Schumer often touts his status as the highest-ranking Jewish member of Congress, but Trump began calling him a “Palestinian” during the 2024 campaign, claiming the Brooklyn Democrat was not supportive enough of Israel.
Trump also used the slur against his onetime rival, Joe Biden.
“As far as Israel and Hamas, Israel’s the one that wants to go — he said the only one who wants to keep going is Hamas. Actually, Israel is the one. And you should let them go and let them finish the job,” Trump said during his June 27, 2024, debate against the Democratic incumbent.
“He doesn’t want to do it. He’s become like a Palestinian. But they don’t like him, because he’s a very bad Palestinian. He’s a weak one.”
The once and future president then went after Schumer in a similar fashion after the Senate Democratic leader had called for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be voted out of office in the middle of the Jewish state’s war against Hamas.
“Look at a guy like Sen. Schumer. … I come from New York, I knew Schumer,” Trump told supporters at a Virginia campaign rally the day after the Biden debate.
“He’s become a Palestinian. He’s a Palestinian now. Congratulations. He was very loyal to Israel and to Jewish people. He’s Jewish. But he’s become a Palestinian because they have a couple more votes or something.”
In March of this year, Trump again declared to reporters in the Oval Office that “Schumer is a Palestinian, as far as I’m concerned.”
“He’s become a Palestinian. He used to be Jewish. He’s not Jewish anymore. He’s a Palestinian,” the president erupted.
But Schumer also fiercely defended Israel after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attacks that killed about 1,200 people — going so far as to visit the country and return with lists of weapons that Israeli officials requested, vowing to help provide “everything they need.”
