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President-elect Trump often trashes the press and threatens journalists and foreign leaders. Last Monday, he pledged "hell to pay" if October 7 hostages were not released before his inauguration day on January 20. However, his Rambo-style mentality is misdirected. His language is not only ugly and repellent, but it also implies that he needs to be deciphered. "Hell, to pay" is an idiomatic expression that means to warn someone that someone will be very angry if a particular thing happens or if it does not happen.

Florida state senator Randy Fine made international news this week, and even the Times of India picked up the story. Fine, who will be running for a Congressional seat being vacated by Mike Waltz, Donald Trump's nominee for national security advisor, issued an open threat to the two Muslim Congresswomen, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar. With a 'Bombs Away' hashtag, Fine wrote, “The Hebrew Hammer is coming.” Fine, who is Jewish, wrote in a post on X, “[Rashida Tlaib] and [Ilhan Omar] might consider leaving before I get there.” Fine's campaign has been endorsed by President-elect Donald Trump.  Fine bragged about being endorsed by the Republican Jewish Coalition this week by referring to himself as the “Hebrew Hammer” while tagging Omar and Tlaib in a tweet. Fine is not running in the state of Minnesota or Michigan. Instead of calling himself the "Hebrew Hammer," it would be more accurate if he called himself the "Jewish Elephant." That way, it would sound more Republican and less threatening.