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President Donald Trump retweeted a meme claiming Jesus Christ likes him more than Barack Obama. The two-year-old message from a Trump fan called the president heaven sent. Trump responded during another wild night of Twitter rants from Mar-a-Lago with a retweet and a Thank you!
The tweet included a meme of none other than Jesus Christ carrying luggage and apparently returning to America. Obama kicked me out, says Jesus. Trump invited me back.
Trump is focused just now on boosting his bona fides with evangelicals following a scathing editorial earlier this month in Christianity Today.
You can imagine the responses on Twitter when Trump used Jesus as a character reference.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-obama-jesus-christ-meme_n_5e06db0ec5b6b5a713ae5dc0
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,576 posts)Ms. Toad
(33,992 posts)Neither the image not the text suggests how Jesus feels about either one. Jesus could very well be running away from Trump's invitation.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,576 posts)except as bait for the evangelicals. Would Trump want to be the buddy of some poor Jewish carpenter who insisted on feeding the poor, visiting prisoners, healing the sick and welcoming immigrants?
Ms. Toad
(33,992 posts)I was just pointing out that the meme has nothing to do with who Jesus likes.
calimary
(81,085 posts)Jesus would not have had stuff to begin with. He was not Our Lord of the Excess Baggage. He embraced poverty and simplicity, concerned more with the spirit than the material world.
bluestarone
(16,851 posts)Always was and always will be!! Obama is one BILLION times the man tRUMP is
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,576 posts)He's so jealous of Obama that he has to claim that he loves Jesus more than Obama does (which is laughable) or that Jesus liked him (Trump, a serial adulterer, non-stop liar and con man) better than he liked Obama, a practicing Christian who actually seemed to take the teachings of Jesus seriously. Whether Jesus was a real person or the son of God is for believers and non-believers to argue about in the Religion forum, but in this instance Trump has combined his cheap bait for evangelicals with his envy of Obama (envy is one of the seven deadly sins, Donald), and it's particularly sad and stupid.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)bluestarone
(16,851 posts)Evangelicals believing EVERYTHING! What a bunch of dumb-fucks!
MurrayDelph
(5,291 posts)Jesus hung out with the scum and lowlifes, because the truly righteous had less to learn.
keithbvadu2
(36,640 posts)Yeah! Right! The Donald who ridicules Holy Communion and does not need Christ's forgiveness.
TheBlackAdder
(28,163 posts).
The claims of him having an IQ of 156 must mean that Obama's IQ must be 155.
He's so jealous of Obama.
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