<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">It’s no wonder that Trump doesn’t attend church. If he did, it would confuse those in attendance. They wouldn’t know who to pray to.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">Courtesy of the New York Intelligencer at:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/08/trump-jews-jesus-wayne-allyn-root.html?fbclid=IwAR3Oe9FUcOImC3zPfDKxHLD8kWUCICxiulfdLTh1zn9QiJfiXQsNqaaRUyQ">http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/08/trump-jews-jesus-wayne-allyn-root.html?fbclid=IwAR3Oe9FUcOImC3zPfDKxHLD8kWUCICxiulfdLTh1zn9QiJfiXQsNqaaRUyQ</a><br><div><br></div><div>——————————————-</div><div><br></div><div><h1 class="headline-primary" data-editable="overrideHeadline" itemprop="headline" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-weight: 300; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 41px; line-height: 42px; font-family: miller-display, Georgia, serif; letter-spacing: -0.01em; margin: 0px 0px 8px; position: relative; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Trump Says Jews Should Love Him Because He’s Almost Literally Jesus</h1></div><div><br></div><div><p class="clay-paragraph" data-editable="text" data-uri="nymag.com/intelligencer/_components/clay-paragraph/instances/cjzla39p4007qopyebph5cn0e@published" data-word-count="49" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; font-family: miller-text, Georgia, serif; margin: 0px 0px 20px; position: relative; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">President Trump has been <a href="http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/08/trump-insults-several-million-american-jews.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; box-shadow: rgb(0, 0, 0) 0px 1px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">vexed</a> recently by the refusal of the majority of the American Jewish community to support him. For insight into the mysterious paradox of why a traditionally liberal social minority remains unenthusiastic about his brand of blood-and-soil authoritarian demagoguery, he has turned to Wayne Allyn Root.</p><p class="clay-paragraph" data-editable="text" data-uri="nymag.com/intelligencer/_components/clay-paragraph/instances/cjzla3ho6000w3h601ygo1mp6@published" data-word-count="33" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; font-family: miller-text, Georgia, serif; margin: 0px 0px 20px; position: relative; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Wayne Allyn Root is a Christian who converted from Judaism as well as a notorious conspiracy theorist and, naturally, a huge Trump fan. And by huge, I mean, practically compares Trump to Jesus:</p><div data-uri="nymag.com/intelligencer/_components/image/instances/cjzlaabut001o3h60dzhuy75e@published" class="nym-image flex inline" data-editable="settings" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; display: flex; flex-flow: row wrap; margin: 40px 0px; position: relative; z-index: 2; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><div class="image-container flex inline " style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; width: 600px;"><div class="img-figure" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; left: 0px; margin: 0px; position: unset; right: 0px; top: 0px;"><div class="image-wrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; left: 0px; margin: 0px; position: unset; right: 0px; top: 0px; min-height: 10px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><img src="https://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/intelligencer/2019/08/21/21-trump-jewish-tweets.nocrop.w710.h2147483647.jpg" class="img-data image-zoom" data-src="https://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/intelligencer/2019/08/21/21-trump-jewish-tweets.nocrop.w710.h2147483647.jpg" data-content-img="" alt="" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; z-index: 1; display: block; width: 600px;" data-unique-identifier=""></picture></div></div></div><div itemprop="caption" class="nym-image-figcaption attribution" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; font-family: miller-text, Georgia, serif; letter-spacing: 0.25px; margin: 12px 0px 0px;"></div></div><p class="clay-paragraph" data-editable="text" data-uri="nymag.com/intelligencer/_components/clay-paragraph/instances/cjzla3hps000x3h608kre2tte@published" data-word-count="57" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; font-family: miller-text, Georgia, serif; margin: 0px 0px 20px; position: relative; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">If the president is seeking more insight into why Jews have failed to jump onto the Trump train, this tweetstorm itself supplies more evidence. Root is taking the traditional complaint that Christians make against Jews — <em style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">Why are you stiff-necked people forsaking your Lord and Savior?</em> — and substituting Trump himself for the role of the Messiah.</p><p class="clay-paragraph" data-editable="text" data-uri="nymag.com/intelligencer/_components/clay-paragraph/instances/cjzla3hqq000y3h600bonluo3@published" data-word-count="53" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; font-family: miller-text, Georgia, serif; margin: 0px 0px 20px; position: relative; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">The traditional Trumpist overture to Jews is that Trump might go after all the other minority groups but definitely won’t turn on Jews. That approach having failed to yield dividends, he is now turning to castigating them for failing to worship the true King of the Jews and veritable Second Coming of God.</p><p class="clay-paragraph" data-editable="text" data-uri="nymag.com/intelligencer/_components/clay-paragraph/instances/cjzla3hrn000z3h60cg5t5n53@published" data-word-count="37" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; font-family: miller-text, Georgia, serif; margin: 0px 0px 20px; position: relative; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">“They don’t even know what they’re doing or saying anymore” is not usually a good pitch for any constituency. And where Jews specifically are concerned, the whole “Second Coming” thing remains a bit of a sensitive area.</p></div><div>——————————————<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“You’re a Mean One, Mr. Trump”</span></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Donald_Trump/Youre_a_Mean_One_Mr_Trump.mp3" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Donald_Trump/Youre_a_Mean_One_Mr_Trump.mp3</font></a></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>