As part of the new normal of 2025, we find out that America has a death wish for the current occupant of the Oval Office. At least enough of America feels that way to where variations of Trump Is Dead keep trending, often for days on end. Yes, it is tasteless that American culture has come to this. But you can’t say it’s surprising. Shocking yes, surprising no. I am put in mind of the scene where the Sigourney Weaver character is fighting off the Alien from within the confines of a kind of body tractor. In frustration she finally screams, “Just die, you bitch!” And the audience roars in suppressed comic relief. Just like Ellen Ripley wanted to simply be gone from her nemesis, so do a lot of Americans want to be gone from ours. But now here’s the spin: is it possible that Trump himself wants to go? Because there seems to be evidence of that.
Nick Fuentes explains that Alex Jones has been talking to people in The White House about how Trump has become obsessed with the idea of getting into heaven #trumpdead pic.twitter.com/EtU2f8lVfg
— Caitlin of County Kerry (@lynn_of_cait) September 2, 2025
Fuentes does make one key point here and that is Trump’s predictability. He’s not the kind of a guy who talks about spiritual matters or even philosophical ones. His worldview could accurately be described as: “Do I kill it, fuck it, or sell it?” That’s the extent of Trump’s transactional relationships and he is a man known for nothing but. What’s in it for me is not only the guiding principal, it is the only principal of Trump world.
So how did he come to think about the afterlife? Wellll, he’s probably had at least one or two real world conversations with an M.D. and we’re not talking Ronny 200 Years Jackson. No, we’re talking about a real doctor who took the time to explain what the top and bottom metrics of the blood pressure test means, and what a resting pulse is, what the norms are and where Trump’s numbers weigh in.
He’s most likely been put on notice that if he wants to be around for another ten, fifteen years that he’s going to have to do some proactive things and change his lifestyle. He’s probably been told, in all truth, that he’s already living on borrowed time since the average life expectancy of an American male is 78 and a third years. He’s probably been informed that only 21% of American men live to be 85.
What’s that you say? Does Trump want the Nobel Peace Prize because he thinks he can present it at the Pearly Gates? Good question, especially considering the fact that this is a man who believes that everything is for sale and life is only a question of meeting somebody’s price.
🚨 Donald Trump On His Fake Death News:
"I skipped press conferences for TWO DAYS and they said 'something must be wrong with him'!" 😅😂 #trumpdead
pic.twitter.com/B4rqWF5ntf— Siddharth (@Siddharth_00001) September 2, 2025
I wonder if Melania will skip the funeral when it happens? She’s demonstrated that she really doesn’t care (do U?) about trivia like appearances and this time out she’s not even bothering to cohabitate with Donald in the White House. And actually that’s refreshing. No more of this fake it till you make it stuff, she’s letting the entire world know out front that she’s not up to even the pretense that they’re actually together. The Trumps may be married on paper, but that’s about the extent of it. Take it or leave it.
How I imagine Americans must feel about #trumpdead trending. pic.twitter.com/i9RXgaSlA9
— Bubbe Wokestein 💙🇪🇺 🇨🇦✡️ (@veggieto) September 1, 2025
I know how this kid feels. Every morning I go to the internet, thinking maybe today will be the day and nope. Curses, foiled again. But one day it will happen. I don’t see the morbidly obese Trump with the venous insufficiency, the sores/ulcers on the back of the hand, the leg braces, catheter, shoe lifts, the whole kit and kaboodle being here another ten years. Maybe not even another five.
If speculating about Trump’s demise makes me a monster, hey, just tell me: Should I wear the Frankenstein mask or the Dracula? If I told you anything else you wouldn’t believe me and you would be right. So why not tell the truth?
The only negative I can see in the event of Trump’s demise in the White House would be that Vance gets a boost in his feverish search for the presidency. Then again, that might be an advantage for whoever becomes the Democratic candidate….
Clarence Darrow: ‘I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.’
