Aubrey Malone
In the aftermath of one of the most controversial and divisive presidential elections in American history, it might be an opportune time to survey what President Trump did in his four years in office. There are a number of DVDs on Amazon that deal both with his presidency and his life up to it.
There’s Nation Under Trump, Donald Trump v The Environment, Donald Trump – Master of the Deal and Trump’s Road to the White House.
You can also buy Trumpian documentaries like Billionaire Inside, Deal Maker, The Art of the Insult, The Making of Trump and – perhaps most interestingly – 2024 – The World After Trump.
It was gratifying to see the Christian bills he put through congress, but people have to practise what they preach. We need to view Mr Trump’s espousal of family values against the backdrop of his severe character flaws.
He did the right things for the wrong reasons. I have grave reservations about his evangelical zeal and his religious pronouncements.
A pro-life stance has to have more to it than being anti-abortion. It shouldn’t stop at birth.
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How can we call Mr Trump pro-life when we look at his attitude to NATO, capital punishment, climate change, poverty in developing countries, the World Health Organisation, the Good Friday Agreement (pace Brexit), the Black Lives Matter movement, even the National Rifle Association?
How can we call him pro-life when we think of how irresponsibly he dealt with the Covid-19 virus? He trivialised it at its onset when he knew how lethal it was, as we learned from a leaked interview with Bob Woodward. He went on to hold rallies that were ‘super-spreaders’ of it.
Nearly 240,000 Americans have died as a result of coronavirus as I write. Such a statistic smacks of genocide when we look at Mr Trump’s failure to wear a mask for so long – or to encourage social distancing.
He was pro-choice in his past. Why the u-turn? The Biden/Harris endorsement of abortion is of course distressing. Those of us who object to this deserve a better advocate for it than someone with Mr Trump’s revolting sexual history. Will that come in four more years? Hopefully.
How many of his bills resulted from genuine concern for unborn children and how many from political expediency? How much of his much ‘trumped’ Christianity was motivated by vote-seeking directed towards a certain demographic?
The documentaries above testify to money as his real God. After the killing of George Floyd last June he was castigated by the Chicago Episcopal bishop Michael Curry for standing outside St John’s Episcopalian Church in Washington holding a Bible. This was after having peaceful protestors tear-gassed. The bishop saw it as hypocritical.
To deliver a strong pro-life agenda we need a president who hasn’t been labelled a liar, a bully, a narcissist, a misogynist, a racist, a conman, a xenophobe and a fascist. These aren’t Christian qualities. They make one question the integrity of an administration that was guilty of duplicity in so many respects.