A brand new Christmas-themed advert for a Donald-Trump-branded Bible is the latest method he’s utilizing his political stature to earn a living. The advert, which aired on Fox Information, exhibits Trump awkwardly holding a Bible surrounded by Christmas graphics exhibiting tinsel, ornaments, and evergreen bushes.
“We love God, and we have to protect anything that is pro-God,” Trump tells viewers in an ungainly gross sales pitch for the product as piano music performs within the background. Trump exhorts potential patrons to not permit “the media or the left-wing groups” to silence conservative Christians—implying that buying this branded product will support in that campaign.
In accordance with the official web site, the “God Bless the USA Bible” was impressed by singer Lee Greenwood’s tune “God Bless the USA,” which has been a staple of Trump’s marketing campaign rallies for years. The product features a copy of the Pledge of Allegiance and “for a limited time” features a free copy of the DVD “An All Star Salute to Lee Greenwood.”
The identical firm additionally sells a “The Day God Intervened Edition Bible,” referencing the day a gunman shot and killed an attendee at Trump’s marketing campaign rally in July.
The “God Bless The USA Bible” has beforehand been out there for buy and the Republican-run state authorities in Oklahoma launched plans in October to purchase 55,000 copies to be positioned in colleges.
Trump filed a monetary disclosure earlier within the yr noting that he had acquired $300,000 from the corporate behind the Bible, in trade for his endorsement.
Trump’s earlier connections to the Bible don’t precisely scream “devoted Christian.”
When first campaigning for president in 2016, he was broadly mocked for referencing a Bible verse as “Two Corinthians 3:17”—as an alternative “Second Corinthians”—describing it to an evangelical viewers as “the whole ballgame.”
One other incident was considerably extra critical. In 2020, the U.S. Park Police was known as in to clear protesters from Lafayette Sq. subsequent to the White Home and used tear fuel as a part of the method. After the protesters had been eliminated, Trump posed with a Bible in entrance of St. John’s Episcopal Church.
The Christmas advert marketing campaign for the “God Bless The USA” Bible is happening just some weeks earlier than Trump will probably be sworn in as president of the US, highlighting his penchant for making tens of millions from public workplace.
Along with the Bible, Trump has slapped his identify on a stomach-turning array of merchandise since first successful the White Home in 2016: guitars, gold sneakers, NFTs and even cologne. Sure, cologne.
