Trump criticizes evangelical leaders for not backing his 2024 presidential bid

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

Just days before Donald Trump hosts his first 2024 event in South Carolina, a state whose evangelical population has long played a critical role in its presidential primary, the former president is lashing out at religious conservatives who have declined to endorse his third presidential campaign.

Trump’s comments to conservative journalist David Brody in a podcast interview Monday, in which he decried the “disloyalty” of evangelical leaders who have withheld public support for his campaign, were the latest in a series of bewildering remarks he’s made about one of the most critical voting blocs in a Republican primary.

“Nobody has ever done more for Right to Life than Donald Trump. I put three Supreme Court justices, who all voted, and they got something that they’ve been fighting for 64 years, for many, many years,’” Trump told Brody, referring to the Supreme Court’s overturning of federal abortion rights in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision last summer.

“There’s great disloyalty in the world of politics and that’s a sign of disloyalty,” Trump continued, bemoaning evangelical leaders who have declined to support his latest campaign.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/18/politics/donald-trump-evangelicals-2024/index.html

[peppertree]

1. Sorry, Donald: The holy rollers are looking for a new Mussolini

When even the Pass the Loot crowd knows you've jumped the shark, it's over.

[TigressDem]

5. Not THOSE ones, they are still on that gravy train. The "Silent Majority" decided to speak up.

The whack job holly rollers hearken back to snake oil salesmen days and are hard to get rid of, but there is a whole other level.

The majority of Christians believe in the separation of Church and State because they don't want the State getting into their business either.


Concietious Christian Leaders WROTE THE BOOK about the DANGER of tRUMP to Christianity and got a petition going as well.


https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Danger-Donald-Trump-Evangelical/dp/1725271788
The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity Paperback – June 1, 2020



A Declaration by American Evangelicals Concerning Donald Trump
https://www.change.org/p/donald-trump-a-declaration-by-american-evangelicals-concerning-donald-trump
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We are Americans of African and European descent, Latino/a, Asian American, and Native American. We are women and men, as well as younger and older evangelical Christians. We come from a wide range of denominations, churches, and political orientations.

We believe in the unity of the body of Christ, but we acknowledge the diverse nature of a community whose faith is biblical and evangelical. And we are growing. Given the rich diversity within our unity, we call upon the political world to hear all our voices, and for the media to acknowledge that the evangelical community is quite diverse.

As evangelical Christians, we believe our hope and allegiance rests in the person of Jesus Christ, Savior of the world, and Lord of our lives. That is why no politician, party, movement, or nation can ever command our ultimate loyalty. As citizens both of the Kingdom of God and this world, we vote with humility, knowing that our favored candidates always fall short of biblical values. We recognize that despite our unity in Christ, we will inevitably disagree about which political stances come closest to the heart of God for our nation.

[TigressDem]

2. God is NOT on your side, tRUMP. Sincerely, Actual Christians who believe in the Golden Rule. nt

[Lonestarblue]

3. Right-wing evangelicals traded their souls for political power decades ago, and Trump is looking

more and more like a fading political power so they need to find a new messiah who will use politics and the law to shut down personal and civil rights for all the people who refuse to follow their fake religious beliefs to persecute women and LGBTQ. Many evangelical leaders have become multimillionaires selling a fake gospel and they want their gravy train to continue, so they need politics to stay in the limelight.

[MayReasonRule]

4. In Other Shocking News... My Dog is Licking his Balls...

[The Third Doctor]

6. He answered his own question.

He was instrumental in overturning roe vs wade and now t h ey don't need him anymore.

[czarjak]

7. Fake Christians be best at exposing hypocrisy.

[Permanut]

8. I'm thinking they should switch over to Santos..

Whose name translates from Spanish and Portuguese as "saints".

It's a sign from God, I tell ya.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. TFG is going to alienate one of the few groups still supporting him

[PatSeg]

13. Shoot

Give him enough time, he'll end up alienating pretty much everyone on the planet. In Trump's world, everyone is a potential enemy and he's losing support at a record pace.

[LudwigPastorius]

10. Maybe pay another porn star to bang you?

The fundies seemed to like that, comparing you to King David.

[Initech]

11. Yeah go there, Trump. The GOP wouldn't exist without the evangelical crowd.

They're the only group still putting up with this band of losers.

[cloudbase]

12. If Trump should somehow become the nominee,

they'll be among the first to kiss his ass.

[greatbaldeagle]

14. Where does he attend church?

And who is his pastor?

[hay rick]

15. DeSantis has been wooing the evangelicals bigly.

This:

Link to tweet

My graphic and thread on the Eighth Day campaign commercial: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217454357
My local (Florida) experience with evangelicals is that they are very comfortable with politicians claiming that they are "chosen."

[2live is 2fly]

16. Maybe evangelicals will begin to see "tfg" for the liar he is. The guy doesn't care about

A-N-Y right to life, basically he traded votes in exchange he'd nominate zealots to SCOTUS to overturn Roe v Wade! But (IMO) what tfg really thought about was the 2000 election. He was pretty-sure that if he could make a big enough deal about and raise enough doubt, surely what SCOTUS did for George Bush, they'd do for him. Especially seeing as how some of them owed their position on this very court to him. We know this because many of us witnessed him on our tv's occasionally reminding them of it.

[Marcuse]

17. Breaking News! Christian leader reneges on a previous deal with anus mouthed demon.

[Martin68]

18. Biting the hand that fed him Not a good move.

Your star has fallen, Dumpman.

[dembotoz]

19. this might not go well .....evangelical leaders feel they are god ordained.

you correct them at your own peril.....