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GunnarOlai Oct 9, 2024

Donald Trump’s bible racket tells you everything you need to know about Trump:

They cost Trump $3 each; he sells them for $60.

These “God Bless the USA” bibles are made in China.

They contain the Constitution, BUT, without the amendments that abolish slavery, provide equal protection under the law, establish the right to vote regardless of race, establish women’s right to vote and presidential term limits.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-god-bless-usa-bible-china-32a80611605d4052d8238064bbcace4c

Trump's 'God Bless the USA' Bibles were printed in China, AP review finds

Thousands of copies of Donald Trump’s “God Bless the USA” Bible were printed in China, a country that the former president has repeatedly accused of stealing American jobs and engaging in unfair trade practices. Global trade records reviewed by The Associated Press show a publisher in China’s eastern city of Hangzhou shipped close to 120,000 of the Bibles to the United States between early February and late March. The largest and most recent load of 70,000 copies of Trump’s Good Book arrived by container vessel at the Port of Los Angeles on March 28, two days after Trump announced he had partnered with country singer Lee Greenwood to hawk the Bibles. The Trump campaign did not respond to emails and calls seeking comment.

AP News

Phiend Oct 9, 2024

@MikeElgan the man is sick in the head.

NicAnnCop Nov 2, 2024

@Phiend @MikeElgan so's a third of the country

Bwaz Oct 9, 2024

@MikeElgan There needs to be a gigantic tariffs on bibles coming in from China.

HonestHypocrite Oct 9, 2024

@Bwaz @MikeElgan There is specifically not -from the article “While president, his administration exempted Bibles and other religious texts from tariffs imposed on billions of dollars of Chinese goods.”

Scott Miller 🇺🇦 🇺🇸Oct 9, 2024

@HonestHypocrite @Bwaz @MikeElgan How are we going to protect our strategic religious paraphernalia industries without tariffs? Does Turnip just want the predatory Chinese Communists to control the production of religious goods consumed in the US?

(Heavy facetious tone)

Danie van der Merwe Oct 9, 2024

@MikeElgan Making China Great Again ;-)

2xfo Oct 9, 2024

@danie10 @MikeElgan
He thought they were great when they have his daughter patent rights to her handbags or whatever

Horror Author Reed Alexander Oct 9, 2024

Yeah, but his cultists will slurp them up with zero hesitation. I'm sure it was the same for Mein Khamph.

Michael Gemar Oct 9, 2024

@MikeElgan @Bellison22 If it doesn’t contain *all* the amendments, it doesn’t actually contain the US Constitution.

xs4me2 Oct 9, 2024

An unspeakable piece of shit is what he is… the only thing that matters to this pathological narcissistic sociopath is himself…

Alan Campbell Oct 9, 2024

@MikeElgan I did not know about the omissions, they've got to be deliberate knowing him. What a despicable toilet stain.

EVHaste Oct 9, 2024

@MikeElgan The associated press article doesn’t specify which amendments it contains or excludes. Did you read that somewhere else or are you guessing from the screenshot?

Sam Kington Oct 9, 2024

@Haste @MikeElgan Somewhere else, I’m guessing: https://meidasnews.com/news/amendment-abolishing-slavery-missing-from-trumps-bible

(I was curious too, so went looking.)

EVHaste Oct 10, 2024

@skington @MikeElgan Nice, thanks fam!

emeritrix Oct 9, 2024

Do you have a link/source confirming the omissions? I don't see that mentioned in the linked AP article. Thanks.

adamrice Oct 9, 2024

@anarchademic @MikeElgan That stood out to me too. Here’s an article mentioning it: https://meidasnews.com/news/amendment-abolishing-slavery-missing-from-trumps-bible

but it sounds like they base that on viewing youtube videos about it, so it’s not rigorously sourced.

🇺🇦Oct 10, 2024

@adamrice @anarchademic @MikeElgan notably from that "Trump's Bible jumps from the original Constitution to the Bill of Rights and then to the Pledge of Allegiance, skipping constitutional amendments 11-27." So it's not targeting those specifically, it's leaving out everything not considered original founder content.

