The Orange Calf Gets Messianic

 

Axios does it's usual top line look at the Malignant Loser as a "Christian," beginning with a reminder:

Trump was neither a regular churchgoer nor prone to displays of faith before running for president. His 2016 campaign produced a series of memorable gaffes as he courted the GOP's evangelical base.

• At the Family Leadership Summit in Iowa in 2015, Trump said he had never asked God for forgiveness and called Communion his "little wine" and "little cracker."
• In an interview with Bloomberg the following month, Trump repeatedly refused to name his favorite Bible verse — calling it "very personal."
• In a speech at Liberty University in January 2016, Trump cited a verse from what he called "Two Corinthians" instead of "Second Corinthians," drawing laughter from the crowd and mockery from his GOP rivals.

Since those days, he's become even more transparently risible in his devotion to a book he never opened and a religion he never practiced:

On the 2024 campaign trail, the religious undertones employed by Trump and his allies have grown more apocalyptic — even messianic — as his legal troubles have mounted.

• In one video shared on Truth Social and played at Trump's rallies, a narrator's voice booms: "On June 14, 1946, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, 'I need a caretaker.' So God gave us Trump."
• On the first day of his New York civil fraud trial in October, Trump shared an AI-generated courtroom sketch depicting himself sitting next to Jesus.
• This week, Trump posted a message he said he received from a follower: "It's ironic that Christ walked through His greatest persecution the very week they are trying to steal your property from you."

However, he's preaching to a choir of fellow hollowed- out hypocrites, who betray the religion to which they claim adherence:

64% of Republicans view Trump as "a man of faith," according to a November poll by Deseret News — more than his former vice president and vocal evangelical Mike Pence.

Ha!  Their "faith" is focused on the Orange Calf, the most un- faithful person, in every sense, that they could have chosen to follow.   He's their temporal Moses, leading them to the Promised Land of white Christian nationalism. The rest of us should never have had any doubts about this cohort's "faith," except in its fealty and devotion to the Orange Calf, forever and ever, amen.

BONUS: Don't miss this article today in Salon.com on the blindness of Trumpist "evangelicals".

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