Trump repeated a campaign refrain Wednesday when he called Schumer a "Palestinian." Schumer is the highest-ranking elected official in Washington D.C.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday launched into a bizarre attack on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer — the highest-ranking Jewish person in the American government — by inexplicably claiming that the New York Democrat was no longer Jewish during a marathon media availability alongside Irish Taoiseach Micheal Martin.

Donald Trump alleged Wednesday that Chuck Schumer, the top Democrat in the Senate, is not Jewish. “Schumer is a Palestinian, as far as I’m concerned. You know, he’s become a Palestinian,” the president said in the Oval Office on Wednesday.