Tucker on the New Religion of Trump’s America and His Mockery of Jesus Christ

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  Donald Trump is a famously irreligious man,

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  just not that interested, basically secular, a product of his time and place.

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  If you doubt that, some of the funniest clips ever of Donald Trump, and this is not a criticism, they 're legit funny,

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  are him being interviewed during the 2016 campaign and asked basic questions like,

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  what 's your favorite book of the Bible?

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  Which he says, with some confusion, well, the Bible may be unaware there are component books to it.

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  So Donald Trump is not someone who traditionally.

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  Or ever really, has weighed in on questions of faith or theology.

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  Kind of gives it a pass or smiles.

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  Yeah, I'm for it.

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  I'm for it.

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  The Bible.

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  But in the space of one week, Donald Trump, the same famously irreligious Donald Trump,

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  has weighed in pretty specific ways on matters of faith and theology and religion publicly.

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  In ways that are disruptive and sort of hard to understand, but worth trying to understand.

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  So all of this began about 10 days ago on Easter Sunday, early on Easter Sunday, before 9 a.m.

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  On Easter Sunday, when Trump tweeted that he was planning on destroying civilian infrastructure in Iran.

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  It was going to be bridge and power plant day,

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  basically promising war crimes, crimes against civilians, against the population of the country.

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  And then in that same tweet or truth, he used the F word on Easter Sunday.

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