Donald Trump And The Second Coming - No Kings Missed The Point, It's King Of Kings We Need To Worry About

Donald Trump posted a picture of himself as Jesus Christ curing the sick in a hilarious retort to Pope Leo XIV who criticized the President for his war in Iran.  

Of course the liberal press went apoplectic over the image.  How could he? Sacrilege’, they shouted. ‘Hateful…disgraceful!’ but of course these Gideon's trumpets were far out of tune.  

The Pope had conveniently forgotten the Iranian regime's slaughter of 30,000 peaceful protestors gunned down in the streets demanding the end of fifty years of oppressive theocracy. 

That was only the first twig of the Pope's ignorance as he also forgot the Allies' defeat of Naziism, the militant march across Germany, and liberation of thousands of Jewish internees in the camps, the Crusades led by Pope Urban I and his successors to forcibly evict usurping Muslims from Jerusalem, or the countless other wars initiated by the Vatican in the days of its geopolitical power.

Perhaps most telling of all was his omission of the Biblical history of the Jews - a violent overthrow of Pharoah, and the march of Moses' armies from Egypt to Jericho and the final, victorious battle over the Canaanites. 

Even Catholic intellectual and an early Church father, Thomas Aquinas, admitted there was such a thing as a just war, morally imperative, geopolitically sound, and inevitable. Aquinas, in his Summa Theologica, laid out the moral conditions under which war could be just. His framework remains foundational to modern just war theory.

In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary.  First, the authority of the sovereign by whose command the war is to be waged.  Second, a just cause.  Third, a rightful intention. 

 

The war against the Nazis clearly meets all Aquinas' criteria as does the fight against Imperial Japan, but using the same philosophical rubric, so does the war against Iran.  The mullahs, like Hitler, declared war against the Jews and issued a call for the elimination of Israel.  Israel's war against Iran's clients, Hamas and Hezbollah was justified because of this existential threat.  

Israel’s partnership with the United States in a war to destroy the patron of such threats and to rid the region and the world of a terrorist regime determined to establish Islamic hegemony by force of arms, certainly falls within the ambit of Aquinas' reasoning. 

Anyone who has been following Donald Trump knows that the man is not your grandfather's president.  He is a tummler, a vaudevillian, a master of ceremonies of a three-ring circus, an untamed, unrepentant Borscht Belt comedian. 

Trump could have simply responded to the Pope's ignorance with a carefully-worded statement of disagreement, but he, typically and not surprisingly, posted a hilarious image of himself as Jesus Christ curing the sick, a sendup of the whole idea of the divine right of popes and their direct lineage to Christ himself.  

The image was reminiscent of the best political cartoons of Thomas Nast and Tom Toles - excoriatingly honest, brutal and hilarious depictions of American presidents.  Making leaders look ridiculous was their stock in trade.

This of course was not the first time Trump went after the Pope, and this image of him on the papal throne had the same reaction among the injured, offended Left. 

The Left simply does not get Trump and never will.  Already apoplectic about the President, ICE, the opening of oil fields, the trashing of race, gender, and inclusivity, and the attacks on Venezuela and Iran, liberals literally choked on this latest expression from what they see as an idiot, a boor, a political miscreant, and the Devil. 

Now, with the publication of the Trump-as-Christ image, American progressives realize they have a problem far more serious than No Kings to deal with.  Trump now believes himself to be a divine savior.  

The cartoon is not just Trump being Trump, liberals say, but an expression of his descent into complete and utter schizophrenia. He is not just alluding to his divine calling, he is taking the place of Christ, decommissioning him, relegating him and his Vatican chiefs to the  bottom shelf.

Donald Trump believes he is doing more to create a world of peace, harmony, and good will than Jesus ever did.  Jesus was a man of great promises but who never delivered.  He would. 

'He must go now!, spluttered one speaker after another before the gates of the White House, raising their fists in righteous anger.  This insult, this barbaric assault on a good man cannot stand.  The President, already convinced of his innate regal authority, is  now claiming divine right.  If there were ever a reason to believe his is off his rocker, this is it.  

The howling misery, boiling anger, bilious hatred against ICE and the man who deployed them was nothing compared to this.  Progressives' worst fear was coming true.  The man was possessed, psychotic, and completely unhinged.  

Wailing at an Italian wake was nothing compared to the caterwauling cries on neighborhood streetcorners, from the pulpits of normally quietly liberal churches, on college campuses, and on the National Mall.  

Nothing has energized the Left, feeling more and more marginalized and ridiculed as the fancy clothes of its queer agenda and renascent socialism came off, than this. 'See, we told you', said women who had still not gotten over the defeat of Kamala Harris, the Left's own divine one. 

Never before in American political history has their been such animus, such ad hominem hatred, such belief in the demonic possession of a president than with Donald Trump.  Policy, programs, political philosophy, geopolitical gamesmanship have all been overlooked in the miasma of feral attacks leveled at the President. This was the final straw. 

But it was the Left that was made to look ridiculous.  Most Americans knows that Trump is a showman, a comedian, an Eddie Murphy Raw performer, a Jackie Mason in spades, a hilarious man without a scintilla of political correctness, a crude, expletive-spouting hero; and the Left's apoplexy looked like the insane St. Vitus' dancers, hopping around in a crazy, demented, mad Virginia reel. 

It's not who can take Trump seriously.  It's who can take the Left seriously. The Congressional side show of Schumer, AOC, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker and their shills is just for openers.  Their crazed gotchas, wild stump speeches, and unhinged viral hysteria has spread.

Normally well-adjusted burghers, happy in house and home, politically engaged but never outlandish, have become whirling dervishes. 

The circus comes around only every so often, and no Barnum & Bailey big top can possibly match what is going on in Washington right now.  It's worth the price of admission and then some.  No need to spend money to see two-headed babies and bearded ladies.  No entry fee is required to see a freak show par excellence.  Schumer et al are providing all the freaky Fridays you will ever need. 

Trump as Jesus? Sure, why not.  Nothing the Left has thrown at Trump in ten years has stuck, but that has not dampened their enthusiasm.  'We must...we have to...we're bound and determined to...', but those intentions are just whistlin' Dixie.