Trump supporters chant “Genocide Joe” during a campaign speech. The ex-president agrees with the criticism of Israel - contrary to his previous position.
Trump's election campaign speech in Schnecksville took place a few hours after Iran's major attack on Israel. The denigration of Biden also implicitly includes serious criticism of Israeli's conduct of the war in Gaza. The prerequisite for defaming Biden as ‘Genocide. Joe’ is to accuse Israel of genocide in Gaza and to accuse the US government of genocide as a result of its support for Israel in the past. Trump has always presented himself as a supporter of Israel. His Republican Party largely agrees - unlike with regard to aid for Ukraine in its defensive war against Russia - that Israel must be supported with weapons and money. If Trump adopts the position critical of Israel, it could cost him a lot of sympathy in the conservative camp. The rest of his speech was less far-reaching but just as ill-considered: he called the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War with over 40,000 dead “beautiful”