“Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it,” goes the proverb. Donald Trump is now an expert on proverbs, as you will find out comically in just a moment, plus all things religious and biblical. Trump has brought this level of scrutiny to himself because he’s chosen this past holiday weekend to focus on a religious bent to his Xmas greetings. Trump has mounted the rostrum to inform us that we are all “children of God” and that Jesus is our savior. Kenneth Copeland is undoubtedly loving this. He’s going to figure out some marketing tie-in which will buy him another airplane, mark my words.
The religious bent is part of an overall pivot, which you may have read about here earlier today, namely Trump’s pivot to the status of elder statesman. He is the iconoclast no longer, nay, he is the very essence of the experienced politician, the man you need back in power to see that things are done right. My take on this is that it’s going to be a complete disaster for Trump because the MAGAs want the insult comic mocking the people that they hate up on the podium, not some laid back version of Trump being Mr. Positive. They don’t want Norman Vincent Peale up there, they want the leftist-hating bomb thrower. In any event, here’s what has been unearthed about Trump since he’s chosen to walk the path of the intellectual and moral standard bearer.
There is NO SUCH PHRASE in the Bible that saying "bending to envy". W in TF did he come up with THAT? I looked it up and it does not exist.
— Donna Fofonna (@donna_fofonna) December 25, 2023
It does not exist.
And Jesus specifically repudiated “eye for an eye.”
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) December 25, 2023
What, now we’re to take Jesus and the Bible as religious sources above Donald Trump? Heresy, I tell you, sheer heresy. Here’s some elaboration on what you just saw from the Washington Post:
During the interview, Brody told Trump that “the word on the evangelical street is there are evangelicals that really are interested in voting for you, but they want you to tone down the insults a little bit.” Brody asked the insult-flinging candidate if that’s possible.
“I can understand it a hundred percent,” Trump responded, “but, you know, I am a certain type of person.”
Trump said his personality has enabled him to building an “amazing” life and business — and would help him get the United States “back into shape.”
“I’ve dealt with very tough hombres and very tough people, and I’ve come out on top,” Trump said. “And I can understand the evangelicals to a certain extent saying: ‘Well, maybe he’s not as nice as we want him to be.’ But they also want to see the country be great.”
Brody also asked Trump if he has a weakness. The candidate responded that while he has a “great temperament,” maybe he should “tone it down a bit when pressed.”
“I think maybe I can sometimes tone it down,” Trump said. “When somebody hits, you can hit a little bit less hard. At the same time, that may be the kind thing that the country needs because we have to hit back hard. We have to fight hard because we’re not going to have a country.”
Trump continued: “You need a person of tremendous strength — but I think I could tone it down a little bit, and I’ll try.”
The reasons that Trump was elected the first time are numerous but I think it comes down to this:
- He was something never before seen. A novelty act is something killer when it’s a novelty. Look at the hula hoop and the hundreds of millions of dollars made from it. But all fads die out.
- He played the part of the savvy, self-made billionaire on The Apprentice for 14 years. The low information people bought into it as reality, not reality TV.
- After eight years of Obama it was natural that the pendulum would swing back and Trump rode that momentum.
- The GOP enabled him.
- The GOP enabled him.
- The GOP enabled him.
Don’t question, ever, the validity of the fact that Trump at the top of the GOP ticket gave him the cache due any other Republican candidate in the past. It was assumed that he held the same conservative values, stood for the same principles. And that makes perfect sense. Certainly every Democratic standard bearer has been the representative of our core values. Many people who had been lifelong Republicans voted for Trump because of the presumptive GOP endorsement of who and what he was. It was obvious who and what he was, and it was Republican only insofar as representing the absolute lunacy of the worst Republican fringe groups. But the GOP went along with it because they had nobody better.
Fast forward to 2024, the GOP still has not developed any leaders and we’re still stuck with Trump. Only 2024 won’t be a repeat of 2016. And Trump knows it. He’s indicated that he knows it this past week in particular when he’s gone out of his way to pivot to the role of the elder statesman.
