We have finally found a bridge too far for this White House, incredibly enough, a point which they won’t cross. And what exactly was that point? Utter religious blasphemy during Holy Week, would you believe it? Let’s have a peek at what the White House decided should not be on their official account.
WOW. The White House deleted a video of an hour-long Easter event from yesterday where Trump said we can’t fund day care because of wars, said he defends his friends “even if they’re bad people,” and had an adviser compare him to Jesus, among other bonkers moments
You know what… https://t.co/8ZjPzLrAQH
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) April 2, 2026
It got a lot worse than this. Trump carried on egregiously. From Charlie Sykes newsletter.
The “faith leaders” — including Catholic Bishop Robert Barron — joined in the Holy Week seal-clapping ritual.
Fortunately, there’s a word for this: “Blasphemous,” Catholic theologian Rich Raho posted on X. “It’s stunning to see a US Bishop standing right there on the stage while Paula White compares Trump to Jesus Christ.”
Fr. James Martin, the editor of America Magazine, explained:
Asking God, in a public prayer, to help a political leader make wise decisions, care for the poor, seek peace, foster harmony, and try to include all those who feel excluded? Yes. Comparing a political leader, in a public prayer, to the sinless Son of God during Holy Week? No.
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As for Trump? Sweet Jeebus. Once again: WWJD? Not this, FFS.
Trump opened with approximately 45 minutes of political commentary before a single prayer was offered. He discussed military operations in Iran and Venezuela, attacked Democratic judges and Supreme Court justices, mocked the British prime minister and French president by name, celebrated the dismantling of the Department of Education, and urged his audience to mobilize for the 2026 midterms.
“We got to do it for the midterms,” he told the room of pastors and clergy. “Otherwise they’re going to take it all away.”
The segment about Somali immigrants in Minnesota was particularly vicious. Trump called them “low IQ people,” “bad people” with “94 percent unemployment” who “stole $19 billion” and buy Mercedes-Benzes with stolen welfare money.
He attacked Representative Ilhan Omar as a “stone-cold crook” who married her brother. He called the governor and attorney general of Minnesota “crooked” and “stupid.” Barron — bishop of a Minnesota diocese, shepherd to the neighbors of the people being slandered — sat through every word and said nothing.
When Trump turned to the Holy Week scripture reading, he interrupted his own recitation of Christ’s entry into Jerusalem. “They call me King,” he told the room. “Now do you believe it?” Reading about Christ’s betrayal and arrest, he added: “We know the feeling. Many of the people in this room went through hell.”
That is too much for this White House. Fortunately, all of this data went far and wide on the internet and it’s fodder for Democratic ads during the midterms. Trump may not be on the ballot but his enablers are and they must be defeated. Oh, and Trump ended his afternoon luncheon by announcing he would be on TV later that night and “tell everybody how great I am.” Yesterday was quite a day.
Talk about a perfect example of why I’m agnostic. Yes, as I point out the New Testament is Jesus redefining the worship of God, a putting an end to the old fire & brimstone, smiting of sinners God and teaching of a loving one. And therefore love of God expressed through love and caring of others, especially the less fortunate was the key to heaven.
However, just as that aspect of jarhead grunt capable on things those who knew me before and after would never believe of their ‘gentle giant’ certain things are still there, if buried deep. So if there IS a god that old fire & brimstone and punishment when he’d had enough of people’s bullshit is in there somewhere.
That it did NOT surface with lighting bolts frying these assholes to a crisp and the opening of a hole through which the smoldering embers would be sucked down to hell makes me think I should shift from agnostic (doubt the existence of a God) to flat-out atheist.
If Trump had the slightest humility or concept of God, he would not have allowed such a display to take place.
Something to think about:
god and evil
These pseudo-Christians have absolutely no shame. Bad enough that the loathsome Paula White is sufficiently morally bankrupt to compare the scum Trump (favorably) to Jesus, but for a Catholic Bishop to take part in such a spectacle is beyond all redemption. And the utterly godless Trump actually did a reading from Scripture? I’m with Denis here: they all were worthy of lightning from on high smiting them all the way down to Purgatory.
It will be interesting to see how The Pope handles this un-Christian behavior from one of his bishops. Maybe he won’t be staying a bishop?