Trump stood out in front of a church waving a bible in the air. Who finds something like that...

[Yavin4]

admirable or presidential? Who was that meant for?

[Yonnie3]

1. What a coward thinks a brave man looks like. n/t

[lagomorph777]

2. Even the Evilgelicals will be pissed because he forcibly ejected the priests from his backdrop.

[leftieNanner]

10. But that was from an Episcopal Church

And Evilgelicals (totally stealing that!) don't think that's REAL religion. Only their very specific version of Christianity counts.

[Mariana]

11. The Evangelicals who love Trump won't care.

They don't consider Episcopalians to be real Christians.

[Caliman73]

12. Doubt it. They were Episcopalians, not real Christians... is what they would say.

Evangelicals are not a monolith, and I am sure that some will be upset by Trump's actions. The leaders of the Evangelical movement however, will not care. Their agenda is not the agenda of peace and social justice that is supposedly Christ's teaching. The want what Trump stated in his call to governors yesterday, Domination.

[RockRaven]

3. Right wing authoritarians love it.

They've been trained, or trained themselves, to expect and demand that bible-waving.

[SideStep]

4. What happened was borne of little more than a Trump daydream.

It's clear he was making an attempt to show the country what tough looks like. There was nothing "tough" about his actions. There was no intelligence in his thoughts. But I'm telling you, when he was daydreaming about it, it was amazing and he flat out owned the libs.

I think this is one of the more clear examples of how Trumps mind works.

[captain jack]

5. An attempt to motivate his cult to rise up and march to the DC compound to sacrifice themselves

for their golden-faced God.

[sop]

6. This image has been reproduced several times since Trump's bible waving appearance:

Link to tweet

[vapor2]

7. His base finds this admiral

and it was meant for his damn ego and Evangelicals. He is a very sick man. Be afraid, be very afraid.

[Whiskeytide]

8. He was "posing" with the Bible. It looked ...

... absurd. It was obviously just a prop, and that’s how he treated it. It’s beyond me to understand how that plays favorably to people. But for some it clearly does. Smdh.

[global1]

9. It Was Meant For His Base....

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With his poll numbers faltering he needs to do as much as possible to hold his base. Think about the image he wanted to project and how that image plays with his base.

Strength & Bravery - tough talk on how to deal with protesters; walking from the WH in the streets where the protesting was going on - his base loves his macho brave image; he can't let his base think he was cowering in his bunker; bad for his image

The Church & the Bible - plays to the Evangelicals; the photo op alone with the bible in front of the Church will show up in campaign commercials on up to the election.

Even if he knows that he can't order the U.S. Military into states - he makes it look like he can push the Blue State Govs' around.

His base will eat that up. This is all image building on his part.

His comments of yesterday were all coordinated with the police action that cleared the protesters prior to his walk to the Church for the photo op. Why do you think his comments were delayed. This was all choreographed and had to come off with perfect timing.

It was all staged. With Barr and the Repugs that surrounded him at the Church. This was a staged campaign event that looked like it was produced by Mark Burnett himself.

[Totally Tunsie]

13. What short-circuited wire in Chump's brain led him to believe this

church walk photo op would be a good idea? Does he dream up these stunts during the middle of the night, and there's no one around to talk him out of this nonsense?

I wish I could determine, for my own info, if his mental illness is progressive or if he was like this from the beginning, but it was just well hidden and now he feels it is time for him to release his demons. He's nearly becoming manic in his thought processes, it seems. Damn scary to think of what he's still capable of doing in the time he has left in office.

[Midnight Writer]

14. It's another sales technique. How many home repair businesses have flags and crosses on their logo?

The suckers, or customers, think that somebody who is patriotic and God loving will do them right.

It is very effective.

[Budi]

15. Inside the cover of thr Bible was probably his bedside bible, Mein Kampf

Wouldn't doubt it one bit.

Hitler was enamored by American racism beginning with the annhialation of Native Americans & the acceptable excuse for Jim Crow laws.

This is an interedting & quite lengthy read. The point being American racism was seen by Hitler as productive.

*From the Ner Yorker article
How American Racism Influenced Hitler
Scholars are mapping the international precursors of Nazism.
Alex RossApril 23, 2018

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/30/how-american-racism-influenced-hitler/amp