Notable Quotable: Gov. Marc Racicot On Trump
Recently, the leader of our beleaguered republic expressed doubt about his place in heaven, “I want to try and get to heaven…if I can get to heaven, this will be one of the reasons.” The president was assuming if he could just end a war, it might make up for all his bad deeds.
Christians are taught to pray for their leaders so that their decisions may be infused with God’s wisdom and, thus, promote peace in the world. But wisdom is absent in this administration. And peace is nowhere in America, let alone the world.
Whether Trump’s busy firing those who won’t bow to him, sending bombs to Israel to obliterate Gaza, ending $4.9 billion in urgently needed foreign aid, or revoking former Vice President Kamala Harris’ Secret Service detail, he misses the mark in every way.
Today, Marc Racicot, Former Republican Governor of Montana, recoiled at Trump’s reckless, punitive order to strip Harris of her security detail, an action cruelly timed to coincide with her upcoming book tour. His words emphasize how Trump continues to miss the mark.
“This man is moved by vengeance and retribution, and people of this country better come to grips with that understanding, and that’s a simple, but profound explanation for why it is that he does a lot of the things that he does.
“There are other examples and other venues, other forums: extorting universities and law firms, or, firing people within the ranks of different agencies that he hasn’t the right to fire, because of his disagreement with their policy provisions or their scientific evaluation, like at the CDC and others in the Surface Transportation board today—they don’t do what he wants.
“He’s so contaminated with the notion that the entire world revolves around him, and that everything that he wants needs to come to pass and will come to pass, regardless of what it is that he has to do and accomplish. So it’s a reflection of an incredible lack of capability to serve with any degree of civility or decency in the presidency of the United States of America.”
Our president has concerns about getting into heaven. That should concern this nation’s religious leaders. It seems, none of those who surround and lay hands on him understand their own book of faith. Or, perhaps they’re too cowardly to remind him that the New Testament asks two things of its followers: to love God and love their neighbor. There is no evidence that either command matters to this false god, or to those business and civic leaders who still grovel at his feet.
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According to political analysts, keeping his promise to install more conservative judges on the Supreme Court has given the president carte blanche with those religious leaders. There's no sin or wrongdoing on his part, neither past nor future, that will cause the religious right to move away from him.
His worries about entering heaven are about as real as his desire to spread God's word by selling Trump Bibles. He likely has no belief in the existence of a heaven, and his stated worries about getting in can be added to the tens of thousands of lies he's told since holding office.
Mr. Racicot's statement is welcomed and spot-on. On one hand, it's frustrating that only after retirement politicians speak out against the president, but it's, at the same time, understandable, given that retribution is very real.