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Trump's meeting with rebbes on shaky grounds: The proposed meeting President Trump was reported to hold with six prominent rebbes and a rosh yeshiva is on shaky grounds, with two close allies of the president urging him to cancel it and several of the rebbes expressing reservations over taking so much time away so close to Rosh Hashanah. • Laura Loomer, a social media influencer who has Trump's ear, and Sid Rosenberg, a NYC talk show host, posted on X that the meeting was "setting Trump up for disaster." They cited the two Satmar rebbes' alleged tolerance of Mayor Mamdani; representatives of their kehillos have met with and defended his antisemitism. • From their perspective, the rebbes are not keen on spending an entire day in Washington to meet with the president less than two weeks before Rosh Hashanah, when they typically receive thousands of chassidim ahead of the yamim noraim. • Reports are that the meeting may be canceled. • If is widely assumed that the meeting had been scheduled to help the electoral chances of Rep. Mike Lawler, a Republican who faces a stiff reelection in November.