The Fat(ted) Calf

      He literally had to phone it in.

      A gold-plated statue of Trump was unveiled at his Doral golf club in Miami. He's currently, as usual, at his Mar a Lago golf club in Palm Beach, not too far from Miami. Yet, when they unveiled the monstrosity, Trump couldn't be bothered to attend.and instead literally phoned it in. He sounded tired and disinterested, quickly veering offtopic to say that Iran wasn't doing very well (despite them holding their own against us and Israel).

     It's unclear who paid for this gaudy statue but it was dedicated by one of Trump's pet pastors. The pose more than suggests it was the moment Trump pumped his fist at Butler, Pennsylvania after getting "shot" in his left ear by Thomas Crooks. It was the infamous, "Fight, fight, fight!" moment, when the Secret Service inexplicably let him preen for the cameras instead of hustling him out of there.

     What, no red paint to simulate blood from his right ear to his big mouth? And what the fuck is with the blue sash? Is that his diaper unraveling?

 

     And why were so many religious "leaders" there clapping like seals? Have they forgotten that in the Bible's 73 books, at least four of them warn us about worshiping graven, golden idols. Golden calf, anyone? That's in Exodus 32:4  and 5.

     Even Saddam didn't pull this shit.

     As if comparing himself to a king or even Jesus himself isn't enough of a blasphemy, now we have a demented autocrat putting up gold statues in his own honor. And it shouldn't alarm those of us in the reality-based community that these evangelical nut jobs overlook this shit and yet, it alarms me and it should you.

     Beyond pretense and photo ops (like in front of St. John's in 2020), Trump has never displayed the slightest inclination to religion or any spirituality. I think I stand on pretty solid ground when I say Trump has never once read the Bible in his sociopathic life. Note that he never put his hand on the Bible during his own swearing in ceremony January last year, as if he feared it would burst into flames.

     It's not enough to say that they pretend to adore Trump just because he gives them whatever they want. Their adoration seems pretty fucking sincere. To them, there is no red line that Trump can cross. Here's a guy who had five kids with three different women, was married three times, cheated on every single one of them, was credibly accused of rape and sexual assault by 26 women, was judged to have raped one of them and was mentioned in the Epstein files over 1,000,000 times.

     He is a monster who has violated every one of Jesus' teachings in the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and the Sermon on the Mount. He has done everything in his power to make the lives of people all over the world as miserable as possible. He has killed countless people all over the world in violation of the Ten Commandments (and violating the other nine) and every year without fail has made a mockery of the National Prayer Breakfast by whining with his grievances.

     What is there to worship about him? I don't know and never will but if their unyielding fealty to Trump isn't an indictment on modern day American Christianity, then it ought to be.