Former President Donald Trump’s latest venture selling Bibles has sparked the fury of Christians.
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.
But the move has sparked the ire of Christians.
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.
Totally normal.
Weird, it skips right from the 13th amendment to the 15th in this version. And I can’t find the emoluments clause anywhere.
“The right to vote for Trump shall not be denied or abridged…”
Wait, is that right?
Yes, that’s right after “Thou shalt not judge thy neighbor for raw dogging porn stars behind your pregnant wife’s back”
The “King Trump Bible” it came to be known…
All things they’ve never read, or will ever read, after they purchase them.
“the only Bible endorsed by President Trump!”
So has never endorsed the Bible until he was selling one?
christians have loved what trump has done. but selling bibles is their limit? pathetic.
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’m just relieved there is a limit
It’s not a limit. It’s manufactured outrage. If they supported him prior to now, 99% of them will support him until the end.
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.
So called “liberal Christians” just enable the fascist ones.
ACAB.
How?
Limit? No, trigger.
Please pass the popcorn.
……but will vote for him anyway.
Because what else can they do?
Stop being religious ideally
Will somebody please think of the children!!?
False prophet laundering false profits
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Blasphemous Grift is my favorite band name since One Punch Manslaughter
I hear they’re opening the show for my favorite band, Covfefe!
Never heard of 'em.
No, that’s not how this works. You carried the golden calf to term and gave birth to it. Own it you two faced hypocrites.
Then they’ll use it to bludgeon the rest of us.
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.
Cheeto smegma is something I don’t ever want to read again.
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.
I don’t believe it, other than a handful. If there’s a study I might be interested, some random people on social media… eh.
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.
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What he should start selling is little golden statues of himself. That’d be pretty biblical lol
There’s already a prototype, and not a whiff of irony.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/27/golden-trump-statue-mexico-cpac
Combination of church and state
Yeah sure. Maybe the Christians that didn’t already love him.
They didn’t give a shit last week when he compared himself to Jesus. They won’t care about this.
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.
Fuck the lot of em
This is the best summary I could come up with:
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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