Trump, who became the presumptive Republican nominee earlier in March, posted a video on his Truth Social platform on Tuesday urging his supporters to buy the "God Bless the USA Bible," inspired by country singer Lee Greenwood's patriotic ballad.
"Happy Holy Week! Let's Make America Pray Again. As we lead into Good Friday and Easter, I encourage you to get a copy of the God Bless the USA Bible," Trump wrote in the post, alongside a link to a website selling the book for $59.99. It came a day after Trump seemingly compared his legal plight to Jesus Christ's persecution.
And it comes as he faces mounting legal bills while fighting four criminal indictments and a series of civil charges while running to reclaim the White House. On Monday, a New York appeals court agreed to hold off on collecting the more than $454 million he owes following a civil fraud judgment if he puts up $175 million within 10 days.
Asked for comment about the backlash, Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung told Newsweek: "These are Never Trump idiots suffering from a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome."
In case anyone thought even Christians are welcome to criticize the idol.
The website selling the Bible bills the book as "the only Bible endorsed by President Trump!"
lol
As well as a King James Version translation, it includes copies of the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence and the Pledge of Allegiance, as well as a handwritten chorus of "God Bless the USA" by Greenwood.
Some Christians, I'm sure. The Evangelicals that already loved him are currently trying to figure out how to shove a Trump Bible in their anus while describing it as "God's plan".
“I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holey and acceptable to God, place his word into thy rectum, which is your spiritual worship.”
Christians isn't a monolithic entity, the way the headline pretends. There's liberal Christians and conservative Christians. Hell, there's an LGBTQ church down the street from here with a trans pastor and a church trauma support group.
i.e. Not all Christians love what Trump has done and not all Christians hate that he's selling bibles.
Look, i can excuse the racism, having no clue what he's doing as a president, the rape allegations, he's super into minors, probably his own daughter, stealing and selling sensible documents, the nepotism, the lies, grifting his voters, swindling taxpayer money, not paying any fees ever, not paying for venues that he rents out, using his golf course to, again, steal taxpayer money, he might be a blatant russian asset, he's also way too much into dictators, he didn't furfill ANYof his campaign promises, selling beans from the oval office.
But selling an old ass novel about my imaginary sky daddy? You crossed the line there buckaroo.
Christians are not a homogeneous blob of identity. As you may or may not have guessed, these are not the far-right Christians who believe Trump is the Second Coming of Christ. They are not responsible for what other people who identify as Christians have done or said, and they are entitled to change their minds about things they themselves have done or said.
They are fully entitled to speak out against the weaponisation of their religion and good luck to those who are courageous enough to do so.
It's just tribalism. Anyone who doesn't fit in gets grouped together (ie. a lot of these comments imply most religious people support Trump). Lemmy isn't immune to it.
No. I do not accept this any longer.
There are not "good christians" and "bad christians". There are christians and not christians. And christians are bad. Always have been. If you identify as a christian then these are your people.
Hey, Christians are the ones who got the Sunny D Orangutan into the oval office the first time. Anything that separates Mr. Cheeto Smegma from his base is a good thing in my book.
This is the fucking bridge that is too far? This is the straw that broke the camel's back? This is the hill you'll die on?
Fucking hell, I was raised Christians and I think that Jesus guy had some great ideas but I certainly don't identify as one now because fuck... Christians give Christ a bad name.
I'm glad more people are seeing through the grifter, but holy shit are these people dumb.
Right? It's not, say, cheating on his pregnant wife with a prostitute? I would have thought THAT would be the thing that destroys his support among Christians, but nah, they don't care.
But selling overpriced Bibles does upset them? Why? It's probably the least insane thing he has done yet.
Remember the part in the bible that describes what Jesus did, to the people who were trying to make money off God?
Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. "It is written,” he said to them, “ ‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”
Christians are so virtuous that a very small minority is finally upset about this after the last 8 years of supporting a man and a party that is quite literally the antithesis of what the Bible says that Jesus taught. Yeah I'm sure they'll all turn over a new leaf now lol. Religion is a mental disorder and it's time to start treating it like what it is.
So only normal greed based capitalists? Wow, good for them! Jesus said to share ALL of your money with the poor and specifically said to pay taxes according to the Bible. Supposedly the Bible is the literal word of God. If you're a "Christian" and you're not at least a socialist if not a full blown Communist then you're a fraud.
Yup. Churches can’t donate to politicians directly, but they can buy comically overpriced bibles in bulk. We can’t donate $60k to a political campaign, but we can buy 1000 bibles and claim it’s for replacing the books in the church pews.
A sample size of a few dozen people complaining online while thousands quietly purchase said bibles. Absolutely not buying into "the fury of Christians" either.
Anecdotally, I've seen a little more backlash to this than other issues. Until kow they've kinda bee willfully ignoring that he's evil because he hasn't been overt that he's using people's faith as a tool.
But directly trying to sell expensive Bibles to the faithful so they'll pay for his rape penalty is pretty galling no matter how you look at it.
Their handlers (pastors, Fox News, OANN, etc) have made them genuinely terrified that everyone outside their echo-chamber are "baby-murdering, child-grooming, liberal perverts that want to force you to swear allegiance to the Beast of the End Times". Any attempt to validate those claims is not just treason, but literal religious heresy. I'm sure you don't need to be told, but I'll say it anyway: I am not exaggerating.
Even quoting their own scripture at them (because it absolutely disagrees with almost everything they stand for) is immediately disregarded... because remember: not doing as your told is the work of Satan, and "even the devil can quote scripture."
There is no redemption for people like that (see: Matthew 23:13).
I find it amusing that given they are such good Christians they couldn't have just written their own translation and depend instead of the public domain King James Bible.
In a late stage capitalist system it's a national security issue to have a president in such a severe amount of debt. It should be a requirement to be personally debt free to be president.
Trump, who became the presumptive Republican nominee earlier in March, posted a video on his Truth Social platform on Tuesday urging his supporters to buy the "God Bless the USA Bible," inspired by country singer Lee Greenwood's patriotic ballad.
As we lead into Good Friday and Easter, I encourage you to get a copy of the God Bless the USA Bible," Trump wrote in the post, alongside a link to a website selling the book for $59.99.
Today, much like Jesus overturning the moneychangers' tables, Christians are sick of seeing MAGA's false prophets twist our loving faith for an agenda of hatred and selfishness.
He has completely trashed our political party & now he's trying to ruin our faith community for his own ends," Heath Mayo, a conservative lawyer, wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
As well as a King James Version translation, it includes copies of the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence and the Pledge of Allegiance, as well as a handwritten chorus of "God Bless the USA" by Greenwood.
He has also sold digital trading cards that portrayed him in cartoon-like images as a number of characters, including as a superhero, astronaut and NASCAR driver.
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Don’t worry, no Americans need to buy these. Putin will buy all of them —off the books of course. In an unrelated incident, there were reports of a large fire on DJT’s Mar a Lago property next week.