Trump: “I am the Chosen One”
By James Donahue
America’s controversial president Donald Trump has itched his way into nearly declaring himself to be God’s Messiah returned to Earth, and it is alarming a lot of people.
Mr. Trump on August 21 tweeted a quote by Newsmax television personality Wayne Allyn Root as saying “President Trump is the greatest President for Jews and for Israel in the history of the world . . . Jewish people in Israel love him . . . like he’s the King of Israel.’
In their bid for the sensational news edge, some news reports have rephrased the Root quote to read: “he is beloved by Israeli Jews ‘like a king’ or ‘the second coming of God.’”
It was probably inevitable that an evangelical group of Trump supporters would jump on the quote, claiming that the Israelis may be considering Trump as “a precondition for the Second Coming of Christ.” But Mark Sumner, a writer for Daily Kos, wrote the following day that Trump himself took it that final step. Sumner wrote: “Standing on the South Lawn of the White House on Wednesday afternoon, Trump set out to explain why he, and only he, can solve the trade war with China. And no. The answer was not “because I created this trade war out of my own fundamental misunderstandings of economics and finally recognize that the American consumer is shelling out billions to defend my fragile ego.” Instead Trump looked to the sky and declared: “I am the chosen one.”
For reference, Sumner quoted White House reporter Andrew Feinberg who was apparently present to hear Trump say it and posted the quote on his webpage.
It may seem difficult to believe that anyone would blatantly stand before the nation’s top news staff and declare himself to be “the chosen one. But this man, Trump, appears to have started to consider himself an impenetrable servant of God now that he has had a taste of presiding over the government of one of the most powerful nations on Earth. He seems to have even forgotten that he is on this job only because he was elected to serve and that elections come around every four years. This week he also declared his interest in remaining in the presidency for another six years and called for the removal of the Fourteenth Amendment that guarantees citizenship to all children born in the United States.
It is true that a lot of religious organizations, including the evangelical Christians, are seriously looking for a Second Coming of Christ and consequently are anxious for a final world war to insure His arrival in what appears to be the final hours before our heating planet brings the end of all life.
But Trump now becomes the latest in a long recorded list of at least 71 men who have claimed to have been the risen messiah since Jesus allegedly promised he was coming back some 2,000 years ago. They came from not only the Christian faith but also the Moslem and Hebrew religions as well. All have been living on some kind of promise by a past Messiah that they would return to set things right. King Ben of the House of David in Benton Harbor is yet another alleged messiah who claimed to be coming back although his name is not listed among the 71. The Christians are leaning on a promise in the Book of Revelation that they also would be getting “a new Heaven and a new Earth” out of the deal.
Even more disturbing has been the admission by current Bible scholars that their intense research has failed to find evidence that Jesus ever declared himself to be the Son of God, that he was killed by the Romans and rose from the dead, or that he was any more than an itinerant Hebrew minister who attempted to turn the people of Israel away from false religious doctrine of his day. Some scholars question whether Jesus ever lived at all.
Mr. Trump appears to be setting the stage for a fierce religious following that may lead this nation down a very dark path in the months to come. And what is worse, now that it has been put in his head, Trump may actually believe he is a deity.
By James Donahue
America’s controversial president Donald Trump has itched his way into nearly declaring himself to be God’s Messiah returned to Earth, and it is alarming a lot of people.
Mr. Trump on August 21 tweeted a quote by Newsmax television personality Wayne Allyn Root as saying “President Trump is the greatest President for Jews and for Israel in the history of the world . . . Jewish people in Israel love him . . . like he’s the King of Israel.’
In their bid for the sensational news edge, some news reports have rephrased the Root quote to read: “he is beloved by Israeli Jews ‘like a king’ or ‘the second coming of God.’”
It was probably inevitable that an evangelical group of Trump supporters would jump on the quote, claiming that the Israelis may be considering Trump as “a precondition for the Second Coming of Christ.” But Mark Sumner, a writer for Daily Kos, wrote the following day that Trump himself took it that final step. Sumner wrote: “Standing on the South Lawn of the White House on Wednesday afternoon, Trump set out to explain why he, and only he, can solve the trade war with China. And no. The answer was not “because I created this trade war out of my own fundamental misunderstandings of economics and finally recognize that the American consumer is shelling out billions to defend my fragile ego.” Instead Trump looked to the sky and declared: “I am the chosen one.”
For reference, Sumner quoted White House reporter Andrew Feinberg who was apparently present to hear Trump say it and posted the quote on his webpage.
It may seem difficult to believe that anyone would blatantly stand before the nation’s top news staff and declare himself to be “the chosen one. But this man, Trump, appears to have started to consider himself an impenetrable servant of God now that he has had a taste of presiding over the government of one of the most powerful nations on Earth. He seems to have even forgotten that he is on this job only because he was elected to serve and that elections come around every four years. This week he also declared his interest in remaining in the presidency for another six years and called for the removal of the Fourteenth Amendment that guarantees citizenship to all children born in the United States.
It is true that a lot of religious organizations, including the evangelical Christians, are seriously looking for a Second Coming of Christ and consequently are anxious for a final world war to insure His arrival in what appears to be the final hours before our heating planet brings the end of all life.
But Trump now becomes the latest in a long recorded list of at least 71 men who have claimed to have been the risen messiah since Jesus allegedly promised he was coming back some 2,000 years ago. They came from not only the Christian faith but also the Moslem and Hebrew religions as well. All have been living on some kind of promise by a past Messiah that they would return to set things right. King Ben of the House of David in Benton Harbor is yet another alleged messiah who claimed to be coming back although his name is not listed among the 71. The Christians are leaning on a promise in the Book of Revelation that they also would be getting “a new Heaven and a new Earth” out of the deal.
Even more disturbing has been the admission by current Bible scholars that their intense research has failed to find evidence that Jesus ever declared himself to be the Son of God, that he was killed by the Romans and rose from the dead, or that he was any more than an itinerant Hebrew minister who attempted to turn the people of Israel away from false religious doctrine of his day. Some scholars question whether Jesus ever lived at all.
Mr. Trump appears to be setting the stage for a fierce religious following that may lead this nation down a very dark path in the months to come. And what is worse, now that it has been put in his head, Trump may actually believe he is a deity.