Kevin Kruse: I've studied the Natl Prayer Breakfast a good bit, and I can't say how bizarre it is...

[Dennis Donovan]

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Kevin M. Kruse ✔@KevinMKruse

I've studied the National Prayer Breakfast a good bit, and I can't say how bizarre it is for a president to use the moment -- traditionally one devoted to bipartisanship and unity -- to strike such a petty, vindictive tone at the event.



9:20 AM - Feb 6, 2020

[spanone]

1. trump sounds as drugged as I've ever heard him.....

[mobeau69]

5. What the fuck is he on? Some kind of sedative? His speech is so slow and mumbled.

He is so fucking disgusting.

[dewsgirl]

8. Too much Adderall has the opposite effect.

[malaise]

11. Give him more

[mobeau69]

12. LOL!

[safeinOhio]

2. His tax returns

would reveal who gives more to his or her church.

[Rider3]

3. Hypocrites

They let their hate and insults fly so freely. Not Jesus-like at all.

[Ohiogal]

4. More verbal diarrhea

from the hideous orange freak.

[bobbieinok]

6. Sharlot's book The Family exposes the authoritarian, mega reactionary origin of this institution

Everyone should read about this institution and the group that started it. Goal is a global super anti-democracy movement

[Merlot]

13. It's also a 5 part series on Netflix

Very creepy "family."

[snowybirdie]

7. Anyone watch

The Netflix film, "The Family"? Story about the cultists who started that prayer breakfast and influenced our government for years!

[dewsgirl]

9. All those years of building these relationships, they

have finally suceeded and this administration hands them virtually everything they ask for on a silver platter. That documentary scared the crap out of me.

[dalton99a]

10. Disinfect the place and make sure he won't set foot in it again

[Caliman73]

14. Trump is an idiot.

He deems to know what is inside the mind of Romney and Pelosi? Or he thinks that the only "right" thing is the thing that benefits him.

Nancy Pelosi says that she prays for Trump. I believe her. She has shown in many ways that she follows the social justice tenets of Catholicism. My grandmother used to say that she would pray for me. She was not praying that everything went my way or that I was always happy and without struggle. She was praying that I would do what was just and that I would get through life's troubles safely and grow from my experiences to become a good man. Pelosi has said and again, I believe her, that she prays that Trump sets aside his selfish desires and does what a good leader should. She isn't praying for him to get what he wants, because what he wants is not good for anybody. She is praying for his soul, that he be changed and that he repent for his ridiculous ways.

Mitt Romney said that his Mormon faith and his memory of his father guided his decision to vote to convict. He said he wanted his grand children and great grand children to be able to look at history, likely through their lens of faith, and see that he was on the correct side in his decision.

A person with any decency would have said nothing about that, or at least said, "While I disagree with the result of his decision and while I disagree with Speaker Pelosi, I do not doubt that they are acting on the convictions of their faith." But, we know that Trump has no decency; that he fashions himself above all of the small things like ethics, morals, religion.

[maxsolomon]

17. his only religion is Solipsism.

his tiny brain cannot conceive that others are sincere about anything, ever, anywhere.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

15. Why do these people like Kyle Cheney act like this is a surprise?

None of this has been normal for the past four years. None of it.

He's broken all convention. As have his lapdogs in the Senate. And yet people are "surprised" when the Tangeranus breaks decorum or tradition.

None of this is normal.

[cwydro]

16. I don't know anyone who could possibly be surprised at anything this loon does.

He really thinks he’s the king of us now.

But I haven’t been surprised at anything he does in over a year. He’s a maniac, and people are too busy playing video games or buying more, more, more from Amazon to even pay attention.

The turnout in Iowa was disappointingly low considering what’s happening.

[Under The Radar]

18. How have the evangelicals responded?

[struggle4progress]

19. By smoking even more meth?

[Journeyman]

20. Ironic that when he disagreed with Brooks, it was actually Christ's words Trump found fault with ...

and yet, in a room full of supposed followers of the Nazarene, not one contested the blatant blasphemy against their God's teachings, or felt it incumbent to correct the pharisee among them.

Cowards, one and all.