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Bad news: Trump has God on his side

In today's NY Times:

Of all the many forms Donald J. Trump can take, maybe the most perplexing one is Pious Trump.

It is a shape he shifted into shortly after 8 o’clock on Thursday morning to deliver a sermon of sorts on Capitol Hill for the annual National Prayer Breakfast. In the grand amphitheater of National Statuary Hall, members of Congress sat before him. 

There were leaders of the Republican Party, never so in thrall to him as they are now. There were Democrats, never so lost and powerless in their struggle against him as they are now.

“Look at each other,” he urged. He said they were a “great group of people” and beseeched them to come together. “We have to make life better for everyone,” he said.

President Trump, appealing to the better angels?

....Mr. Trump told the story of his near assassination in Butler, Pa., last July, complete with all the miraculous details, by now familiar: The chart of immigration statistics he turned his head to look at as the second the bullet tore across the sky....

His retelling of that scary tale always arrives at the same three conclusions: God exists. He saved me. I am a changed man.

“Honestly, it changed something in me,” he said as the room began to applaud.

But did it?

There’s little evidence that a new Donald Trump has taken office. He posts dark missives and ideas that rattle his staff at odd hours. He talks about retribution against his foes, shutting down the media and invading allied nations. He cavalierly proposes displacing two million Palestinians to turn their homeland into “the Riviera of the Middle East.”

After he left the Capitol, he spoke to a packed ballroom at the Washington Hilton, where the actual breakfast was being held. He reflected again on the attempt on his life and said “It was God that saved me.”

“As the Bible says, blessed are the peacemakers,” he told the crowd. “And, in that end, I hope my greatest legacy when it’s all finished will be known as a peacemaker and a unifier. I hope that’s going to be true."

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Rob's comment:

Already the biggest asshole in the country's political history, Trump is adding religion to justify the madness and the bullshit. 

Look out: Trump now thinks he has God on his side!