President Trump’s scheduled visit to a popular Brooklyn kosher deli was canceled after the owner passed away of a heart attack, the New York Post reports.
“Trump had been expected to stop by Gottlieb’s — a mom-and-pop restaurant known as a staple of Hasidic Williamsburg — before heading to Washington, DC, to speak at a ‘Combatting Antisemitism’ event,” the New York Post reports.
The owner, Shalom Yoseph Gottlieb, was 76.
Gottlieb reportedly had pneumonia earlier this week and later died after experiencing cardiac problems.
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From the New York Post:
The soft-spoken deli owner — whose Hungarian-born father, Shlomo Zelka, founded the deli in 1962 after surviving the Holocaust — was known for working “every day” and generously helping poor folks, said Rabbi Moshe Indig, a Jewish community leader.
“Let’s say someone came and told him their mother was sick, had to go to the hospital. He’d say, ‘How