Twitter followers were agog after President Donald Trump retweeted a meme claiming Jesus Christ likes him more than Barack Obama.
The two-year-old message from a Trump fan called the president βheaven sent.β Trump responded during another wild night of Twitter rants from Mar-a-Lago with a retweet and a βThank you!β The tweet included a meme of none other than βJesus Christβ carrying luggage and apparently returning to America (did he have to cross a border to get there?). βObama kicked me out,β says βJesus.β βTrump invited me back.β
Trump is focused just now on boosting his bona fides with evangelicals following a scathing editorial earlier this month in Christianity Today. The publication, founded by Billy Graham, called for Trumpβs removal from office for his βprofoundly immoralβ abuse of his office for personal and political gain. The editorial also lashed Trumpβs βblackened moral record,β including βlies and slandersβ and βimmoral actions in business and his relationship with women, about which he remains proud.β
You can imagine the responses on Twitter when Trump used Jesus as a character reference. (One tweet suggested Trump followers would call Jesus a βlibtardβ for wanting to feed the poor.)