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The White House Faith Luncheon is another sign of Trump's Derangement Syndrome [1]
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Date: 2025-07-15
Yes, it's Donald who is deranged. Not his enemies, both real and imagined. He had those comprising the Office of Faith, led by Paula White-Cain, over for lunch.
When reporters were let in, Trump started talking about NATO, Putin, Russia, Ukraine, and arms shipments.
Trump: Somehow, they end and we get off the phone, oh, that was a very nice conversation and then he [Putin] sends missiles into a building somewhere. I say, what was all that about? So anyway, we're going to be doing that with NATO and it's fully approved, fully done. And will send them lots of weapons of all kinds, and they're going to be delivering those weapons immediately to the site, the site of the war, and they're going to be paying for 100% of them. This was all made possible by going from 2% to 5% a month ago when I went there. Yeah. And those countries, those European countries --- and I said, look, we have an ocean, it's not fair that we did.
Trump: At the end of 50 days, if we don't have a deal, then we're going to have to do --- we have no choice but to do secondary tariffs, which are pretty tough, which we don't want to have to do, but let's see what happens. But we thought we had a deal numerous times. I'd get home, I'd say, "First Lady, I just had the most wonderful talk with Vladimir, I think we're finished." And then I'll turn on the television or she'll say to me one time, well, that's strange because they just bombed a nursing home.
This isn't in the transcript, but I was watching this part of the video last night on Lawrence O'Donnell's show. And after he said about bombing the nursing home, the people at the luncheon laughed. Laughed. How sick is that? These are supposed Christian leaders. This is who Donald Trump thinks are Christians. Sick people.
Trump: So we don't like that. But I want to thank you all for being here and welcome to the first White House Summit of Faith and Business Leaders. You're really some of the greatest business leaders in the country. When I looked at some of the names, I said, whoa, that's big stuff we have here today. In fact, before I was president, I would have been very intimidated. But now I'm president, so I don't have to be.
Right. Now no one can intimidate him. They just manipulate him instead, and he doesn't even know it. Why did it have to be a combination of faith and business. Why wasn't it just faith or business? I guess, it's because, Donald sees religion as a business. Everything's a business, everything's a deal.
Trump: ... so you're doing a good job. Scott [Bessent], thank you very much. You make any deals today? We've got a lot of them, boy, I tell you. We have them, but the best deal is just sending out the paper. You know, they keep saying well, he hasn't made a deal. Well, we made a number of deals, but why isn't he doing deals? Because paper is better than any deal we can make.
Paper deals. The form letters and the customized ones that were awful. The one for Brazil was absolutely insane. The one for Canada was ridiculous. Doing one for the entire EU at 30% is impossible. 30% on Mexico means food is going up in price. August 1st is coming up in 2 weeks. He can't let them fail, so if it looks like they are, he'll start all over with different amounts and delay them again.
TACO TAQUITO TOSTADA. Trump Always Chickens Out --- Trump's Asinine Quacking Unleashes Ickier Tariff Orders --- Trump On Steroids Talking About Destroying America. [ thanks to member "marking time" for the last one].
Trump: We have a really bad Fed chairman, really bad. If he would lower the rates --- if he would lower the rates and I tried being nice to the guy and doesn't help. He's a knucklehead. [laughter] He's a knucklehead, stupid guy. He really is.
Trump criticizing someone else for stupidity, is, well, stupid.
Trump: What he [Biden] did at our border can never be forgotten. 25 million people allowed to pour into our country, all unchecked, unvettered, murderers, gang leaders, gangsters, people that you don't want in our country by any means. Terrorists, we have many terrorists in our country and we're watching them close.
Okay. The real count under Biden is estimated at 11 million max. Trump has always been saying 21 million, but now it's 25 million. That means 4 million got in under his watch. And that's in less than 6 months. So that means the claim of nobody getting in for months has to be wrong by his own math.
Terrorists. Why are we just watching them? Why aren't they being thrown out of the country like poor farm workers are? Isn't that what ICE is really supposed to be doing? I must be missing something here.
