Mike ElganOct 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
Show threademeritrixOct 9, 2024

@MikeElgan

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

Show threadadamriceOct 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.

Show threadAlan Miller  🇺🇦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.
Show threadMike Elgan
@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 at 10:41amWeb
Show threadAlan Miller  🇺🇦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.