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For the umpteenth time, Trump has just said some “bizarre” things that, upon closer examination, turn out to be entirely reasonable.
As the establishment media is almost exclusively leftist, most reporters cover Donald Trump and his supporters as if they were strange alien beings. Tim Walz just boasted about his ability to “code talk” to white male voters who liked to watch football and fix their trucks themselves. And the oddest animal of all, as far as the media is concerned, is Trump himself. For one thing, he is a very funny man, and they are grim and humorless. As a man who loves America and Americans, his values are incomprehensible to them. And compounding the confusion is that he’s a good deal more intelligent than they give him credit for being, and so they often miss what exactly he is saying.
This happened again at the National Day of Prayer on Thursday. Having a president who openly endorses and encourages Christian piety baffles and infuriates leftist reporters, who are used to politicians such as Old Joe Biden.
In this as in so many ways, Biden was the exact opposite of Trump. While Trump’s public reputation, marital record, and more don’t give anyone the impression that he is a particularly religious man, he has taken repeated steps to strengthen the presence and influence of Christianity in American public life. Biden, on the other hand, was an ostentatious believer who paraded his piety before the world, but it was hollow; his regime acted directly against Christian values in all manner of ways.
And so AFP, among others, covered the National Day of Prayer as if they were writing a paper for anthropology class. Trump, according to AFP, was “surrounded by faith leaders calling for him to be given ‘divine dreams’ in an extraordinary event at the White House on Thursday.” The Times of India added that while there, Trump made “bizarre remarks” about his earlier meetings with Muslim leaders in Michigan who supported him during the 2024 presidential campaign.
Trump said of the Muslim leaders: “I love them. They were great. They said, ‘We don’t want to die.’ I said, ‘You want to die?’ They said, ‘We don’t want to die.’ I said, ‘What about the 38 virgins?’ They said, ‘That’s nonsense.’” The Times of India adds: “The line triggered predictable mockery online. ‘It’s 72 virgins, not 38,’ one X user deadpanned. ‘Trump’s math works in mysterious ways.’ Another joked that the number downgrade was the latest example of the president’s famed deal-making abilities—‘negotiating paradise down by 47%.’”
Yeah, that’s a good one. But overlooked amid all the banter and media chatter about the strangeness of the event was any consideration of what Trump was actually trying to do. Trump’s remarks here aren’t really “bizarre” at all.
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Westman says
Anything that causes the media and liberals to read the Quran’s Sura 9, instead of assuming Islam is just another Christian-like religion, is beneficial to freedom and sovereignty.
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Was there a divine message in the recent Kentucky Derby? Sovereignty won over Journalism.😄😄
sporticus says
Wasn’t the great schism in Christianity a reaction to the Church selling the afterlife at a discount by the sale of “indulgences”? You paid the Church a certain amount and you would spend less time in purgatory?
A better analogy: indulgences were a prepaid sin-card. When you arrived at St. Peter’s desk he would check his record of your venial sins against the credit on your sin-card. Who knows, you might get a partial refund which you could spend on the horses.
But anyway, did you place a bet on Sovereignty?
Westman says
No bet, but you are right on about the sale of indulgences (pay now, sin later) driving Luther to protest and create the Protest-ant line of Christianity.
Islam’s unlimited martyrdom benefits seem to be sin now, pay later with some earthly unbeliever lives in addition to your own. Frankly, it appears as a scam to entice men to fight for the conquests of Islamic leaders. It’s the ultimate political campaign – promise everything, deliver nothing on earth. And conveniently, nobody is coming back to declare the fraud.
sporticus says
A little while ago I read that some recent research suggests that “virgin” is just an original word mangled in some way as happens when text get laboriously copied down the centuries.
Maybe it just means unpaid bills but when the martyr arrives in Heaven the maximum he is liable for is 72.
Maybe 72 is some Islamic bookkeeping jargon.
Or maybe 72 is like a cartouche of hieroglyphics and 72 in Arabic is the phonetic equivalent of some lost idea. If you add the Hindu-Arabic numbers 7 and 2 you get 9 which was the age of Mohammed’s bride. Holy smoke!
Mary says
That is Catholicism which is NOT CHRISTIAN. and not biblical.🙄 As for Peter is not” sitting at any desk in heaven”!.read the BIBLE KJV✝️ Get the true facts.
somehistory says
Mr. Trump is not stupid. Sometimes, a teacher will make an incorrect statement in order to get the students to make the correction.
He may know it’s written as 72, but is of the same mind as we here….it’s a pack of lies, whether one says 72 or another number. Perhaps he just wanted them to out themselves as willing to die in the act of murdering others for some fake promise of virgins in a drunken orgy of raping young people.
That’s what they believe and that’s the thing for which they lust to murder us.
James Lincoln says
somehistory,
I have to admit, when I first read the headline, I did not realize at the time that Pres. Trump likely “misspoke” on purpose.
somehistory says
Thank you, James. I have heard him several times speaking with Glenn Beck….different than other interviews with *news* people. I know he is very intelligent from listening to him explain things to Beck. I could, in my mind, hear him saying what was written above.
Wellington says
Saying it’s 38 when it’s 72 makes Islam once again look even worse. I see design here by Trump who keeps playing chess when his opponents keep playing checkers.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Yeah, the reference to “38 virgins” instead of 72 was a stroke of genius on Trump’s part: anybody who corrects him makes islam look even more ridiculous!
It’s like when people accuse Muhammad of marrying Aisha when she was 6 years old (which is accurate!), and others try to “correct” them by claiming that she was 9 (or even older, which is even more inaccurate). None of it disproves the fact that Muhammad was a pedo
ed says
So Trump put a tariff on virgins
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Unless they’re made in the USA 😈
Taffy says
Speeches are good, butTrump can put an end to all the Jihad BS in the Mid-East by lighting up Iran’s military targets and thir drone and missile factories. That will also tend to lesson the threat of the Jihadis among us here.
Donovan Nuera says
What are devout muslim non-virginal women to do once they get to “paradise”???? Spend 24 hours in the laundry factory cleaning all the stained and soiled sheets from all the orgies between shahids and virgins and little boys?? COUNT ME OUT!!! EEEEEW!
Mary says
They are going to hell. So nothing to see here.
TIJERANDY says
Trump is allowed to make errors in math, at his age am I also. The truth is, the reward for Martyrs in heaven is “72 Virgins and 12 PEARL-LIKE BOYS”…and wine and honey, exotic foods etc etc. But today, we don’t expect godless France or Europe in general to know and report this. They fear to expose Islam and its ‘prophet’ Mohammad, PissBeUponHim.
Winston 101 says
I always appreciate Trump’s seriously humorous approach to Islam.
I just hope he recognizes that those “moderate muslims” are in their Mecca phase of development and by their Reproductive Jihad are working toward their Medina goal.
“Radical” Islam is a Snake in the Grass.
“Moderate” Islam is the Grass.
It’s all Isam.