{"id":23471,"date":"2020-09-06T11:03:22","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T19:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/progressivesecularhumanist\/?p=23471"},"modified":"2020-09-06T11:03:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T19:03:22","slug":"trump-mocks-evangelical-supporters-and-their-christian-prayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/progressivesecularhumanist\/2020\/09\/trump-mocks-evangelical-supporters-and-their-christian-prayers\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Mocks Evangelical Supporters And Their Christian Prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He\u2019s Not Wrong: President Donald Trump mocks his evangelical Christian supporters, calling their Christian prayers \u201cbullshit,\u201d according to a new book from Michael Cohen, Trump\u2019s longtime lawyer and personal fixer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In his new book, \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/336yxTZ\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Disloyal: A Memoir<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u201d Cohen reports that Trump mocked and disparaged a group of evangelical leaders after they came to him and laid their hands on him and prayed for him before the 2016 presidential election, at one point declaring:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Can you believe that bullshit? Can you believe people believe that bullshit?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/cohen-trump-book\/2020\/09\/05\/235aa10a-ef96-11ea-ab4e-581edb849379_story.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Washington Post<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> reports:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cohen writes that before winning the presidency, Trump held a meeting at Trump Tower with prominent evangelical leaders, where they laid their hands on him in prayer. Afterward, Trump allegedly said: \u201cCan you believe that bulls\u2013t? Can you believe people believe that bulls\u2013t?\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cohen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/cohen-trump-book\/2020\/09\/05\/235aa10a-ef96-11ea-ab4e-581edb849379_story.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">continues<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The cosmic joke was that Trump convinced a vast swathe of working-class white folks in the Midwest that he cared about their well-being. The truth was that he couldn\u2019t care less.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The irony is that the same evangelical Christians that Trump held in contempt were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/progressivesecularhumanist\/2016\/11\/blame-white-evangelicals-for-trump-victory\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">the same people who propelled Trump to the White House<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/live-blog\/2016-election-results-coverage\/?lpup=25130888#livepress-update-25130888\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Five Thirty Eight<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> reports that national exit polls from the 2016 presidential election show white evangelical voters voted in record high numbers for Donald Trump, 81-16 percent. It is the widest margin for a Republican presidential candidate ever among evangelicals since they have been tracking the numbers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/evangelicals-back-donald-trump-in-record-numbers-despite-earlier-doubts-1478689372\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Wall Street Journal<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> confirms that more than 80% of white evangelical and born-again Christians voted for Trump. According to national exit polling, a larger percentage of evangelicals backed Trump than backed Mitt Romney, John McCain, or George W. Bush, the GOP candidates in the past three elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bottom line:\u00a0 President Donald Trump mocked his evangelical Christian supporters, calling their Christian prayers \u201cbullshit,\u201d and wondering out loud how anyone could believe such nonsense.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23472\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23472\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/410\/2020\/09\/TrumpPrayer1.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23472\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/410\/2020\/09\/TrumpPrayer1.jpg\" alt=\"Trump Mocks Evangelical Supporters And Their Christian Prayers (Image via YouTube)\" width=\"768\" height=\"392\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23472\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trump Mocks Evangelical Supporters And Their Christian Prayers (Image via YouTube)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"hzDownscaled\" style=\"position: absolute; top: -10000px;\"><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He\u2019s Not Wrong: President Donald Trump mocks his evangelical Christian supporters, calling their Christian prayers \u201cbullshit,\u201d according to a new book from Michael Cohen, Trump\u2019s longtime lawyer and personal fixer. In his new book, \u201cDisloyal: A Memoir,\u201d Cohen reports that Trump mocked and disparaged a group of evangelical leaders after they came to him and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1730,"featured_media":23472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian","category-news","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Trump Mocks Evangelical Supporters And Their Christian Prayers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"He\u2019s Not Wrong: President Donald Trump mocks his evangelical Christian supporters, calling their Christian prayers \u201cbullshit,\u201d according to a new book\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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