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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump accidentally tweeted an insult at a pastor. Here's how the pastor responded.
The Rev. Jonathan Carl glanced at Twitter and laughed out loud in disbelief.
The president of the United States had just tweeted at him, a Baptist pastor in Kentucky who up until now hadnt had any reason to be the subject of national attention. And President Trump was, online, in public, out of the blue, insulting him.
The president had mixed up Jonathan Carl, the Kentucky minister with fewer than 375 Twitter followers, with Jonathan Karl, the ABC News reporter whose journalism had ruffled the feathers of the commander in chief.
Carls laughter soon turned into concern. Trump had called Carl a lightweight reporter. And some of Trumps ardent fans werent happy with Jonathan Carl not realizing that he wasnt Jonathan Karl.
The drive-by tweet brought on intense vitriol and hatred, Carl said. He was suddenly experiencing what many of Trumps intended Twitter targets go through almost daily: a barrage of infuriated tweets from Trumps followers.
The pastor stopped laughing. And on Monday, a week after his evening as a sudden Twitter target, he published an open letter to Trump.
Although I was an accidental casualty caught in the cross-fire of your lightweight tweet, your attack was very purposeful and hurtful. Many others, whether American citizens or global citizens, feel wounded and hurt by the shrapnel and side-effects of your ongoing Twitter attacks, Carl wrote in his letter.
He hurled the same insult back at Trump that Trump had mistakenly leveled at him but then turned it into a theological point. Lets be honest, you are a lightweight too, Carl wrote. We all are. God is the only heavyweight who knows it all and gets it right all the time.
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Trump accidentally tweeted an insult at a pastor. Here's how the pastor responded. (Original Post)
mfcorey1
Sep 2019
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(13,593 posts)1. "God is the only heavyweight who knows it all and gets it right all the time"
I guess the pastor didn't get the memo. Trump IS god!
patricia92243
(12,595 posts)2. I assume he was a Trump-lover until the hatered was directed at him. Then
it wasn't so fun.