Trump: But the things they did to this country, we can never forget it, from the rigged elections to the --- to the border to the transgender from --- for everybody from men playing in women's sports.
He was going to say "transgender for everybody," but he couldn't even finish saying one of his famous catch phrases. Then he tries to talk about trans doing weight lifting.
Trump: Have you lifted before? Yes, at a low level, he was a low-level lifter for a man but transitioned and he went up to that thing and bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing could have done it all day long, broke the record by 119 lbs. [laughter] The whole thing is crazy. The swimming records are pretty good too.
Laughter. Religious icons laughing at trans people. We at least have somebody to laugh at who deserves it.
Trump: You probably heard this, he had transitioned and she was never seen her before and when the race was started, he blew by her so fast that she suffered a massive wind burn. [laughter]
Trump would be a really bad stand-up comedian. He's absolutely awful doing it while he's sitting down. He thinks it's funny to be politically incorrect because nobody can do anything about it.
Trump: I was on a show called Deface the Nation. Have you heard of it? [laughter] They're so bad --- they're so bad these people, they're so average. But I was on the show Deface the Nation ladies and gentlemen, President Donald J. Trump on Deface the Nation. [laughter] No, but they're all so bad, but --- we were on the show and she said to me a question. She said, uh, what would you call this bill? What would you want to have it called, uh, One Big Beautiful or would you rather see it? I said I wanted one great, big, beautiful bill.
He came up with the name on Face the Nation. He says later, of course, that they took the "great" out. He also talks about the vote of Republicans on the bill which was 218-2, like it's never happened before.
Trump: We got 218 to 2. Think of that, 218 to 2. Nobody could do that. It's never been done and that says --- Rand Paul Jr, who's a guy from --- we call him Rand Paul Jr because he always votes no, a guy named Massie, always votes no.
Trump thinks it's funny to call him Junior. He's Junior because he votes no? Where is that coming from? So he goes through the Senate holdouts as well. Susan Collins was brutal. And then he makes fun of Senator Tillis deciding to not run for re-election next year. Trump says he resigned, when it's nothing of the sort. He now has the freedom to rip Trump apart. Then he goes through a routine of how he called up congressmen and strong-armed them to vote Yes on the Big Ugly Bill.
Trump: You can either get all these things and make the economy strong or you're literally going to have, perhaps, a depression where people so rich, so beautiful so nice to look at, will be totally busted. And let's see how long your wife stays with you. You're beautiful. She'll stay with you for about 3 weeks and then she'll say, "Darling, I can't take it anymore. I can't take it anymore, darling, I'm leaving you."
This is what happens if you don't vote for the Big Ugly Bill. Your wife leaves you. But, of course, it's because you've lost all your money. But then, so would have everyone else, and your wife doesn't have somebody else to go to. His dialogue leaves a lot to be desired.
Trump: You lose, you lose. It's worse than a poll. But I saw the lack of spirit in this country. For 4 years, it was a dark horrible place. And for people of religion, they were arresting your pastors, they were arresting you if you went to church and you had a service outside the reason outside because you had the Covid and you could go outside to arrest everybody for even having the service.
I have to visualize all the people there nodding their heads about this absolute nonsense. Never happened. It was the previous four years with Trump that made the United States a dark horrible place. It's now become a dark horrible place exponentially worse since Trump took office again.
Trump: As president, I've ended the radical left war on faith and once again we're protecting religious freedom like never before in our country. Getting rid of the Johnson Amendment that didn't let the pastors and ministers and everybody speak about politics. Now, you're able to speak about politics, Paula, you can speak about it. You can say, I don't like that guy and they don't take away your tax-exempt status.
The Johnson Amendment has not been repealed, but surprise, surprise, on July 7th the IRS said it would no longer be enforcing it as long as it was done during a church service.
Trump: And I stopped at the Biden Administration's persecution of Christians and pro-life activists. They would put people in jail if they even uttered the word and well look at me. I mean, look what happened to me, I was under investigation more than the late Alphonse Capone. Think of it. Alphonse would kill people for dinner.
