Pierce: Trump Marked the National Prayer Breakfast By Reading From Paul's Second Epistle to the Hann

[mcar]

Trump Marked the National Prayer Breakfast By Reading From Paul’s Second Epistle to the Hannitites
The president* brought out the hammer and drove the nails into his own palms with his usual alacrity.

BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
FEB 6, 2020

I've been spending a bit of time in the Divine Comedy lately, because why the hell not? Sin and hell don’t change all that much through the millennia. All that changes is the technology it takes to bring sin and hell to us, and vice versa. For example, on Thursday, the president* finished his qualifications for an extended run in the Fifth Circle of Hell by using the occasion of the National Prayer Breakfast—in which no president ever should participate, but that’s another argument for another day—to rage, fume, and whine against the awful fate which he so narrowly avoided. It was an astonishing profanation of the event, to say nothing of an exercise in public psychopathy.

He arrived at the event waving a newspaper with the banner headline “ACQUITTED” over his head and, when Dr. Arthur Brooks, the conservative religious leader in charge, made the mistake of referring to the obscure Christian concept of loving your enemies, the president* had a ready response to that heretical notion.

Arthur, I don't know if I agree with you.

At which point, the president* brought out the hammer and drove the nails into his own palms with his usual alacrity.

As everybody knows, my family, our great country and your president have been put through a terrible ordeal by some very dishonest and corrupt people. They have done everything possible to destroy us and by so doing very badly hurt our nation. They know what they are doing is wrong, but they put themselves far ahead of our great country.Weeks ago and again yesterday, courageous Republican politicians and leaders had the wisdom, fortitude and strength to do what everyone knows was right.

As dozens of attendees stared into their fruit cups and longed for the sweet release of the Rapture, the president* continued to read from Paul’s Second Epistle to the Hannitites.

I don't like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong nor do I like people who say, 'I pray for you,' when they know that's not so. So many people have been hurt and we can't let that go on. We have allies, we have enemies, sometimes the allies are enemies but we just don't know it. But we're changing all that.

It is plain from the actions of this most heathen of presidents that Dante’s real problem was a lack of imagination. Hell can be so much worse.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a30794674/trump-national-prayer-breakfast-rage/

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. It took me a while.... NT

[BlueMTexpat]

2. Love this, mcar!

Pierce really does have a way with words!

[mcar]

9. He sure does

[Mersky]

3. K&R

[FirstLight]

4. I don't know about the 5th Circle...I'd put him down further

Like the 8th ...?

[leftieNanner]

15. I think I'd drop him into the 8th Circle

As long as he has to stop in at 1-7 on the way down.

[SergeStorms]

21. I think Trump has earned a 10th level....

all by himself. Well, Limbaugh and Trump's progeny can reside there as well, but it shouldn't be too crowded for Mr. truth and honesty.

[2naSalit]

5. K&R

[Duncan Grant]

6. We're not afraid of you trump. Bring it, MF.

Please bring your “Lonesome Rhodes” political enemies sideshow to San Francisco. Coward.

[UCmeNdc]

7. K&R!

[spanone]

8. K&R...

[struggle4progress]

10. "I don't like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong"

[Hermit-The-Prog]

11. nobody does hypocrisy bigger than trumputin. many people say.

[SergeStorms]

22. Again, Trump's projection catches up with him.

What it is he's accusing others of doing, he's doing himself, exponentially so.

[keithbvadu2]

16. So devout

[bucolic_frolic]

12. Pierce reminds me of the skewering writings

of Art Buchwald, Nixon era for those too young to recall.

[Mickju]

17. I loved Art Buchwald.

[CaptYossarian]

13. "Very dishonest and corrupt people"? Then he's admitting he's guilty.

You have to admit you have a problem before you can fix it.

[Liberalhammer]

14. If I were satan

I'd need to make an entire new level for Trump.

[keithbvadu2]

18. "have been put through a terrible ordeal"

“have been put through a terrible ordeal”
.

The Trumps are not shy about proclaiming how much they have 'sacrificed'.

Visit to Arlington Cemetery reminded Donald Trump Jr. of all his family's 'sacrifices,' he writes

https://www.stripes.com/news/us/visit-to-arlington-cemetery-reminded-donald-trump-jr-of-all-his-family-s-sacrifices-he-writes-1.606501

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212910508

"I gave up my life to move to Washington to help Americans," Ivanka Trump says in Davos interview.

[mcar]

19. Snowflakes

[brer cat]

20. K&R

[Hekate]

23. Love Charlie Pierce so much

[mcar]

24. I do, too.

Obviously.

[crickets]

25. Love it. K&R