Trump to evangelicals: We're 'under siege,' will be stronger

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump sought comfort in the figurative embrace of his evangelical supporters Thursday as the FBI director he recently fired told Congress about their conversations, telling a religious gathering that they are "under siege" but will emerge "bigger and better and stronger than ever."

Trump made no reference to Comey in his remarks to the Faith and Freedom Coalition's annual gathering. But hours before the president arrived to make his first public comments of the day, Comey told the Senate intelligence committee that Trump tried to get him to pledge loyalty and drop an investigation into potential collusion between Russia and Trump's campaign.

Trump abruptly fired Comey on May 9. A private attorney for Trump said the president never asked Comey to stop investigating anyone.

In his remarks to the conference, Trump pledged to always support the right of evangelicals to follow their faith, which some conservatives believe is under attack by government.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-to-evangelicals-were-under-siege-will-be-stronger/ar-BBCjGWV?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=edgsp

[luvMIdog]

1. he's reprehensible. Everything he says is a dog whistle to society's militant whack jobs

When you say you are 'under siege ' you are asking for outside help. But of course he's never been in a REAL battle in his life he just likes to appeal to nutty militant types.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. You kidding? Under siege from whom?

Anyone who ISN'T an evangelical including mainstream Protestant churches, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, secularists, etc.?

More accurate: Evangelicals and Dominionists are laying siege on the American democracy to convert it to a theocracy in their image.

[C_U_L8R]

3. Fundies fall for that line over and over

Usually it precedes the frogmarching of their pastor for buggery or tax evasion or...

[Lars39]

4. Cult language

[trueblue2007]

5. Trump is the Anti-Christ !!!!!

he is sucking up to the evangelical people.

[bdamomma]

6. His poll numbers

are so low he is crawling looking for supporters, and those who small minded will follow this con man.

[MyOwnPeace]

7. Why didn't the evangelicals..........

plan to have a worship service some Sunday morning at Mar-Lago just before Orange Cheat-o has his tee time? (he'll be in a foursome with 2 Corinthians and Chris Christie!).

Yeah, like that would ever happen........................

[Sculpin Beauregard]

9. LOL. Don't forget Pence in leather & ball gag.

[MyOwnPeace]

10. EWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gonna' take me a while to get rid of THAT visual!!!!

[liberal N proud]

8. Evangelicals to trump, yes master

They just eat up whatever they are told.

[WinkyDink]

11. Projection #362: Democrats "are bad right now for the country." Perhaps not even people?

[Docreed2003]

12. What an absolute fucking sycophant

He no more cares about any evangelical cause than the man in the moon. He's brazenly trying to stir up these fucktarded evangelical voters and dazzle them yet again with his bullshit in the hopes that he can hold on to his reigns of power. I cannot wait to see this asshole's smug smile wiped right off his fucking hypocritical, nasty, bigoted, hateful face...

[Freethinker65]

13. "We??????" Hahahahaha

[bmbmd]

14. Sooner or later,

there may be someone from the religious right who will stake the claim that Pence was God's man all along, and that Trump was the only device to get him to the presidency. They'll turn on Trump, and welcome the chosen one.

[smirkymonkey]

15. They are all so fucking stupid!

How can anyone believe that Trump is a religious man? What idiots!

[mhw]

16. Trump grasps at cool one-liners & turns to 'Christians' for survival!

#14-grid1



#0-grid1

[peggysue2]

17. The Evangelical mystery

I don't get it. This is a man who is diametrically opposed to every real Christian value--love, acceptance, forgiveness--and yet the so-called super-Christian community eats the man's lies as if they were manna. Yes, he aligns himself with their misplaced victimhood (the under siege meme) but he claims to be a Presbyterian, yet recently asked a group of Presbyterian ministers if they were Christian.

Really???

This is the sort of ignoramus question my grandmother, an Irish Catholic complained about. Neighbors asking her if she were a real Christian.

Ignorance is bliss. For the ignorant, that is.

There's gullibility, and then there's ignorance that defies all definition. But that appears to be the Universe we're living in.