🇺🇦Oct 10, 2024

@adamrice @anarchademic @MikeElgan also while Trump has seized on it, I believe this assortment of documents predates it being flogged as the 'Trump Bible' in 2024 - lots of mention of it being from 2021.

Mike Elgan Oct 10, 2024

@fencepost @adamrice @anarchademic The Pledge of Allegence isn't "original founder content," and, in any event: Why take them out, founder content or not? Did the founders, who owned slaves and didn't let women vote, have it right, according to Trump? Is that the message?

🇺🇦Oct 10, 2024

@MikeElgan @adamrice @anarchademic I don't know why Lee Greenwood chose to omit the amendments, but I'm pretty sure The Grifter didn't have anything to do with it. Trump is enough of a garbage person based entirely on his own actions, no reason to attribute things to him that it's questionable he'd fully understand.

GunnarOlai Oct 9, 2024

@MikeElgan Ah yes, an aspirational work. Essentially their first draft of their future amended version, though I'm sure they'd love to add some as well. Wonderful.

@MikeElgan That article doesn't mention what amendments are in it at all. Where did you get that info?

myrmepropagandist Oct 10, 2024

@jfslicer @MikeElgan
https://meidasnews.com/news/amendment-abolishing-slavery-missing-from-trumps-bible

yoused Oct 10, 2024

@futurebird @jfslicer @MikeElgan Which is to say, it does NOT contain the US Constitution. One does not get to pick and choose what parts of the Constitution belong in it.

Mike Elgan Oct 10, 2024

@jfslicer https://meidasnews.com/news/amendment-abolishing-slavery-missing-from-trumps-bible

Patrick Oct 9, 2024

@MikeElgan surely it doesn't have the first amendment in it. You wouldn't create a bible bound with a constitution that explains why mixing religion and the state is a bad idea.

T.J. Crowder Oct 10, 2024

@path72 And yet... They simply can't perceive the dissonance.

@MikeElgan
*partially abolish slavery in some circumstances

Arena Cops 🇺🇦✌Oct 9, 2024

@MikeElgan Shouldn't six-time bankrupt & non-exonerated Kremlin asset Trump have named his China-made junkle book rather "God bless the Confederacy & Putin"?

#AmericaDeservesBetter #AmericaHasBetter #KamalaHarris #RegisterToVote #GOTV #VOTE #Democracy #HarrisWalz2024 #Election2024 #YourVoiceMatters #YouMatter

Amanda Hugankiss Oct 9, 2024

@MikeElgan He owes half a billion dollars for fraud. Another $80 million plus for defamation. A total stinker. But many clearly thrive on the stench.

Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧Oct 9, 2024

Made-in-Russia president hawking made-in-China bibles.

It doesn’t get any better than this.

Jeffrey Oct 10, 2024

@MikeElgan Just when I think he can't get any worse...

ospalh Oct 10, 2024

@MikeElgan
I can’t find it now, but according to some review, even the bible part of that bible is cheaply done.
No cross references or anything like that. Just the pure public-domain text of the King James bible.

ospalh Oct 10, 2024

Found it.
Basically the only positiv thing he had to say was that it »opens nicely« and lies flat. 😅

And we get a look at the end: Constitution + Bill of Rights, i.e. up to amendment 10.

And they know nothing about typesetting. They demonstrate why you don’t do roman numerlas with a blackletter typeface. Their »III« definitely looks like eye-eye-eye.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_6TVa7scKM

God Bless the USA Bible 🇺🇸 An Honest Review of the Bible Endorsed by Donald Trump

YouTube

Mike Elgan Oct 10, 2024

@ospalh Wow. Amazing. Thank you. I'll watch this.

ospalh Oct 10, 2024

Turns out i was somewhat wrong about the roman numerals.

I was right that you don’t use blackletter capitals, like they did, as roman numerals.

But it is fine to use lower case blackletter like that.

Also, you may use, or people have used, a j for the final one. ij, iij, vj &c.

adrien Oct 11, 2024

@MikeElgan
@hotdogsladies

I can’t help but hear “these god bless the USA bibles are made in china” in the Project Farm voice.

This is Merlin’s fault.

now I want a shootout to see which bible can withstand the most torque.