Trumping the Message of Jesus

I HAVE BEEN AWARE of Donald Trump for about, oh...what...forty five years, give or take a day or two. My mother, bless her heart, was an otherwise intelligent woman who often brought home "The National Enquirer" because, as she said, she just couldn't help herself. Sometimes those lines at the grocery store were long, especially back in the day, as we say, when actual human beings worked the cash registers. Trump was often on the cover of scandal sheets in the seventies, as I recall, probably even more often now, although I would have no way of knowing, since my mother is no longer living. The headlines and articles were always of the glamorous glittery kind, as I recall, always had something to do with Donald's latest trophy date, trophy girlfriend, or trophy wife, and always seemed to feature him saying something about how totally terrific his new casino was going to be, how rich he was, and how much richer he would soon be. In 1974 or so, he and his daddy were busted by the feds for violations of the Fair Housing Act, quietly avoiding renting properties to people "of color", as we say, they paid off Nixon's Attorney General, not once, but twice. The feds noticed a peculiar lily whiteness to Trump's rental properties, looked around, and found a discarded stack of rental applications all with the letter "C" (for "colored") in the upper right corner, and had their case. It was quite obvious to any perceptive person, quite early and often, that whoever else Donald Trump might be remindful of, Jesus Christ was not among them. Every word and deed, without exception, perpetrted by Donald J. Trump has been and still is distinctly not-christ-like. Equally obvious, to this day, is that Donald Trump not only is not reminful of christ, but is, in every conceivable way, the exact opposite of the Prince of peace. and yet, when he ran for president, and to this day, he was and is popular among and supported by more than eighty percent of fundamentalist conservative evangelical christians. And that is my beef, the reaosn why I despise Christains who support Trump. This oft heard argument that God moves in mysteriouis ways, and often elevates reprobates to positios of power and influence, is pure, unmitigated poppy cock. Stipulating that God used to do that (David, Soloman, and Peter come to mind), that was then, and this is now. Trump was elected by the American people, people of the Christian kind, and those people, not God, voted.