Former Donald Trump biographer and current Bloomberg Opinion executive editor Tim O’Brien told an MS NOW host on Wednesday that the president is likely unconcerned with the furor he is creating with his social media obsession with Jesus, but his inner circle is being put on the spot with nowhere to turn.
Appearing with host Anna Cabrera, O’Brien noted that the president’s relationship with Christianity, dating back to his childhood, is tenuous at best and that he may not understand how deeply offensive his likening himself to the son of god is to true believers and those who may not be religious but have an abiding respect for the teachings of Jesus.
As he explained, “I think he doesn't see it authentically as sacrilegious. He sees it as a political gambit, and he sees it as courting the allegiance of evangelicals who see him as doing god's work in the White House.”
“And this is not the first time,” he recalled. “In his first term he stood on the White House lawn and said, ‘I am the chosen one.’ He's been playing this game for quite a while because he's not actively involved in the faith. It doesn't strike him as being sacrilegious because he's not authentically involved in it, but he does see the value in telling a certain portion of his followers that ‘I am the instrument of god, so much so that I might be Jesus.'”
“The reality this time, though, and it didn't happen in his first term, is that those members of his coalition are lashing out against him,” he pointed out.
“And once again, Trump has painted his White House into a difficult political corner at a time when they don't need it,” he concluded.
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