Let the annals of this nation present it was the homicide of a Jewish couple on the primary evening of Hanukkah that confirmed how profoundly un-Christian Donald J. Trump is as soon as and for all.
The prosecution rests, and there can no rebuttal: We’re a nation led by President Meathead.
Besides not like the character of the identical title famously performed by Rob Reiner in “All Within the Household,” our Meathead in chief lacks any sense of ethical decency.
The weekend noticed the tragic deaths of Hollywood legend Reiner and his spouse, Michele. Their son, Nick Reiner, is at the moment in jail with out bond and is going through homicide costs. Regular folks mourned the lack of a pair who delighted and improved the world with their inventive and political work whereas attempting to free Nick from the ravages of drug abuse and psychological sickness for many of his grownup life.
Our president, after all, shouldn’t be regular. He’s a weirdo who will get off on being imply. If there was a CruelHub, he’d be on it day by day.
And so forth the day after Romy Reiner discovered her dad and mom’ our bodies at their Brentwood house, Trump posted on social media that they died not on account of stab wounds however “reportedly as a result of anger [Rob] brought on others by way of his large, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a thoughts crippling illness often known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME.”
The president doubled down on his crocodile tears to reporters on the Oval Workplace the day after, claiming Reiner “was very dangerous for our nation” with out providing any proof and describing the director of big-hearted movie classics like “When Harry Met Sally…” and “The Princess Bride” as “deranged.”
We’re in the midst of the vacation season, a time when folks historically decelerate their lives to take inventory of their blessings throughout the coldest and darkest time of the yr and attempt to unfold cheer to buddies and strangers alike.
However goodwill is just unattainable for Trump. The place a second requires grace, he provides moral filth. When tragedies encourage charity within the hearts of excellent folks, the president makes it about himself.
Whereas Trump demanded all Individuals converse no ailing of Charlie Kirk within the wake of his assassination, he invited all to ridicule Reiner, whose obvious sin was criticizing our eminently criticizable president.
Whereas everyone seems to be rightfully specializing in the ugly assaults Trump launched towards Reiner and his spouse, additionally telling in regards to the president’s soul was the handle he gave at a White Home reception marking Christmas and the beginning of Hanukkah hours earlier than information broke of the Reiners’ homicide.
Earlier that day, two gunmen killed 15 individuals who had been celebrating Hanukkah at Bondi Seaside close to Sydney, Australia, in what authorities are describing as an antisemitic assault. The evening earlier than, somebody killed two folks at Brown College in a case that’s but to be solved.
Trump supplied lip service to these massacres earlier than turning to the explanation for the season:
Trump.
Actor, author, director, producer and activist Rob Reiner photographed at his house in Brentwood in 2017.
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He insulted his predecessor, Joe Biden, and claimed his disastrous tariffs had been paying off. He introduced up Bryson DeChambeau so the U.S. Open golf champion might gush about how the president was a “nice golfer [and] higher human being.” The president plugged his deliberate arch for the nation’s capital that he claimed will “blow … away” the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. He bragged about successful over Latinos throughout the 2024 election — with out mentioning that’s he’s already shedding them, quick — and blasted the “faux information” for not appreciating the Christmas decorations of First Girl Melania Trump.
You’d suppose Trump was working for president once more as an alternative of marking two vital spiritual holidays. However Trump was being religious in a way: he was training his true religion, which is smite.
The phrase and its conjugates seem a whole lot of instances within the Outdated Testomony, spoken by an admittedly “jealous” God as he instructs the Israelites on methods to deal with their enemies, or used as a menace towards the Israelites in the event that they stray from his instructions.
If Trump and his henchmen and henchwomen ever learn the Bible, you would possibly properly guess they learn solely the elements that concerned smiting.
Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth — he of the medieval cross chest tattoo — continues to play Solomon as he authorizes the bombing of boats off the coasts of South America that he insists are carrying medication whereas providing no justification aside from his will that or not it’s finished. Immigration brokers indiscriminately choose up residents and noncitizens alike in pursuit of remigration, the far-right motion to make minority teams return to their ancestral nations within the title of white makes proper.
Twice, the Division of Homeland Safety has invoked the E book of Isaiah in social media campaigns to justify its scorched-earth method to booting folks from the nation. Particularly, they’ve cited a verse the place the prophet tells God “Right here I’m, ship me” as Yahweh requires a messenger to warn heretics of the hell he’ll rain down on them until they repent. The latest clip starred Border Patrol commander at giant Gregory Bovino, he who has unfold Trump’s fire-and-brimstone gospel of deportation.
Smiting and annihilation are the Gospel of Trump and so they do play an enormous position within the Bible. However their final redemption for Christians is what we’re gearing as much as have fun subsequent week: the delivery of Christ, the Son of God who got here to the world to evangelise one ought to love thy enemy, bless the meek, surrender wealth and an entire bunch of different woke stuff.
Trump will not be the literal anti-Christ, however Trump certain is anti-Christian. He stands for and embodies every thing that Jesus decried.
Increasingly more Christian thought leaders are beginning to perceive this about Trump the extra he rages. Within the wake of Trump’s egocentric sliming of the Reiners, Christianity At present editor at giant Russell Moore slammed his “vile, disgusting, and immoral habits” whereas conservative commentator and longtime Trump apologist Rod Dreher wrote “one thing could be very, very improper with this man.”
That’s a begin. However extra evangelical Christians, 80% of whom voted for him within the 2024 election, must lastly repent of blindly supporting him. They, greater than every other group, have excused Trump’s sins.
They usually examine him to main figures from the Bible and Christian heroes from the previous — King David, Cyrus the Nice, Constantine — who had been imperfect however nonetheless did God’s will.
That’s laughable. This man isn’t simply imperfect. We’re all that.
No, Trump is greater than imperfect. He’s a throbbing mass of malevolence, turned up — to reference Reiner’s “This Is Spinal Faucet” — to 11.
