Prayers and fasting for former President Donald Trump as he deals with his 34-count guilty verdict by a New York City jury for falsifying monetary business records specifically to cover up his tryst with a porn star misses the point. Trump has never been one to pray to God, though he accepts like a con man the fervent sincere prayers of his tens of millions of believers. Trump has never declared himself religious or spiritual. He plays to the crowd, not unlike his 1980s’ predecessor Ronald Reagan, knowing that in modern times conservative Christians are more likely to vote Republican than Democratic.
What I hate to see over and over again is Trump’s followers dragging Jesus into the mire with Trump, making Trump out to be a Christ figure. Trump is more anti-Christ than any President I know, and those who still choose to believe Trump over truth and justice are lost. God help ’em.
The same crowd, estimated to be a third to half of all Americans, will never proclaim a loud Facebook prayer for Jews, Palestinians, Ukrainians, Russians or even devout lifelong practicing Catholic U.S. President Joe Biden.
NO. The only person on earth that Trumpers care about is Trump. And they’re hoping for some ‘miracle’ that he returns to his throne in 2025.
The reposted memes twisting Jesus Christ with Trump proclaim:
Jesus was convicted in a sham trial … and crucified. I still follow him.
I AM MORE MAGA THAN EVER.
Pray for this man. He’s fighting an evil that we can’t even imagine!
And there are the visual imageries of an ethereal Jesus Christ with his hands on the shoulders of Donald Trump as if comforting him during his moment of sorrow—as if Trump is the presidential choice of Jesus Christ.
He’s not.
U.S. Presidents have no secrets
That’s because THEY’RE WORLD LEADERS IN A FREE SOCIETY WITH A FREE PRESS. Not to be vulgar, but every little thing about a U.S. President will be found out, made public, investigated, studied, analyzed and scrutinized for centuries. That’s the way it is and has always been like it or not.
It’s a BIG reason why most Americans will never run for any public office let alone U.S. President. And those who do run for top office, still 99% men, often get in trouble when their skeletons come tumbling out of their closets. Remember Gary Hart? John Edwards? Heck, even President Bill Clinton’s private sex life was displayed thoroughly on the World Wide Web now known as the internet. And he was President at the time, serving two terms, impeached for lying about an affair with a White House intern, and managed to remain in office. Congress didn’t have the votes to remove him. And the presidential hopefuls and President with found-out secrets were all Democrats.
So don’t tell me that Trump—former Democrat then Independent then Republican and now MAGA far-right Republican—is being set up by our nation’s Deep State. Trump is not an X File. The only government entities dealing with him are prosecutors and judges—and this because they have to; it’s their job. Like the FBI went after Hillary Clinton a couple of weeks before the 2016 election when she was the Democrat running for President. G-men cut both ways regardless of political affiliation.
Back to America’s Gospel Hour, Trump once proclaimed that he’s so popular, he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and never be prosecuted. Why would anyone running for U.S. President say he can kill a person and get away with it? That was crazy enough. But Trump is nonstop crazy talk. After his guilty verdicts, one of sexual assault and now falsifying business records to tilt the 2016 presidential election in his favor, he claimed the government (his government, our government) is out to get him.
Look, if Trump had never run for the highest office in the land, his many sordid secrets could very well have remained buried. But as he aged, his ego would not let him sit back and yap about how he could ‘turn this country around’ if he were President. So he had to go for it. He worked the populist method: stirring up s*&^ and blaming immigrants and minorities (nonwhites) and nonChristians for our nation’s problems. Then he gets elected, and what’s the first thing he does but give our country’s richest a massive tax cut lasting from here to eternity. Wow. Talk about helping the disenfranchised and downtrodden.
But that’s always been the Democrats’ goal when in power. And ironically, that goal of helping the majority of Americans, middle class to poor, relates to following Jesus Christ and true religious and spiritual teachings.
That’s how we the people can judge those who want to be and become U.S. President.
But our free democracy comes with a tragic flaw: The people have to believe in our country and its President—prioritized in order: after God, family, and our own minds.