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Eric Trump appeared onFox and Friendsto praise his dad's response to Hurricane Florence (which hasn't even made landfall yet) and rail on Democrats. In between his complaints about straw bans and Maxine Waters, Trump also attacked Bob Woodward's new book about the administrationas "sensational nonsense."
Then he casually dropped an anti-Semitic comment and not a single one of the Fox and Friends hosts even reacted.
"CNN will have you on there because they love to trash the president," Trump ranted. "You'll mean you sell three extra books, you make three extra shekels, I mean at the behest of the American people ..."
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While no one on the set with him called him out for his remark, people online were quick to point out how messed up the comment was.
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The word for Israeli currency is also a favorite of 4chan and other racist boards. The Daily Stormer, a white supremacist neo-Nazi Holocaust denial site, frequently uses "shekel" to describe anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
Unless you're either literally in Israel or spending a lot of time in these alt-right spaces, it's pretty unlikely that you'll even use "shekel" in your daily vocabulary.
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4chan users freaked out when they realized what Trump said on TV.
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Many Twitter users spoke out against Trump's very public anti-Semitic remark, but some also pointed out that the president's son doesn't seem to know what "behest" means.
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Merriam-Webster defines "behest" as "an authoritative order" or "an urgent prompting." Trump basically said that the American people wantedWoodward's book -- which by the way, comes out today.
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