Many said they were thrilled to finally see an event that
tied the nation and its government so overtly to Christianity.
I guess they'd be the ones who weren't paying attention in
civics class about the bit in the US Constitution where the Establishment
Clause dictates that "Congress shall make no law respecting an
establishment of religion." This effectively prevents the government from
endorsing, funding, or favoring any specific religion or religion over
non-religion.- WAPO comment
Millions of tax payer dollars spent to attract
thousands of White Christian nationalists. A few close up photos showing many
empty seats, but no long range shots to give us a real idea. "Officials
expect 15,000.." is hardly a real estimate of size. How much did we pay
per cultist and why wasn't the Post outraged at this official
Christian/government event? - WAPO
comment
These people posturing as “holy” completely disregard the
teachings of Jesus. Try reading the beatitudes from the Sermon on the Mount.
Or, how about “love your neighbor as yourself”? - WAPO comment -
You can be forgiven if you missed the news about a prayer rally yesterday morning, transforming a block of the National Mall into an evangelical worship service. Amazingly, it turned out to be a White House led, day-long prayer festival ostensibly for the country’s 250th anniversary.
In any case the mixing of Trump with religion is itself cause for cognitive dissonance. A nation turned over to a power -mad, deranged traitor, grifter, liar and felon - whose only affinity for religion is to manipulate its deluded white followers- cannot be a "celebration." Until Trump’s second term in office, it had been virtually unheard of in modern times for U.S. government officials to publicly tie the nation to a specific set of religious beliefs. So one wonders if the Trumptards ever heard of the Establishment Clause (under the First Amendment) which prevents the government from creating or favoring a national religion.
Matthew Sutton, a historian who recently published “Chosen Land: How Christianity Made America and Americans Remade Christianity,” said Trump’s use of scripture “was Trump at his best and most blasphemous. He takes a verse cherished by evangelicals and offers even more context for it. Except instead of Solomon as the king, Trump here is the king, and instead of the Hebrew temple, it’s Trump’s projects from the East Wing to the arch.” Adding:
“The text even comes with a warning: to defy the king — or the president — is
to defy God.”
In other words, this convicted felon is identifying himself with God, and few of his gathered multitudes appeared to know any better.
“We welcome Trump….err Jesus, into this place!” worship leader
Andy Frank bellowed to no one’s astonishment.
After all, the Orange Fuhrer had already portrayed himself as Jesus:
But this was the latest in a series of Trump regime actions that have energized his deranged, hypocritical evangelical base. Buffoons and low IQ looneytunes wearing t-shirts emblazoned with “Trump is my president and Jesus is my Savior”.
Another moron with red sequined Trump-Jesus jacket quoted in the WaPo bellowed:
“Since Trump came back into office God is giving us a second
chance. We’re in a period of grace.”
Second chance? In what parallel universe? The nation as a whole has been cast into darkness, hate,
insanity and destruction, best articulated by the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz – who
from across the pond can dump the lens of delusion afflicting the Maggats:
German chancellor's America warning: "Don't send your kids there"
Merz sees a country(like many of us American citizens do) unraveling under the weight of corruption,
vulgarity, fanaticism and madness. He sees a republic consumed by spectacle and
poisoned by lies. He sees a political movement that has embraced cruelty as
entertainment and ignorance as identity. He sees a nation where the
institutions of democratic life are mocked, degraded and hollowed out by a
fascist movement led by a man too depraved, too ignorant and too narcissistic
to understand the damage he’s done.
Certainly not the delusional crowd gathered Sunday in the Mall, who pushed their version of White Nationalist Christianity at the center of the American story. Of course this is utter bullshit and a fairy tale. The Founders, as I've noted before, were mainly Deists not Christians. In the words of Joseph Ellis, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author of many books on America’s founding:
“It is a falsification of the meaning of the American Revolution. The idea that the founders saw America as an explicitly Christian nation is nonsensical and “dead wrong'".
But one which Trump’s hard core base embraces with
a preternatural fervor, given the desperation with which they seek to elevate a
proven traitor and felon to sainthood – and even god hood status. But they are
wasting their time because no one with an IQ over room temperature digits buys
it
All one really needs to know regarding Sunday's bogus ritual is that it's all performative, the culmination of a yearslong effort by a powerful cohort in the MAGA movement. At the same time intentional. In order to take the Maggats' minds off their soaring debts from costly gas and groceries they're distracted by the Trump regime’s extensive festivities. It is also clearly a means to drive these hypocrites to the polls for the midterms, so the GOP can hold onto the House and Trump can dodge another impeachment.
So, typical of the conservative White Christians parading on the Mall Sunday, one beheld a reimagined iconography to advance the view that America was founded as a Christian nation. And tied to it, idolization of Dotard Trump - already in the throes of dementia, i.e.
Trump Has TOTAL PSYCHOTIC BREAK & Threatens To NUKE IRAN ON LIVE TV | The Kyle Kulinski Show
How could so many confer power on a convicted felon who also attempted to overthrow an election in 2020? Many forget the self- confessed pussy grabber Trump rose to office promising to give Christianity power, and his rallies increasingly fused evangelical worship and political grievance, as right-wing political activity became a kind of holy act for many of his supporters. In fact, it’s been an act of betrayal of all the principles this nation was founded on, and my Revolutionary War ancestors fought for.
