They had expected to enter the church, inspect the damage and possibly say a prayer, but opted for an outside photo shoot upon realizing the sanctuary was boarded up.
The former congressman writes that Ivanka kept the Bible in her purse until the group arrived at St. Trump, he says, ultimately chose one of the Bibles less because of its appearance and more for “the way it felt in his hands.”
Meadows also writes that Trump’s aides scrambled to find a Bible for the president to use on June 1, pulling ones from their offices and stacking them on a desk outside the Oval Office. “As I watched President Trump listening to his daughter, I could tell he loved the idea,” Meadows writes. John’s Church, where he would deliver a short message to the American people.” Ivanka’s goal, Meadows said, was to signal that “law and order would prevail” and “send a message to people of faith.” In response, she hatched a plan: She suggested the president “give his address in the Rose Garden as planned, and then lead a group of his closest aides and advisers over to St. Ivanka Trump received calls about the fire, according to Meadows. “The president used force against American citizens, not to protect property, but to soothe his own insecurities.” A senior White House official told Axios, “I’ve never been more ashamed. “We long ago lost sight of normal, but this was a singularly immoral act,” Republican operative Brendan Buck told The Washington Post. Even some Republicans were critical of the stunt. “The President used our sacred text as a symbol of division,” episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde of St. “The fascist speech Donald Trump just delivered verged on a declaration of war against American citizens,” Senator Ron Wyden tweeted. “Tear-gassing peaceful protesters without provocation just so that the president could pose for photos outside a church dishonors every value that faith teaches us,” Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer said in a joint statement.
Unlike the Bible, which miraculously didn’t immediately burst into flames, the whole thing completely blew up in the then president’s face. There, he held up a Bible and posed for photos while telling reporters, “we have a great country” and vowing he would “make it even greater, and it won’t take long.” For those who need a refresher, in June 2020, at the height of racial-justice protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, Trump, concerned about media coverage of his retreat to a White House bunker, had peaceful protesters tear-gassed so he could make his way to the nearby St. John’s Church in June 2020,” which, it turns out, was reportedly Ivanka’s idea. And now, thanks to a new book from someone very familiar with the matter, we know that Ivanka was responsible for one of the most ridiculous, sacrilegious moments of Trump’s time in office.Īccording to the Religious News Service, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows’s book offers a “detailed account” of the 45th president’s “infamous Bible photo op at St. From not-a-doctor Kushner playing a key role in the government’s pandemic response-a role that reportedly included telling people early in the pandemic that the virus wasn’t a “health reality”-to Princess Purses reportedly demanding her dad deliver an address to the nation on a moment’s notice, which resulted in him telling millions of people, “The risk is very, very low,” wherever there was a screwup, those two could be found.
DID PELOSI RIP A BIBLE FREE
Earlier this year, we noted that while the old saying goes, “behind every great man is a great woman,” the more appropriate adage for the Trump era would be, “behind every presidential fuckup is a first daughter and son-in-law who have no idea what they’re doing but nevertheless think they should be advising the leader of the free world.” Obviously, Donald Trump was ( and remains!) extremely capable of destroying the country on his own, but as senior advisers, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner frequently helped things along.
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