Stalin
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no "enemy" of the US would want to take out frump - he is doing a fine job of making and nakedly demonstrating the US as a rogue state
They had come to say a prayer for the father, the son and the holy ghost.
The father was Donald Trump, who, despite sending federal militias to roam Minneapolis, threatening to invade Greenland and telling lies by the dozen, remains the lord and saviour of the religious right.
The son was his protege, Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, who, despite documented human rights violations and mass detentions that swept up 3,000 children, was praised by a congressman for leadership that displays “character” and “conscience”.
And the holy ghost was the Republican party’s moral spine, now reduced to a phantom thread. “The power of Trump compels you!” as The Exorcist nearly said.
They had gathered on Thursday in the cavernous ballroom of the Washington Hilton hotel for the National Prayer Breakfast, an annual event where past speakers have included Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Bono, Tony Blair and Bryan Stevenson of the Equal Justice Initiative.
Trump, of course, can be relied upon to make it feel less a church sermon than a knockabout campaign rally. “Good God!” and “Jesus Christ!” are more likely to be exclamations from horrified onlookers than earnest pronouncements from the truly faithful.
In a somewhat slurry tone, the US president, wearing dark suit and purple tie, went on a rhetorical tour of his greatest hits that had nothing to do with either prayer or breakfast. There was the swipe at “transgender insanity”, a rant against bird-killing wind farms, an account of Greenland as “the biggest piece of ice in the world” and a boast that “we have a military where they all look like Tom Cruise only bigger”.
There were insults too. Thomas Massie, the Republican representative of Kentucky, was dismissed as a “*****”, and there was the eternal dilemma of whether to call Trump’s predecessor “Joe Biden” or “Crooked Joe”. Trump described Barack Obama as “divisive” yet also observed: “I don’t know how a person of faith can vote for a Democrat.”
There was the obligatory lie that the 2020 election was “rigged” and some crowing about 2024: “I had to win it. I needed it for my own ego. I would have had a bad ego for the rest of my life. Now I really have a big ego. Beating these lunatics was incredible.”
There was also a glimpse into Trump’s sleeping habits. Recalling a past trip to Iraq during his first term, he mused: “I don’t sleep on planes. I don’t like sleeping on planes. You know, I like looking out the window watching for missiles and enemies, actually.”
www.theguardian.com
comrade stalin
moscow
They had come to say a prayer for the father, the son and the holy ghost.
The father was Donald Trump, who, despite sending federal militias to roam Minneapolis, threatening to invade Greenland and telling lies by the dozen, remains the lord and saviour of the religious right.
The son was his protege, Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, who, despite documented human rights violations and mass detentions that swept up 3,000 children, was praised by a congressman for leadership that displays “character” and “conscience”.
And the holy ghost was the Republican party’s moral spine, now reduced to a phantom thread. “The power of Trump compels you!” as The Exorcist nearly said.
They had gathered on Thursday in the cavernous ballroom of the Washington Hilton hotel for the National Prayer Breakfast, an annual event where past speakers have included Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Bono, Tony Blair and Bryan Stevenson of the Equal Justice Initiative.
Trump, of course, can be relied upon to make it feel less a church sermon than a knockabout campaign rally. “Good God!” and “Jesus Christ!” are more likely to be exclamations from horrified onlookers than earnest pronouncements from the truly faithful.
In a somewhat slurry tone, the US president, wearing dark suit and purple tie, went on a rhetorical tour of his greatest hits that had nothing to do with either prayer or breakfast. There was the swipe at “transgender insanity”, a rant against bird-killing wind farms, an account of Greenland as “the biggest piece of ice in the world” and a boast that “we have a military where they all look like Tom Cruise only bigger”.
There were insults too. Thomas Massie, the Republican representative of Kentucky, was dismissed as a “*****”, and there was the eternal dilemma of whether to call Trump’s predecessor “Joe Biden” or “Crooked Joe”. Trump described Barack Obama as “divisive” yet also observed: “I don’t know how a person of faith can vote for a Democrat.”
There was the obligatory lie that the 2020 election was “rigged” and some crowing about 2024: “I had to win it. I needed it for my own ego. I would have had a bad ego for the rest of my life. Now I really have a big ego. Beating these lunatics was incredible.”
There was also a glimpse into Trump’s sleeping habits. Recalling a past trip to Iraq during his first term, he mused: “I don’t sleep on planes. I don’t like sleeping on planes. You know, I like looking out the window watching for missiles and enemies, actually.”
The way, the Trump and the lies: prayer breakfast displays US right’s devil’s pact
Trump might not embody Christian values yet is the religious right’s chosen instrument to turn the tide against liberal, godless America
comrade stalin
moscow
