Politics
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March 30, 2024
Trump is attempting to hawk Bibles to his fans. Barber and others are not encouraged.
The evaluations remain in for Donald Trump’s marketing of $59.99 Bibles in the run-up to Easter, and they are bad.
“Happy Holy Week! Let’s Make America Pray Again. As we lead into Good Friday and Easter, I motivate you to get a copy of the God Bless The USA Bible,” the previous president revealed on Holy Tuesday. He was hawking an edition of the King James Version that’s “influenced by” nation vocalist Lee Greenwood’s tune “God Bless the USA.”
Promoted in collaboration with Greenwood, this Bible includes the Old and New Testaments, in addition to the lyrics of the tune that is routinely dipped into Trump project rallies, the text of the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, and the Pledge of Allegiance– a mash-up that’s determined to interest Christian nationalists. In case all of that wasn’t enough to sway Trump acolytes to part with their hard-earned money, the marketing project guarantees that this is “the only Bible backed by President Trump.”
The recommendation belongs to what Forbes refers to as “a name, image and similarity offer [that comes] as the previous president broadens his recommendations and item launches– consisting of tennis shoes and NFT cards– even as he owes numerous millions in a trio of civil cases.” CNN notes that, while the God Bless the USA Bible site states no earnings from the sales of the Bible will go towards Trump’s 2024 governmental project, “there is no reference of whether any profits might be put towards his individual legal difficulties.”
Wherever the cash winds up, Trump plainly wishes to increase Bible sales. He’s doing a difficult sell today for the MAGA-fied Good Book. In a video published on Truth Social, the presumptive 2024 Republican candidate states“All Americans require a Bible in their home, and I have numerous. It’s my preferred book; it’s a great deal of individuals’s preferred book.”
It is.
The sales pitch from a 91-times-indicted supposed billionaire, who is set to deal with trial this spring on charges that he falsified service files as part of a supposed