Trump's Bible: "In The Name Of The Father, Son, And Easter Bunny"

 

SNL's cold open last night had James Austin Johnson doing his take on the Malignant Loser's blasphemous Bible- hawking grift (including a Miracle Toaster!) during Christianity's holiest season.  

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".

(Image: Thomas Levinson / Daily Beast/ Getty Images)

Meme Of The Day -- The Orange Calf's Bible

 

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BONUS:  Jeff Bender at McSweeney's has more features of the Orange Calf's Bible.

(Credit: The Independent Tennessean Facebook, which has more along these lines at the link)

Nightly News Bits

 

She gone:

Amid a chorus of on-air protest from some of the network’s biggest stars, NBC announced Tuesday night that former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel will no longer be joining the network as a paid contributor.

The announcement came in a memo from NBCUniversal News Group Chairman Cesar Conde, who said he had listened to “the legitimate concerns” of many network employees. “No organization, particularly a newsroom, can succeed unless it is cohesive and aligned,” he wrote. “Over the last few days, it has become clear that this appointment undermines that goal.”

Conde also apologized to employees “who felt we let them down” and took “full responsibility” for the hiring...  (our emphasis)

Now do Conde and Carrie Budoff "Bugger off" Brown, the NBC News execs who thought it was a great idea to hire the fake electors conspirator.

The very definition of blasphemy:

Donald Trump is peddling a new version of a Bible published by Grammy-winning country singer-songwriter Lee Greenwood.

In a three-minute, 15-second Holy Week message posted Tuesday on his Truth Social account, the former president and presumptive 2024 Republican nominee wrote "Let's Make America Pray Again" and accompanied his message with a video touting a "God Bless the USA Bible," which costs $59.99.

"It's very important and very important to me," Trump says in the video. "I want to have a lot of people have it. You have to have it for your heart, for your soul. Many of you have never read them and don't know the liberties and rights you have as Americans, and how you are being threatened to lose those rights.

"It's happening all the time," he continued. "It's a very sad thing that's going on in our country. But we're gonna get it turned around. Religion and Christianity are the biggest things missing from our country."  [Ed. -- at this point, if the Bible is to be believed, he should have combusted.]

According to a website for the Bible for sale, the product includes a handwritten chorus to "God Bless the U.S.A." by Greenwood, the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence and the Pledge of Allegiance. The only offering is the King James version, with no other versions available. [snip]

The promotional messaging by Trump and Greenwood on social media comes one day after Trump seemingly compared his legal plight to Jesus Christ's persecution. In connection with his New York state civil fraud case, in which his bond was reduced from the $464 million he originally owed to $175 million, Trump shared a Bible verse, Psalm 109:3–8, on his Truth Social account. It was sent to him by an undisclosed individual.  [snip]

"Unrepentant grifter Trump is so desperate for cash that he's selling a 'God Bless the USA' Bible," wrote the X account Project Lincoln. "How much money do you think Trump gets off each sale?"

"One day after he compared himself to Jesus Christ, Trump is now selling a $60 'Trump endorsed' Bible," Republicans Against Trump posted. "Grifter gonna grift."

X user Ben Howe responded by quoting another Bible passage, 2 Corinthians 11:13-15, which states: "For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds."...  (our emphasis)

They'll sell like the devil.