TIMES OF ISRAEL
A note of gratitude from a Jewish never-Trumper
Paul Mendlowitz
June 24, 2025

I never thought I’d say this, Mr. Trump – and please don’t let it go to your head – but today, I owe you thanks. I didn’t vote for you. I protested you. I laughed at your spelling, cried at your cruelty, and screamed into the void when you “truth’d” about disinfectant cures. I watched you hug flags, butcher Bible verses, and sell Trump Bibles, and confuse Iran with Iraq with a map upside-down. I am, proudly, a card-carrying member of the “Never Trump” tribe — mezuzah on the door, and more than a dozen op-eds about why you were dangerous. But today, I write with a rare and uncomfortable feeling: gratitude. Because, despite your vanity, your Twitter tantrums, your golf obsession, and your strange love letters to dictators, you bombed Iran. READ MORE