Joe.My.God. LGBT News
The Hill reports:
“Evangelicals, Christians of every denomination and believers of every faith, have never had a greater champion in the White House – not even close – than you have right now,” Trump said at a campaign event launching his “Evangelicals for Trump” coalition Friday evening.
“Together, we’re not only are we defending our Constitutional rights, we’re also defending religion itself, which is under siege,” Trump said. “Every Democrat candidate running for president is trying to punish religious believers and silence our churches and our pastors.”
“I do really believe we have God on our side,” Trump said of his first presidential campaign. “Or there would have been no way we could have won.”
Trump begins at the Florida megachurch by saying that there are “thousands of people outside trying to get in.” As usual, I would appreciate your help if you are outside and can let me know if this is true.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 3, 2020
Trump says Charlie Kirk would be a “very good pastor.” He then baselessly claims that all of the department stores were not saying Merry Christmas before he was president but are now saying Merry Christmas.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 3, 2020
Trump positions himself among believers, against people supposedly opposed to faith and family: “Our traditions and our values are timeless and immortal. They don’t know what they’re missing. Right? They don’t know what they’re missing. Our faith is needed now more than ever.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 3, 2020
Trump, at a church, says his re-election will be a “monumental victory for faith and family, God and country, flag and freedom.” That is a new or almost-new line.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 3, 2020
Trump says he kept his promise to “get rid of this horrible Johnson Amendment.” He has not repealed the Johnson Amendment, though he has declined to enforce it.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 3, 2020
Trump complains about headlines that say he lied. He says that sometimes he’s just a little off and other things are subjective — “most of this I could argue with them.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 3, 2020
Trump tells his story about how he’s lost all his friends, and now he has no friends, because everyone is so respectful of the office that they call him “sir” and “Mr. President.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 3, 2020
Trump makes fun of Buttigieg’s name, uses a disparaging nickname about Buttigieg’s appearance, and says Buttigieg is “trying to pretend he’s very religious,” wrongly claiming Buttigieg started talking about his faith about “two weeks ago.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 3, 2020
Trump claims that people “hate Jewish people,” then says, “I won’t name them. I won’t bring up the name of — Omar, Tlaib, AOC. I won’t bring that name up. Won’t bring it up. I will not bring it up. But where do these people come from?”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 3, 2020
Trump repeats his eternal nonsense about the US visa lottery, saying, “Do you think their governments put their best people in the lottery?” Governments do not put people in the lottery. People put themselves in the lottery.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 3, 2020