Indeed, Trumpian Christianity is itself an abomination based on a misreading of history, not to mention the use of their maimed gospel citations to justify the killing of innocent school children in a Tehran elementary school. To quote Pope Leo, a real as opposed to a pretend Christian:
The blasphemous comparisons and attributions of Trump's divinity began soon after the attempted assassination in Butler, PA back in July, 2025. Indeed, as soon as Trump did his infamous fist pump, e.g.
It then became emblematic for his presumed "godhood". Thereby a freak happenstance (a lucky last minute head turn) transmuted into his firm belief that "divine providence" rendered him beyond criticism and above the law. Solidifying this lunacy in the brains of his followers and especially the White Nationalist Christian theocrats salivating at making him their new god.
Basically, Sunday's mock Xtian 'prayer rally" was another illustration of how deranged the country itself has become losing its moral compass.
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by Matthew Rozsa | May 18, 2026 - 5:00am | permalink
In yet another sign that President Donald Trump is losing support from many in his own base, a three-time Trump voter called C-SPAN on Saturday to say that he regretted voting for a man he described as America’s “worst” president.
“It’s hard for me to say this,” the caller, who only identified himself as Thomas from Hawaii, explained. “I wanted to believe Trump was the real deal for a long time.”
Thomas added that, although he had doubts because of Trump’s controversial business history, he set aside those reservations and voted for him anyway.
“Now I regret my support for him and I should’ve known better,” Thomas explained. Describing Trump as “a con man, a liar” and someone who does not “keep his promises,” Thomas added that “he’s in office all for himself and he doesn’t even try to hide his corruption anymore.”
And:
by Amanda Marcotte | May 18, 2026 - 4:49am | permalink
“I believe wholeheartedly that you can’t force revival,” Lucas Miles declares in his stump speech for the Make Heaven Crowded tour. Miles is the director of TPUSA Faith, a spinoff of the late MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA organization, that is dedicated to equipping Christians “who are prepared to defend our God-given rights.” And he’s been on the road this spring and summer, insisting to one audience after another that he does not believe you can “manufacture a revival.”
The irony of this is thick — manufacturing a revival is exactly what Miles is trying to do. The Make Heaven Crowded tour, Miles explains to congregations and the press along the way, was started after a late September memorial service for Kirk, who was killed by a gunman’s bullet earlier that month. At the time of Kirk’s death, Miles had been serving as director of TPUSA Faith for 18 months after serving as the pastor of Nfluence, an Indiana church whose name sounds more like a bad tech startup than a Christian congregation. Miles called the memorial, which was held at the State Farm Stadium outside of Phoenix, Arizona, “the most significant gospel presentation in the history of Christendom,” insisting that 170,000 people showed up and “almost a billion” watched it.
And:
The Sad and Sorry Spectacle Of Evangelicals All Too Willing To Be Trump's Lapdogs
And:
by Robert Reich | May 17, 2026 - 5:12am | permalink
— from Robert Reich's Substack
Friends,
My first quote of the week comes from Trump on Air Force One, on his way back from Beijing on Friday — telling David Sanger of The New York Times:
“I had a total military victory. But the fake news, guys like you, write incorrectly. You’re a fake guy. We had a total military victory. I actually think it’s sort of treasonous what you write. You should be ashamed of yourself. I actually think it’s treason.”
Note Trump’s use of the pronoun “I.” He didn’t say “we” had a military victory. Trump’s malignant narcissism is worsening.
Also take note of his blatant lie. His war in Iran has been anything but a victory. His delusions and deceptions about the war are escalating.
And:
Opinion | The Pope Bedevils Trump - The New York Times
Excerpt:
President Trump has been rampaging around the globe like Grendel at dinner time, a rapacious, feral creature. Who could stand up to him?
The soft-spoken, humble Leo, who strives to unify, squared off against the bombastic, solipsistic Trump, who strives to divide. And watching the saintly pope school the amoral president is a blessed sight.
On Easter Sunday, Trump blasted out one of his assorted threats to destroy Iranian civilization, crudely appending the phrase “Praise be to Allah.” Leo called the existential extortion “truly unacceptable,” a transgression against moral law.
Trump escalated. He posted a meme of himself as a Jesus-like figure healing a sick man and he attacked the Holy Father on social media with sinful aspersions, saying the pope is “WEAK on crime” and “I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon.”
Leo, who’s Chicago-tough, hasn’t backed down. On X, he said: “God does not bless any conflict. Anyone who is a disciple of Christ, the Prince of Peace, is never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs.”
He reminded the authoritarian, Strangelovian president that he should be promoting peace through dialogue and multilateralism.
“Too many people are suffering today, too many innocent people have been killed,” Leo told reporters, “and I believe someone must stand up and say that there is a better way.”
In a puerile fit of apparent retribution on Thursday, Trump canceled an $11 million federal contract with Catholic Charities in Miami to house and feed migrant children coming to America alone. (Even my Trump-indulging sister found that disgusting.)
It’s hard for the president to give the pope the respect that he deserves because Trump clearly thinks that he’s the Messiah.
And:
Pope Leo Continues Feud with Trump: 'World Being Ravaged by Tyrants'
And:
Opinion | Trump Needs to Get Over the Pope - The New York Times
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