Jew-Loving Evangelical Kooks Claiming “God Saved Trump,” Calling It a “Miracle”

Did God actually save Donald Trump from assassination? Or was “the assassination attempt” a goofy WWE style hoax?

It seems to me that those are the only two options.

If it’s the first thing, however, we would have to believe that God is pro-gay, pro-abortion, pro-face-tattoo-stripper, pro-war, pro-Indian voodoo, and pro the various other things the MAGA movement now represents.

I’m having a hard time with that.

The Guardian:

Rocío Cleveland was at a wedding on Saturday when she heard the news that something had happened to Donald Trump. He had fallen, clutching his ear, while giving remarks at a rally and it wasn’t yet clear if he was injured or even dead.

“It took a little bit for it to sink in,” said Cleveland, a conservative activist from Illinois who attended the Republican national convention this week. “I was speechless, I was crying, I was in tears.”

Trump had been tackled to the ground by a Secret Service detail after a gunman, perched on a nearby roof, opened fire on the crowd at a Trump rally. When the former US president rose, shaking his fist, blood dripping down his face – apparently only grazed by the would-be assassin’s bullet – the moment, for Cleveland, was euphoric.

“I think this tragic event that happened to President Trump, I think it will restore the faith in our country, as horrible as it may sound,” Cleveland said. “The world saw a miracle before their eyes.”

Cleveland’s perspective – that Trump’s survival was more than just luck – is shared widely by Christian believers in the Maga (Make America great again) movement who have seen the hand of God in Trump’s recent escape from serious harm at the hands of a gun-wielding 20-year-old shooter with no easily discernible motive.

It also bolsters Trump’s support in a key part of the Republican base – conservative evangelicals – that he and his team have been seeking to woo be deploying Christian imagery throughout his 2024 campaign.

The religious feeling, that Trump was saved in an act of divine intervention, quickly took hold in the Republican party after the shooting, with grassroots activists, internet personalities and powerful Republican lawmakers offering religious explanations for the near-miss.

I have no doubt that God lowered a shield of protection over Donald Trump,” Ben Carson, Trump’s former secretary of housing and urban development, told the crowd on Tuesday night.

Yeah, okay.

Well.

I’m having a pretty hard time with this one.

If I’d experienced a miracle, I don’t think the first thing I would do is go watch a face-tattoo stripper give a speech about how I love gay sex.

I don’t think I’d sit for an Indian voodoo prayer.

I don’t think I’d sit for more speeches about gay sex.

I don’t think I’d pick a guy with a fake name married to an Indian voodoo priestess as my key symbolic ally.

I think if I was Trump and I’d experienced a life-saving miracle, my reaction would be something more like this: