Saints preserve us! For just $59.99 (plus tax and shipping), you can proudly shelve (perchance to read) your copy of the King Donald edition of the King James Holy Writ (including “Two Corinthians!”). At no extra cost, you’ll receive the effectively Trump-shredded US Constitution!
Not to forget: his version of our Supreme Law empowers him to do, “as President…, whatever” he may wish. (Wow!)
Plus, you get a bonus! His Holy Week Special Package includes the Pledge of Allegiance- to the “one nation” he has striven to prove far from “indivisible!”
As for the main item, he dubs it the “God Bless the USA Bible.” Funny thing, though. The words to the hit song to which he tags it feature a paean to all Americans knowing they’re “free.” Nice. Trouble is, Trump’s pitch for his own pricey Scripture dictates (yes, as in dictator) “We MUST make America pray again” (emphasis added).
Wait. Who comprises “We?” Is it the royal “We” (for Trump writ large)? Is it his fiercely despotic, grossly un-American cult of personality? Or (forgive my contumely) what the hell?
Let it be stressed. Said Supreme Law effectively forbids ANYONE invoking a Supreme (or other religious) Being to coerce any American to do ANYTHING. (Even, or especially, pray.)
Small world. Days before Trump’s Good Book fandango began, I shelled out $2.43 (tax and shipping included) for a secondhand New International (not King James and/or King Donald) version. To my eye, its cover (though not its price) looks a lot like Trump’s.
In mine (and presumably in his), dedicated verses in Exodus and in Deuteronomy specifically forbid adultery. Hello. Not only does Stormy Daniels credibly recall an episode of extramarital extravagance on his part; he stands indicted for bribing her to keep the body politic in the dark regarding his sin. (Sad.)
So. Six ways to Sunday, this indecent, despotic, vengeful, grotesquely theocratic, potty-mouthed, self-deifying, “depraved” (quoting Liz Cheney) foreign substance aims to “make” us kneel to him (and pray to God).
To highest heaven, that stinks. Let us pray that we (the decent, non-despotic majority) can stop him; above all, let’s steel ourselves to do all that may take.
Now as ever, the Lord helps those who help themselves. Withal, Happy Good Friday. Happy Easter. And Happy Democracy (if we can keep it).