What’s comical about that is that we already have one elder statesman in office now and Joe Biden has spent more decades in politics than Trump spent years. But Trump knows he can’t win as the outsider, the bomb throwing iconoclast. So now he’s got this new gig going, where he’s playing the elder statesman.
I predict this is going to fall resoundingly on its ass, sooner rather than later. It’s already blowing up in his face. But he’ll continue to do this because he believes he will win in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina — and very probably he’s right. So he’s going to accept these prizes like he was Winston Churchill and lead MAGA on its next phase — all the while fighting his four indictments and 91 felony charges.
I also predict that this is going to be the most batshit election year in American history.
Let’s talk about Trump dealing with “tough hombres” and implying he whups them. Everyone knows that one of his biggest dreams since all the way back in the 1980s was a Trump Tower in Moscow. He’s wheeled and dealed and I’m sure begged and pleaded. For much of the with Val Pootie, the dictator he so admiringly speaks of. Of course, somewhere along the line Putin came to own Trump’s ass but the fact is Pootie kept dangling the prospect of a Trump Tower Moscow out there and llike the dumbest f**king fish in the world Trump swallowed the bait and got reeled in. So much for Trump being able to beat a “tough guy.” Xi from China kept getting the better of him too. He had a casino in Atlantic City FAIL. You know how that happens? Just like in Vegas when the mob got their hooks into the owner. They keep demanding more of the cut and sometimes the casino can’t keep up and fails. There have been plenty of indicators for decades of Trump getting money from organized crime when he was in a pinch and engaging in some money laundering. High end real estate is good for that which is why Trump got away with it. Plenty of others did the same thing and still do so. But it’s gotten a lot tougher and getting, as his son’s said all the financing they needed from Russia allowed Trump to start avoiding all that oversight by regulators and prosecutors. Every time he matches up with tough guys he loses.
The MAGA creed: “I believe in Don the father, Don the son and Eric the wholly goof”
The Lowly Trinity
When he talks about the Bible, and also about art, it is so obvious that he hasn’t the faintest idea what he’s talking about. In response to soft, spoon-fed questions, all he can manage is one or two vapid cliché generalities, which is the sum total of what he has in his head. He can’t carry off even a faint imitation of knowing anything about them. You’d have to be totally in the tank with Trump to believe any of this crap. But they do. This is what blind faith can do to people.
I was waiting for him to be asked to quote some scripture from the Bible. Fat chance! This fake didn’t even write his own book, The Art of the Deal, which I’m sure he hasn’t even read. WTF is wrong with his supporters! He’s so transparently ignorant yet they’re blind do the fact.
Have you been out in public in America? The average orange vomits supporters are the lowest of low white trash, bitter, hateful, paranoid, superstitious and dumber than a rock and beyond repulsive to be around.
The only good Blind Faith was the supergroup with Eric Clapton and Stevie Winwood…their song Can’t Find My Way Home works for this clueless bunch.
Loved Blind Faith, too bad they only cut one album. All songs were great, Do What you Like!
“… Trump at the top of the GOP ticket gave him the cache due any other Republican candidate in the past.”
Now I remember! I grew up in a thoroughly Republican area. We ALL liked Ike. Then we were presented with his VP, Nixon, as the next GOP front-runner. … But I went off to college and very quickly stopped being a good little Republican. There’s the old saying “There’s nobody more obnoxious than a reformed smoker.”
Well, we all know that he cannot sustain the intellectual elder statesman role as that is way too far out of his comfort zone. He will revert back to being an immature schoolyard bully in no time.
That may occur at any moment, we all know the drill … The kids know the drill, ask a couple questions and the impure adults react to the simplest words in repeated order one being, [WHY?] Questions Trump should be asked [Who said that and when?] [Where was that in the Bible?] [Do you believe GOD is ALL Powerful and can do anything?] (If answer YES) then [Could GOD build a stone too heavy for Him to pick up?]
Simple little traps that could deliver punches to his dwindling mind … And lead to him leaving the room or STATE … Also, “Lock him up”, has done wonders to his composure …