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In a Christmas message to his followers Monday, former President Donald Trump said he hopes supporters of "Electric Car Lunacy" would "ROT IN HELL."

Trump's Monday afternoon Truth Social post continued a theme he had been developing with several other posts since Christmas Eve, attacking Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith, who is prosecuting two criminal cases against him.

The frontrunner of the 2024 presidential race for the Republican Party nomination added a missive against "THUGS," which he said were more "evil" and "sick" than all world leaders. In the grammatically confusing post, Trump also appeared to attack Israel, which Trump lumped in with Iran, as well as both Russia and Ukraine.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

That's why Trump doesn't have Jesus' way with words.

Trump:

Included also are World Leaders, both good and bad, but none of which are as evil and ‘sick’ as the THUGS we have inside our Country who, with their Open Borders, INFLATION, Afghanistan Surrender, Green New Scam, High Taxes, No Energy Independence, Woke Military, Russia/Ukraine, Israel/Iran, All Electric Car Lunacy, and so much more, are looking to destroy our once great USA. MAY THEY ROT IN HELL. AGAIN, MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Jesus:

Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.

See? They both say "everyone who doesn't believe what I believe rots in Hell." Jesus just put it better.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I'm sure if you wait 2000 more years, Trump will sound sane and coherent as well.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

You don't even have to wait that long. The gospels were written decades after Jesus was supposedly executed. That means they were a totally inaccurate record of anything he ever did or said, and were almost certainly cleaned up to make him look better. So for all we know, he was as incoherent as Trump and Paul made a lot of edits.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

I mean Paul definitely made some edits to the overall thesis, dude fucking sucked

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

OK...but there were many witnesses and writings of him spread all over the region. That's a lot of written accounts in many unknown places to edit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

That's nonsense. The first writings about Jesus that weren't in the Bible were Tacitus and Josephus almost a century later.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago