Trump appearance at NYC kosher deli canceled at last minute after owner dies

Former President Donald Trump’s scheduled appearance at a kosher deli in Brooklyn Thursday was canceled after the owner died of a heart attack at age 75.

Trump had been expected to stop by Gottlieb’s, an eatery located in the heart of Hassidic Williamsburg, before heading to Washington, DC, to speak at a “Combatting Antisemitism” event.

The deli’s owner Shalom Yoseph Gottelib, 75, contracted pneumonia last week and succumbed to a heart attack earlier today. The deli was founded by Gottelib’s father, who was a Holocaust survivor, and his son Menashe has run the eatery for the past few years.

The funeral will be held at 172 Ross St. in Brooklyn at 2 p.m.

Trump, 78, stopped by PubKey a Bitcoin bar in New York City before holding a campaign rally at Nassau Coliseum on Long Island.

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