QOTD: Voices In His Head

 

The Malignant Fascist's brilliant niece, psychologist Mary L. Trump, looks at her amoral uncle's use of religion as a tool of his power in her latest Substack work. Some excerpts, but please read the entire, fascinating piece:

"Donald has been even more erratic than usual this week, which is saying something, launching us into an illegal, unconstitutional, and unauthorized conflict with Iran and leaving everyone, including his own allies, waiting for his next move. But now he's invoking a new power in order to excuse his behavior — a God he does not believe in. Donald shocked the world by dropping bombs on Iran on Saturday after claiming two days earlier that he'd take two weeks to think about how to proceed. In his speech after launching the unprovoked attack, he invoked God multiple times:

'I want to just thank everybody, and in particular, God. I want to just say we love you, God, and we love our great military. Protect them. God bless the Middle East. God bless Israel. And God bless America. Thank you very much. Thank you.'” [snip]

Donald has been presented an opportunity by white evangelicals and extremist Catholics in this country to use religion as a prop and to exploit the faith of his followers.

In his own way, he understands that mouthing platitudes about the Bible, a book he has never read, is enough to convince people who are already predisposed to be convinced, that he shares their beliefs and is God’s messenger—if an imperfect vessel for the message." [snip]

Mike Huckabee, a Christian Zionist who is the U.S. ambassador to Israel, recently posted a bizarre message claiming the decision to attack Iran came down to a conversation between Donald and the God he does not believe in. Huckabee said, “You have many voices speaking to you, sir, but there was only one voice that matters. His voice.” What concerns me is not that God is in direct conversation with Donald because that is nonsense. It is that there are a lot of voices speaking to him and they're all in his head."  (our emphasis)

Her insights as a mental health professional into the terrible pathologies of the Trump family and the MF are invaluable and always insightful.

(photo: The MF pretends to pray with Christofascist / "prosperity gospel" charlatans. Alex Wong / Getty)