On this holy weekend, one man is taking the Resurrection personally.
Donald Trump is presenting himself as the Man on the Cross, tortured for our sins. “I consider it a great badge of courage,” he tells crowds. “I am being indicted for you.” Instead of Christ-like redemption, he promises Lucifer-like retribution if resurrected.
In 2020 his daughter Ivanka handed Donald Trump a Bible from her bag and he clutched it in front of St. John’s Church, opposite the White House, moments after the police tear-gassed protesters and journalists at a nearby demonstration about George Floyd’s murder.Two-Corinthians Trump wouldn’t know the difference between Old and New Testaments.
“Happy Holy Week!” he wrote on Truth Social. “Let’s Make America Pray Again. As we lead into Good Friday and Easter, I encourage you to get a copy of the God Bless The USA Bible.” “I want to have a lot of people have it,” Trump said of his Bible. “You have to have it for your heart, for your soul.” Religious snake-oil salesmen have a storied history in American literature and films, from Flannery O’Connor’s, about a conniving Bible salesman and his small helper. But it’s shocking when the charlatan might be in the Oval Office.
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