BREAK IT DOWN!
Americans are known for many things. One of the issues front and center at this moment in time is, being led by a President who derives his power and popularity from the populist, so-called MAGA Movement and from the religious fervor and loyalty of evangelicals. The two groups, while not aligned on every issue tend to have one thing about which they are virtually always joined at the hip: their support of Trump.
Republicans in general, and evangelicals in particular revel in the assertion of their right to be heard, as Christians, and to have free and unfettered expression and practice of their religion. They are passionate, fervent, and relentless in demanding the right to have everyone respect their religious views.
This past Sunday was Easter, widely acknowledged as one of, if not the holiest of days in all of Christianity. In America, and across the world, wherever Christians abide, believers, parishioners, and worshippers gather on Easter Sunday to commemorate the Crucifixion and three days later, the Resurrection of the Savior.
It is in that light that we reflect upon the irony of what could loosely be called the President’s Easter Messge.
On Easter Sunday morning, someone who shall not be named posted the following message on the President’s social media account, Truth Social, signed, or signed off on by the President:
“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.”
Put aside the president’s uninhibited, if not unhinged, rhetorical flourishes; the very idea of attacking civilian infrastructure such as power plants and bridges is generally considered under the rubric of war crimes by international law experts.
But wait, it’s Easter. How could Christians, particularly otherwise enthusiastically pious evangelicals, overlook the crass nature of the vulgar, profanity-laced language of Trump’s message?
Oddly, two well-known (not to mention millions of no so well known) evangelicals did just that. Franklin Graham, son of Billy, and Robert Jeffress, not only refused to denounce Trump, they actually praised him. Graham actually compared Trump to Esther in the Bible, sent to save the Jews, as he simultaneously cast the entire Iranian government as Islamic lunatics.
I’m not at all certain the government in Iran is comprised of lunatics. Trump himself has claimed he killed all the lunatics. He said Monday that there has been regime change in Iran, and that the current government functionaries are smarter, sharper, and far less radical. Which is it, Franklin? Whom Should I believe; you or Trump? “Redefining the Easter Message in the Trump Era!”
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