Trump's Message on Easter, 2020

[mahatmakanejeeves]

On the plus side, he spelled "Christ" correctly. I can't recall seeing anything like this come from the White House before.

STATEMENTS & RELEASES

Presidential Message on Easter, 2020

Issued on: April 12, 2020

Melania and I join millions of Christians celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the gift of eternal life this Easter. Although this year’s observance of Easter comes during a somber time for our Nation, we hope all of you are filled with the joy, love, and hope that marks this holiest of days.

{snip}

Together, let us rejoice in knowing that Christ has risen.

{snip}

[gibraltar72]

1. he is a true Christstain.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. You know he didn't write that - it probably came from

one of the fundie prosperity-gospel preachers he's got hanging around the White House.

[dixiechiken1]

7. My first thought, exactly...

No way in freakin' HELL this cretin wrote *that*.

[Kaiserguy]

14. Paula White

it will be followed by a fund raising tweet.

[Doreen]

8. My immediate first thought.

[msongs]

3. "I have sent a deadly plague, go for forth and spread it in my name" - JC nt

[Alliepoo]

4. Hmmmmmm. Wonder who wrote this?

We know it’s waaaaaay too literate for dumpy to have written. Guess someone there in the whitehouse has to pander to his cult with a message like this.

[Blue Owl]

5. Aww, Donny thinks he's going to be an eternal liar/cheater/asshole...

Well I got some news for ya, fucko...

[Ferrets are Cool]

6. Lying hypocrite. AND, he never wrote this...it is too eloquent for his peabrain. nt

[Doreen]

9. 2 things wrong.

It was to mature and it was not turned into a rally.

[monmouth4]

10. He couldn't wish the Jews a Happy Passover? n/t

[mahatmakanejeeves]

11. Trump Promotes Service By Hateful Scamvangelical

Trump Promotes Service By Hateful Scamvangelical
April 11, 2020

The Dallas Morning News reports:

President Donald Trump said Friday that he’ll attend Easter services on Sunday, virtually, along with congregants of Dallas’ First Baptist Church, where his friend and adviser is senior pastor. “I’m going to be watching Pastor Robert Jeffress,” Trump said at his daily coronavirus task force briefing. “He’s been a great guy, and I’m going to be watching on a laptop. Now a laptop is not the same as being in his church or being in another church.”

But he said, like other Americans, he’s avoided crowds for three weeks, and it’s not yet time to return to normal activities. As for Jeffress, he was one of Trump’s earliest and most vocal backers among evangelical Christian leaders in the 2016 campaign. He has been steadfast in defend the president against complaints that his personal morals haven’t always measured up to the standards of religious conservatives.

Jeffress has said that all Jews and Mormons go to hell, that Obama was the precursor to the antichrist, that LGBTs need rescuing from Satan’s deception, that God designed the borders of the United States, that there will be civil war if Trump is removed from office, and that God gave Trump the moral authority to have foreign leaders assassinated. And that’s just a wee taste of his crackpot batshittery.

[monmouth4]

12. TY. n/t

[Midnight Writer]

13. "not the same as being in his church". How the hell would Trump know?

[Karadeniz]

15. I've read Jeffress' understanding of scripture...he doesn't know what he's talking about.

[Rebl2]

16. He didn't write this