You are definitely no monster Ursula, just a good down to earth truth teller. Your bit where you write “… His worldview could accurately be described as: “Do I kill it, fuck it, or sell it?” That’s the extent of Trump’s transactional relationships … is the only principal of Trump world….” He can’t transaction – his impending mortality and freedom from his past sins – to winkle his way out of the shite he’s got himself into. This transactional toad has been, to an extent, been aided and abetted by certain unsavoury bits and elements of America’s fabric and individuals and collectives. The following words attributed to Oliver Kornetzke, on what is seen going on today, rings true “… The festering arrogance of America’s rot shoved into an ill fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman; the cowardice of a draft dodger; the gluttony of a parasite; the racism of a Klansman; the sexism of a back-alley creep; the ignorance of a bar-stool drunk; and, the greed of a hedge fund ghoul – all spray painted orange and paraded like a barn yard hog at a country fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased distillation of everything this nation swears it isn’t, but always has been – arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism; stupidity passed off as common sense; cruelty sold off as toughness; greed exalted as ambition; and corruption worshipped like gospel. It is America’s shadow made flesh; a rotting pumpkin idol, proving that when a nation kneels before money, power and spite, it doesn’t just loose its soul – it shits out this bloated obscenity and calls it a leader…”
In sum. It’s no wonder Ursula, the better of America have your back, and like it when you tell the truth. Bravo.
Post It Note’s post should be posted on every wall, on every social media site. Texas should mandate it to the schoolroom wall instead of the 10 commandments.
The best “Look in the Mirror, US” I’ve seen
Geez…I dunno donny. You think God will hold all those crying and damaged kids…kids with nothing…except family…families that you destroyed…thousands of them…against you? By the way… its impossible to blow smoke up God’s arse. Even Job knew better, and he was innocent…you’re not.
The earth spins and orbits around the sun. It stops for no man.
Don’t be coy, Oliver. Tell us what you really think.
The actual numbers according to my AI browser: a 79-year-old man IN GOOD HEALTH in the
U.S.A has an almost-9-year life expectancy, or celebrate his 88th birthday (yeah, we know, he’s definitely nowhere near good health). The 78.3 year number is the latest available, for a male BORN in the U.S. in 2023.
True enough, it’s a very good thing if Doodypantz is taking the 78÷ number to heart.
Dr. Barber (and a few others) wrote him a really nice letter about that heaven remark. It’s longish, but I don’t believe there’s a link:
Dear Donald,
We are pastors, addressing you here not by your title in the office of President of the United States, but by the name you bear as a sacred child of God.
We saw in the news last week that you said you “want to try to get to heaven if possible,” but that you are hearing you are “really at the bottom of the totem pole.” We’ve been pastors long enough to know that fear isn’t a sustaining motivation for spiritual growth, but it does get some people started – especially older people who’ve carefully avoided addressing their own mortality. We all die, and before we meet our Maker, we each have the opportunity to receive the free gift of grace that makes all things new. We want you to know that gift today – both for your sake and the sake of the whole world that is subject to the consequences of your actions.
We are aware that some people do not pray for anything but the wrath of God to come down upon you. It is not a charitable prayer, but it is understandable. You have targeted people with words and policies that have made their lives a living hell. Immigrants worry if they will be separated from their families. People in nursing homes worry if they will be put out in the street. People without homes worry that their possessions will be confiscated and the liberty taken away. Former political allies live in fear that you will turn a mob against them with a social media post. You have consistently named the majority of Americans and the global community that opposes your policies as enemies.
Though we are among those you demonize because we disagree with you, we do not join those who pray for your demise. We cannot. We serve a God who calls us to pray for our enemies, and we have taken vows that compel us to offer pastoral care to all people – especially to those who are captive to the powers of sin, death, and the devil.
When we say our prayers each morning, we ask God to set you free.
The truth is hard to find for anyone in your position, but it is especially difficult when your political position depends on a lie. Where would you be without the lie that you have convinced so many Republicans to repeat about the 2020 election being “stolen”? Where would you be without the lie about a “criminal invasion” that you used to build your initial campaign – the same lie you repeat today as a justification to militarize cities that did not request your protection? Where would you be without the racist lie about President Obama’s birth certificate that got you involved in national politics in the first place?
