Micheal Coren: The U.S. president had peaceful protestors tear-gassed so he could pose at a church holding a book that roars love, peace and justice
Trump holds a Bible while visiting St. John's Church across from the White House on June 1, 2020 If there is one thing we have discovered to our cost about Donald Trump it’s that he can always surprise us. Not with delight at his eloquence or empathy, or some desire for harmony and decorum, but in horror at some new presidential depth.
Just yards away, young people who had been demonstrating against racist violence and the murder of George Floyd wept with tears produced by tear gas and by frustration. Yet Donald Trump, supremely indifferent and even mocking, held high a text that roars love, peace, and justice.The politics behind this sacrilegious ritual are obvious. Trump is in profound political trouble on numerous levels, and he knows that unless he can activate his base he will be thrashed at the election.
But on a purely faithful and religious level it’s just as bad and perhaps even worse. The Rt. Rev. Mariann Budde, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington that includes St. John’s, put it well when she said that she neither she nor the priest at the church had been consulted, and that she was “outraged that they would be clearing with tear gas so they could use one of our churches as a prop.
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