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The 12 Funniest ‘King Of Israel’ Tweets, Because If We Don’t Laugh We’ll Cry

Donald Trump tweeted about being 'King of Israel'

Donald Trump, King of Israel? Image by Getty/Forward Montage

By Jenny Singer August 21, 2019

This morning, the American president indirectly called himself “the king of Israel.”

This morning Sean Spicer, a man who once claimed that Hitler did not use gas chambers, announced that he would be going on a dance-based reality show.

There also appears to be something going on with Greenland.

Being alive and being Jewish right now is enough to give you vertigo. With one hand, we’re packing a bag — and with the other, we’re tweeting jokes. Here are a few of our favorites:

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Jenny Singer is the deputy life/features editor for the Forward. You can reach her at [email protected] or on Twitter @jeanvaljenny

Jenny Singer is a freelance writer with pieces in Vox, the Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Teen Vogue, and more. She was previously a staff writer at Glamour and the Forward, and she’s currently getting an MFA in nonfiction writing at the University of Iowa.

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