Donald Trump enthusiastically endorsed displaying the Ten Commandments in colleges (finish elsewhere) over the weekend, regardless of fairly famously violating no less than 4 of the mentioned 10, and one one among them actually 1000’s of instances. On Reality Social, he told his followers: “I LOVE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, PRIVATE SCHOOLS, AND MANY OTHER PLACES, FOR THAT MATTER. READ IT — HOW CAN WE, AS A NATION, GO WRONG??? … BRING BACK TTC!!! MAGA2024.” And on Saturday, talking at a gathering of the evangelical group the Religion and Freedom Coalition, he asked the gang, “Has anybody learn the ‘Thou shalt not steal’? I imply, has anyone learn this unimaginable stuff? It’s simply unimaginable. They don’t need it to go up. It’s a loopy world.”
Setting apart the truth that he talks in regards to the Ten Commandments like they’re some scorching new indie band he simply found, it’s clearly extraordinarily wealthy for Trump to again displaying the spiritual directives provided that he’s spent his complete grownup life flagrantly disregarding them. As an illustration, he apparently wasn’t involved with abiding by his favourite one (“Thou shalt not steal”) when he helped himself to an array of presidency paperwork that weren’t his to take upon leaving the White Home in 2021, or when he used his charitable basis’s funds to buy, amongst different issues, a six-foot portrait of himself. He’s additionally publicly taken the Lord’s name in vain.
Moreover, Trump ran afoul of a special commandment (“Bear in mind the Sabbath day, to maintain it holy”) when he posted the next message on Easter: “HAPPY EASTER TO ALL, INCLUDING CROOKED AND CORRUPT PROSECUTORS AND JUDGES THAT ARE DOING EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO INTERFERE WITH THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2024, AND PUT ME IN PRISON, INCLUDING THOSE MANY PEOPLE THAT I COMPLETELY & TOTALLY DESPISE BECAUSE THEY WANT TO DESTROY AMERICA, A NOW FAILING NATION, LIKE ‘DERANGED’ JACK SMITH, WHO IS EVIL AND ‘SICK.’”
Maybe most importantly, there’s additionally the commandment that claims, “Thou shalt not bear false witness towards thy neighbor,” i.e: don’t lie. Which Trump literally does all the time.
And naturally, one can not neglect the entire “Thou shalt not commit adultery” line. Even when one had been to purchase Trump’s declare that he didn’t have an affair with Stormy Daniels—and simply paid her $130,000 for the enjoyable of it—he did have an affair with Marla Maples whereas he was married to Ivana Trump. (In a deposition final yr, he boldly claimed to not recall if he’d began seeing Maples earlier than he was divorced, saying, “It was in the direction of the tip of the wedding. So I don’t know, actually. It could possibly be a lapover, however I don’t actually know.”)
Regardless of Trump’s lengthy historical past of partaking in habits many precise Christians would discover problematic at best, he’s managed to convince giant swaths of evangelicals that he’s principally the second coming of Jesus, partially by embracing Christian nationalism (and killing Roe v. Wade). As for whether or not or not Louisiana’s new Ten Commandments regulation survives a likely appeal to the Supreme Courtroom, that continues to be to be seen, although clearly there are some people on the bench who could possibly be satisfied it’s an important thought, separation of church and state be damned. One factor we most likely can rely on? {That a} line of Trump-branded Ten Commandments, together with his signature slapped on the underside, are in the offing.