Damn! Sounds like he's talking about cannibalism again, but he's not even talking about Hannibal Lecter. And he's off to the races with his victimhood once again.
Trump: I was indicted five times. Think of that. Indicted. That wasn't a word that was in --- my father's looking down, my mother's looking down --- that my son's not supposed to be indicted, is he? I got indicted five times. Impeached two times, all bullshit, right, all bull. Terrible stuff, and I got impeached for a perfect phone call.
First, he with a group of religious leaders, and he uses swear words. He calls on his dead parents who would be aghast at him being indicted. I understand that his father was not a good person. Don't know anything about his mother, don't want to. But now he's talking for them.
Then, he goes into the perfect phone call with Zelenskyy, recreating it. And then, of course, the war would never have occurred between Russia and Ukraine if he had been president. Delusional as usual.
Trump: We've restored the fundamental principle that God created two genders, male and female. That was a tough one. That was tough and we're defending parents rights where parents rights have been taken away from them schools. You look at some of these school boards, it's like they're brutal dictatorships and we brought it all back.
Trump brought back hell on Earth all by himself. No parent rights have ever been taken away. Just the opposite with the Republicans and Trump where they want to censor what is taught in schools. They want those Ten Commandments up on the wall. They want Bibles in every desk like they were Gideons. That is not only wrong, it's unconstitutional, and actually so is Trump's Office of Faith. Only Christians were allowed. No Jews or Muslims. That's called discrimination. That's DEI for Christians only.
He talked about how God saved him in Butler, Pennsylvania, from the assassin, and how he wouldn't have been here if he hadn't turned his head.
Then he talked about how the B-2 bombing run in Iran went so perfectly, and how Jimmy Carter's rescue attempt of the US hostages in Iran didn't work out.
Trump: They were stealth and they hit, every bomb hit their mark. Every single bomb hit their mark. It was unbelievable how they did it. And then they said, skedaddle. Skedaddle means get the hell out of there. They had to get out of that airspace...
This is the second time I am aware of him using skedaddle. But I haven't gone over all the transcripts, and you never know what he's going to say. But he's writing dialogue for the bomber pilots, too.
Then he gets into the withdrawal from Afghanistan and the equipment left behind. He talks about jet fighters being left behind. He talks about them like they were functional. They were all made non-operational, never to fly again. A lot of what he describes never happened. He even makes up dialogue between Biden and Gen. Milley.
Trump: We were run by incompetent people. We were run by an autopen that nobody knows who used it. I think it's one of the biggest scandals in the history of our country. We were run by the autopen. Nobody has any idea who used it, including Biden. He doesn't know. I saw that interview yesterday. He said he knew nothing.
The stupidest man on Earth saw Biden say that he was behind every single decision made, and yet Trump reports it like Biden made a fool of himself, when that is Trump every single instant. Comer has now made a fool out of himself because we know that he's using an autopen, too. Trump uses an autopen. What do you think signed the 1500 January 6th pardons? It wasn't Donald Trump, he's too lazy.
Trump: So it's a very terrible --- we're against an evil group of people and they're very smart, very smart. He's not, but they are. They took over the Oval Office. They actually took over the Oval Office. We can never let a thing like that happen again.
Joe Biden is first an evil genius, and then he's completely incompetent at the same time. He didn't want to transgender for everybody, but the autopen did. Trump is still looking for some way to invalidate Biden's pardons for everyone on the January 6th Committee, his family, and other obvious people on Trump's enemies list.
The end was Trump complimenting and thanking everyone at the luncheon, and Trump asked Paula to say a prayer. I can't write down what I'd like my prayer to be.
It was just another one of Trump's stump speeches with a bit more commenting on religion than normal. It was unhinged, inappropriate and gibberish. What was even worse was the laughter at what should have been dead silence. How could Putin hitting a nursing home be funny, ever? It's these people that are evil. The rich and the fake religious leaders. It's all a propaganda machine. And they don't even know that we see it. They don't care if we see it.
Thursday is "Good Trouble Lives On" nationwide protest day. You can make a difference. That's one of the only ways to stop this freight train to hell.
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