We live in a country run by people who want to push us over the civilizational cliff. Secretary of State Pompeo last month told the religious press he believed Trump was chosen by God, like Queen Esther, to save the Jewish people and that the U.S. will keep fighting until the rapture. It should scare the shit out of the average American to hear the Secretary of State say something that sounds like it came out of the mouth of the My Pillow guy.
The reality is that the people around President Trump, to include the Vice President, are a bunch of religious hucksters. They’re all about manipulating God for profit which Jesus railed against in word and deed – Christ was repaid for this with a state execution. Imagine Jesus watching clips of God’s self-appointed representatives like Franklin Graham Jr wishing he could use a gun against Muslims, reading reports of Jerry Falwell and his wife having some kind of sexy business with a cabana boy in Miami, hearing Trump’s religious advisor Paula White demand her followers’ January salaries or face God’s wrath. These pharisees should be praying Jesus doesn’t come back as He’ll likely take a holy shit on them.
I can never tell if they believe their own bile or it’s a psychological self-defense mechanism. In Pompeo’s case, it must be difficult to reconcile the world-ending reality of climate change with his own twenty year record of doing anything the Koch brothers wanted to accelerate it – better to believe we’re in the end times and blame it on God.
Pompeo isn’t alone in his belief that we’re about to face judgement day. There’s a cottage industry built up around Trump being a figure from the Book of Revelations, which is being used to breed obedience and fanaticism. Even Bibi Netanyahu got in on the act, claiming that Trump was one of the four great friends to Israel in history (ancient and modern) and compared the President to King Cyrus, an insult to all Persians as well as the intelligence of the world.
There’s little doubt in my mind that the development of this cult is to prime its members to fully abandon reason and commit violence if needed to keep Trump in power. We’ll see how that turns out.
Most scholars agree the Book of Revelations is about Roman Emperor Nero and his persecution of Christians. But let’s say I’m down for a more literal, “we are experiencing the end times now and Jesus could show up as soon as next Tuesday.” outlook on current events. What could lead me to believe that Donald J. Trump is a representative of Christ on Earth?
Did Jesus deceive on a constant basis? Did Jesus cheat people out of the fruits of their labors? Did Jesus turn away the stranger? Did Jesus strive for money or fame? Did Jesus despise the sick and the weak? Did Jesus worship worldly power? Did Jesus judge people on the color of their skin? Did Jesus have three wives he cheated on? Did Jesus launder money for organized crime? Did Jesus brag about grabbing women by the pussy? Did Jesus register a trademark in his name to run an escort service in the People’s Republic of China? Jesus wouldn’t have done any of that but Donald Trump did all of that and then some.
The President is the living personification of the seven deadly sins. His behavior and his words are the opposite of Christ in the Gospels – I think there’s a word for that. Still, he could be part of God’s plan.
Perhaps the signs that Secretary Pompeo and his cohort believe point to Trump being God’s chosen seen’t clear to me because I’m not familiar enough with the source material. I heard trumpets are supposed to blow before the rapture and Trump does sound like Trumpet without the e.t.. Trump also means to win with a trick, which doesn’t sound righteous. Let’s take a closer look.
Trump was inaugurated in the first month of 2017. Interestingly, the first verse of Revelations chapter 17 reads, “I will show the judgement of the Great Whore that sits upon many waters.” Didn’t Trump live in Manhattan, surrounded by water? Maybe there’s something to this book. I better dig deeper.
“With whom the kings of the Earth committed fornication,” begins the second verse of Revelations, chapter 17. Didn’t Trump have sex parties with some pretty important people? That could be a sign. I better keep going to find out what’s going to happen.
“I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-covered beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns,” the third verse reads. Uh-oh, scarlet is red, that’s the color of Trump’s face, hat, tie and party. What could the seven heads mean? Could it be the seven authoritarians that cooperate in the global corruption network (Putin, Trump, Xi, Netanyahu, Erdogan, MBS and Bolsinaro), bent on the destruction of human rights as well as free and fair elections? Nah, probably not. Trump does however, have seven hotels and… oh my, there are ten Trump Towers, which stick up out of the ground like horns. Maybe the televangelists are on to something, maybe Trump is like a character out of the Bible.
On to Revelations chapter 17, verse four, “And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold...” Okay stop right there. Purple is the color of royalty and Trump does think he’s the king, we’ve covered the red and he loves gold. “...having a golden cup...” there’s the gold again, doesn’t Trump have a golden toilet? Doesn’t he drink from gold cups? “...in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornications.” The filthiness of her fornications is in her hands. That sounds pretty close to grabbing her by the pussy.
Are we getting warmer?
Verse five: “On her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon The Great, Mother Of Harlots And Abominations Of The Earth.” Whoa. I know somebody who wears their name on their forehead (it’s on a red hat) that also ran a modeling/escort agency and has filed to trademark Trump Escorts in China? Care to guess who it is?
That’s only the first five versus of a chapter with the name number as the year he was inaugurated – 17. A lot of people say Trump’s number is 13, that’s the chapter in Revelations that discusses the mark of the beast people wear on their foreheads. Isn’t a mark a brand? Isn’t Trump the first President who is a brand? Don’t people wear his brand on their foreheads? Chapter 13 also tells us the number of the beast is 666. Where have a heard that number before? 666 5th Avenue, a billion dollar bottomless pit in the Trump family.
That’s a lot of coincidences for Trump being around during the end times but unfortunately it’s not as one of the good guys. There’s even a great subplot in the end times story where the beast deceives everyone into thinking they’re worshipping God when really they’re worshipping the beast, know anyone that fits the bill? Not boding well for our future but the false prophet does wind up calling down fire from the sky, which sounds like nukes, and we know based on our President’s words that’s he’d be perfectly willing to use them.
Perhaps the cherry on top, NASA released a photo of a black hole, which looks like the eye of God, which is supposed to look down upon the Earth in the end times. Never mind that it’s been there millions of years, we just saw it yesterday. Trust me, it will be incorporated into the mythology.
Our leaders, like the Secretary of State and Vice President, give the impression that they believe they are acting out the end times drama. These are people reconciled to the earth getting destroyed anyway, so if they really fuck up, it all must be God’s plan and they’re flattered they get to play such a big part in it. In their worldview, global destruction isn’t a bug, it’s a feature. Heaven help us.
Personally, I don’t think there’s anything supernatural about our President. Trump is the character ancient Greeks like Plato predicted would show up in the end times for any democracy: A Tyrant.
Wes Clark Jr. 