Where would you be without the lies about “waste, fraud and abuse” that Republicans in Congress used to strip healthcare from millions of Americans and food from the mouth of the hungry? Where would you be without the lies about crime that you’ve used to fill cities with armed troops on American soil? Where would you be without the lies about voter fraud that you repeat to justify voter suppression?
Jesus said, “You shall know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” To come to the end of this earthly life without any hope of freedom is a terrifying prospect. Through the centuries it has compelled people to sell their possessions and give them to the poor, to make amends with people they have harmed over the course of their lives, to give up vices cold turkey and devote themselves to service. As we said, a genuine fear of the Lord can be the beginning of knowledge.
But the freedom you seek is not possible until you let go of your dependence on lies. The most basic lie any person can believe is the lie that says they do not need any help – that they and they alone can be the master of their fate. To trust God for the gifts of heaven’s grace is to trust that God is also right about how we should live: with justice toward all people, with compassion for those who are vulnerable, with forgiveness toward our enemies, with charity toward those in need.
At the heart of the Christian faith is a call to repentance, which literally means to “rethink” how we live in light of Jesus. We have heard you say that you have not asked God for forgiveness but that you try to live in a way that you do not have to ask for forgiveness. But Scripture is true when it says that “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” Saying we are sorry that we have sinned and doing the hard work of repairing the harm we have done to others is fundamental to the faith. When Zacchaeus met Jesus and confessed that he had stolen from the people, he committed to pay back everyone he had wronged four times what he’d stolen from them.
Salvation is not a deal we make with God, but a gift of God’s grace to us even though we do not earn or deserve it. It doesn’t require anything from us, but to accept it does require repentance. Peter said, “Repent, and ye shall be saved.”
Repentance opens us up to empowering grace that changes us. Which is why the Bible says we demonstrate our salvation by love and compassion to the most vulnerable. Matthew 25 is clear that we will give account for our lives based on how we treated the homeless, the hungry, those in need of healthcare, immigrants and refugees, the starving children of Gaza and the Sudan.
This salvation is deeply personal, but it is never private. And it always has social ramifications. This is why Isaiah 10 declares woe to those who legislate evil and Matthew 23:23 warns those who neglect the weightier matters of the law – love, justice, and mercy.
Which is why we write to you, Donald. You cannot serve two masters. When a person recognizes that they are a child of God’s creation, they either serve their Creator or they don’t. And if they serve God, their Creator, they recognize that their actions have an impact on others.
Have you come to this recognition, Donald? We are reaching out because we care about you, and we care about all the people your actions are hurting. We know it doesn’t have to be this way. One day you will have to face God’s judgement. By Scripture and by grace, we are bound to care about you.
We are not reaching out because we believe we have any unique power to persuade you. We write because we serve a God who insists that no one is beyond redemption. We reach out because we believe in God’s power to break through and either change or stop anybody. We do not have a heaven or hell to put anyone in, but we know the way that leads to life, and we know that anyone who is serious about discipling themselves to this Way can experience transformation.
That road is not easy, but it is a gift. And if you are earnest about your desire to get to heaven, we would be glad to meet with you to talk about it. If repentance is true, then freedom can begin whenever you’re willing to embrace the truth. This is why St. Catherine said, “All the way to heaven is heaven because Jesus said, ‘I am the Way.’”
With continued prayers for you,
Bishop William J. Barber, II
Repairers of the Breach
Shane Claiborne
Red Letter Christians
Rev. CeCe Jones-Davis
Black Church PAC
Bishop Yvette Flunder
The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries
Rev. Dr. Alvin O. Jackson
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), retired
Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III
Trinity United Church of Christ
Rev. Dr. Della Owens-Barber
St James Christian Church
Min. Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
St. Johns Missionary Baptist Church
(me again – I saved it because sometimes I need to be reminded who I am supposed to be.)