A 1987 sex scandal, followed by a 1988 fraud conviction, may have forced PTL Club hosts and professional grifters Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker from the airwaves, but the old scam artist Jim is back at it with a new wife—television, streaming web videos and live events, spewing his end-times bullshit. And, of course, asking for your cash (he still owes the IRS millions).
Yesterday Bakker hosted a gaggle of like-thinking knuckle-draggers, including Tom Horn, who explained why the Christian Right may have gravitated to the GOP candidate. Apparently they saw something the rest of us missed:
One of Bakker’s guests, Tom Horn, a prolific author of Last Days-themed books, spent an entire segment of the program explaining that “rabbis” have revealed that Trump may be the messiah.
Turns out Trump’s name even means “messiah,” according to the rabbis Horn consulted. I did not know that.
Perhaps it’s Trump’s kindhearted policies toward the poor and immigrants that lead them to the conclusion that he’s the Good Shepherd. Maybe it’s the never-ending charitable work of his foundation, the many ways he treats the sick, or his generous policy of not paying workers. Using Tic-Tacs when he assaults women surely must be at the top of the list, too. But Mr. Horn and his rabbis see other signs:
Among the clues that Trump may be the messiah, he said, is that the president-elect is a kingly and warrior-like leader committed to protecting Israel...
Kingly? Yep, he has a gold pot to poop in. What’s more kingly than that? And warrior-like? Trump received five deferments so he didn’t actually have to serve as a real warrior, but he can sure play a warrior assaulting the defenseless media at his rallies. Or attacking sick people by taking away their healthcare. Semper Fi! (And let’s put aside that “blessed are the peacemakers” crap.)
But, hey, if Trump is not the Lamb of God (who his sons just might shoot), he’s at least a figure akin to John the Baptist, announcing the coming of the Real Dude:
Horn said that if Trump is not the messiah, then he is likely “the forerunner” to the messiah who “will start the message in the wilderness and the messiah is going to come in on his heels.”
Horn says Trump’s inauguration will signal “the countdown” to the messiah’s return, so mark your calendars, because Kellyanne Conway says he’ll show up with a camel that can fit through the eye of a needle.
Donald Trump, Superstar, Do you think you're what they say you are?