My fellow Americans and the people of the world this is Donald J Trump and I think
we all know what the J stands for...Jews. I want to wish everybody a Happy Hanukkah.
It is my great honor to be speaking to you on the unbelievable Jewish channel
J-TV - a great channel, amazing channel - probably one of the greatest channels in
the history of channels that I can tell you. Let us together recount the story of
this special holiday... by the way Jared taught me this ....During the time of the
Second Temple the land of Israel was conquered and ruled by the Greeks who
everyone knew were horrible people... very bad. They robbed the Jews of their
property and set up idols in their temples.. very sad... they shouldn't have done it
... and nobody could stand up against them until one special guy and his sons rose
up and drove them from their land and that guy's name was Matisyahu -
very talented and very tough, that I can tell you - and a great guy. The Chanukah
lights serve as a reminder to the world the miraculous victory of a small band
of courageous Jews defeating the massive Greek army - an unbelievable
victory... kind of like the one I had in 2016 - and I won and won very big... and
like the Jews nobody gave them a chance. The Greeks were philosophers but also
flunkies because they accepted the Torah as a book of wisdom but not as something
holy that connects us to God. They made learning the Torah illegal and outlawed
Jewish laws like Shabbat, the Sabbath, and circumcision - what a bunch of total
losers, total idiots. The Maccabees risked their lives to keep the Torah alive and
they did an unbelievable job - beautiful job.
Greater than the miracle of defeating the Greek army was the miracle of oil
- something that we should have gotten in Afghanistan and Iraq. The horrible Greeks
made all the oil in the Temple impure and amazingly the Maccabees found one
jar one that had been overlooked - but there was only enough oil for one
day - a real problem. But their love for God was so great that they lit it anyway
and God gave them another unbelievable miracle - the oil burned for eight days
can you believe that? Eight days. Everybody could see the Divine Presence
dwelt within the Jews. With tremendous joy the Jews cleansed the temple and
began to serve God once again. Nowadays we have to remember our great history and
draw on that joy. That's why we make Hanukkah parties with dreidels and
latkes because joy has the power to overcome anything negative and break any
evil decree - and we all know there's lots of evil people in the world - just look at
crooked Hillary - horrible person, total train wreck. The light of the Hanukkah
candles is holy, like the light of the menorah in the temple and like the
lights on my Trump Tower - which by the way are beautiful. We are careful not to
use it for any other purpose because our mitzvah is just to look at the
candles and listen to the story that they tell - and Jared told me the whole
thing so I know about it. The miracle of Hanukkah occurred in a very, very dark
time - like now with the fake news - when there were wicked decrees against the
Jews. But the Maccabees, like me, had the courage and never lost hope - their
self-sacrifice turned their darkness into light. Today too our self-sacrifice
will light up the world. I am President Donald Trump and you are watching J-TV
Happy Hanukkah.