Invoice Maher is sounding the alarm on the rising non secular fervor surrounding former President Donald Trump, who survived an assassination try final weekend — and was welcomed on the Republican Nationwide Conference in Milwaukee this week as a godsend.
“Because the bullet that was meant for Donald Trump missed him final Saturday, Republicans have been indulging in an orgy of magical considering,” Maher said Friday in the “New Rules” segment of his “Real Time” show.
He quoted professional boxer boxing star Jake Paul, who wrote on social media after the taking pictures: “If you try to kill God’s angels and saviors of the world it simply makes them larger.”
That “appears like one thing a man who will get hit within the head for a dwelling would say,” Maher stated.
Maher, an outspoken atheist, likened the Republican Occasion to organized faith and pointed to “pictures of angels and Jesus defending Trump” flooding the web after the taking pictures in Butler, Pennsylvania.
A number of lawmakers invoked non secular rhetoric proper after the assassination try, which killed one attendee and injured two others. Rep. Maria Salazar (R-Fla.) praised “the Lord Almighty” after the 20-year-old gunman’s bullet merely grazed Trump. Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) told Fox News that “there have been miracles that day.”
Maher reacted to Rep. Mike Collins (R-Ga.) stating that God “doesn’t miss” and purposefully “spared” Trump ― “inform that to John Lennon, Abraham Lincoln, JFK, RFK and Martin Luther King” ― and referred to as pro-Trump merchandise a type of “demigod worship.”
“Donald Trump, even in case you like him, is highly effective sufficient as a previous president, a possible future president and, to be completely frank, a cult chief,” Maher advised his viewers. “America doesn’t want a demigod. … It by no means seems properly.”
“Sufficient is sufficient with deciphering each random occasion as a DM from heaven,” he added.
