President the second greatest.” Trump “re-truthed” it on Truth Social, meaning tens, maybe even hundreds of people saw it.
Just last month, one of the users of Trump’s failing social media/Twitter knockoff wrote, “Jesus is the Greatest. While there’s no evidence that Trump has read the book (he’s not a big reader, some doubt that he’s even read the books he’s “written”), Trump has drawn comparisons to Christ before, including by himself. Vance in Ohio last month, where Trump brought his own peculiar brand of gospel truth, offering that Vance (once a Never-Trumper, now a pretend-disciple) “is kissing my ass.” But he’d read about it in news accounts, as flyers advertising the book started popping up at Trump rallies, like the one he campaigned at on behalf of J.D.
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(#328 on Kindle!)Īlways eager to Make The Messiah Great Again, I plunked down my $17.76, plus tax, and waited for the second coming to arrive. The book was flagged to my attention by a subscriber, Dwight Chappell – a retired Christian educator and missionary to Russia and Ukraine, who doesn’t even believe Trump was a good president, let alone the Son of God. (Outskirts Press guarantees that you too can “publish your book, your way.”) But that hasn’t kept it from garnering 57 customer ratings – average: 1 ½ stars – and ranking #671 in the “Christian commentaries” category. would have to share a marquee with D.J.T. The book was published by Outskirts Press – I guess Zondervan took a pass when learning that J.C. (The all-caps are his.) While it’s something of a major revelation that the writers of the New Testament missed the boat, this is not what publishing types would call a major release. It says so right in the title of Helgard Müller’s new book, President Donald J. Donald John Trump, it turns out, is The Christ. Trump isn’t just a twice-impeached ex-president with a suspicious combover who has a taste for Quarter Pounders and overturning elections. Politics and religion for many, having become indistinguishable. For a good lukewarm Christian like me, it’s a real lapel-grabber. It appears that the subject of it – the same guy who reimagined our politics – is now reimagining our religion. (Though now that the Beavis-and-Buttheadification of America is nearly complete, reading a book is something that 51.5 percent of the country hasn’t done in the past year.) Rather, it’s the book I read that is radical. This is not to suggest reading a book is in itself a radical act. I’m virulently anti-antisemitism. And I’m not just saying that because I’m a member of the media, which, according to Kanye, is controlled by The Jews.īut I did do something rather radical – I read a book.
Neither did I do something truly zany, like reporting for my side hustle as a Shabbos goy in my Kanye line of Yeezy Adidas sneakers.
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