Donald Trump says something awful, stupid, or both every day because Donald Trump is utterly reprehensible. It’s natural for liberals to want to highlight these things. Sometimes it’s to remind people you know “yes, you actually voted for this asshole”, sometimes as a call to action, and sometimes just for comic relief.
To keep it short, Donald Trump said at the National Prayer Breakfast that he was praying for Arnold Schwarzeneggar, the successor host to the Celebrity Apprentice, because the “show had gone down the tubes.” That’s Trump for you, ratings are everything, and if his regime ends in a nuclear holocaust he’ll surely mention what good ratings covering the end of the world will bring.
Schwarzeneggar responded to Trump, annoyed that he was running his mouth like he always does, people have been talking about it and we have a story: Essentially, the story is that Trump acted immature and disgraceful at the National Prayer Breakfast which is supposed to be a somber/professional/serious/important event.
It would be a mistake to spread that perspective. See, the National Prayer Breakfast is a disgrace in and of itself. It is organized by a group variously known as “the Fellowship” or “the Family”, wealthy, fundamentalist Christians who wield enormous influence in Congress. But they do a lot more than make our government push their agenda, they take their Christian jihad worldwide and it can end in bloodshed. This group is the mastermind behind Uganda’s “kill the gays” law which sparked international outcry some years ago. That’s right, if you didn’t know — rich Americans went to Uganda and convinced their government that homosexuality should be punished by death.
So don’t be so eager to mock Trump (although he certainly deserves it, don’t construe any of this as me defending our Cheeto-skinned dictator) that you accidentally give undue deference to the National Prayer Breakfast and the dangerous cult behind it. If Trump had unzipped his pants and urinated on the tables, he could not have made this event more disgraceful than it already is.
For more information on the cult that runs the prayer breakfast, there are two books by an excellent investigative journalist named Jeff Sharlet — C-Street and The Family.