Holy Grift! Trump Bibles Miraculously an Exact Match for Oklahoma Public Schools Mandate

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-bibles

45 Comments

  1. Currently there is a massive Condo building project in hell for this new batch of Christians

  2. Ryan Walters wants to be Trumps secretary of education so bad is embarrassing. He’s willing to waste taxpayer dollars, throw away children’s futures, and to destroy his own dignity just to suck up to an old rapist.

  3. So we’re funneling tax dollars into Trump’s bank account. There’s more of this to come if he’s elected.

  4. He might as well have gone all the way and stipulated that the Bibles must contain the lyrics of Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the U.S.A.,” it wouldn’t have been any more conspicuous.

  5. Potential-Bee3866 on

    Trump is literally the most corrupt president in US history. Every fucking thing he does is a grift. 

  6. Tadpoleonicwars on

    So.. a state government has mandated Bibles in all public schools, and the Bibles must be the Bibles sold by the leader of a political party who is running to be President of the nation.

    Totally not a cult.
    Nope, not a whiff of state sponsored religion here.

  7. ParappaTheWrapperr on

    I don’t understand why people buy bibles when the Apple bible is free on the books app

  8. >Bids opened Monday for a contract to supply the state Department of Education with 55,000 Bibles. According to the bid documents, vendors must meet certain specifications: Bibles must be the King James Version; must contain the Old and New Testaments; must include copies of the Pledge of Allegiance, Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights; and must be bound in leather or leather-like material.

    >A salesperson at Mardel Christian & Education searched, and though they carry 2,900 Bibles, none fit the parameters [except the one] commonly referred to as the Trump Bible. They cost $60 each online, with Trump receiving fees for his endorsement.

    They should tighten the search parameters in case some other grifter quickly comes up with one that meets these “specifications”. All the potential candidates must cost anywhere between $59.99 and $60.01 and have at least one former American president actively endorse them on his website.

  9. Dangerous_Leg4584 on

    I couldn’t live in a place that had public schools that used bibles as part of their curriculum.

  10. TintedApostle on

    Absolute corruption. From SCOTUS to the red states the Republican party and Trump are corrupt.

  11. notcaffeinefree on

    >According to the bid documents, vendors must meet certain specifications: Bibles must be the King James Version; must contain the Old and New Testaments; must include copies of the Pledge of Allegiance, Declaration of Independence, **U.S. Constitution**, and the Bill of Rights; and must be bound in leather or leather-like material.

    Except, because of complete incompetence, the “Trump Bible” doesn’t meet this requirement either (though I’m sure they’d conveniently overlook that).

    It’s missing Amendments 11-27, so it doesn’t actually include the whole Constitution.

    And no, it’s unlikely it was actually malicious intent that excluded those amendments. What’s more likely is that someone went to [National Archives link for the Constitution](https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript) and copied the entire page and pasted into the Bible (because the Trump Bible includes the various names at the end). And then went to the [similar page](https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/bill-of-rights-transcript) for the Bill of Rights.

    But what’s not obvious from either of those links is that it doesn’t include any of the amendments passed later. There’s a [third link](https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/amendments-11-27) to view those. But if you’re simply looking for literally what is labeled as “The Constitution” and the “Bill of Rights”, you’ll miss that third link.

  12. Serious question, can a resident in Oklahoma sue him over this? I would think this would be absolutely illegal. I don’t understand how he can do this and not be challenged.

  13. Trump is so much like the description of the Antichrist and how he will appear it almost makes me want to believe in the Bible… Almost

  14. This is so messed up I’m at a loss for words. Elected officials are now helping him grift while also attempting to indoctrinate our children into their cult.

  15. Yes if there’s one version of the Bible that children will understand best it’s the King James Version…

  16. 12345Hamburger on

    Some super-progressive pro-LGBT group needs to start cranking out Bibles that are also an exact match and make a bid for like a third of the price.

  17. medievalmachine on

    The Holy Trump Church of Trump The Retributive Republican Saint of Rural Grievances. Hollow be thy name and reputation.

  18. I am finally fully and completely exasperated with this. Can they not see? Do they not understand?

  19. “Republicans: We need to get back to teaching math, science, history…”

    Literally never

  20. May I introduce you to Ryan Walter’s the Superintendent of Education in OK. He will be our Secretary of Re-education Camps if Trump gets elected.

  21. funksoldier83 on

    This seems like it should be a crime on a few different levels. Separation of church and state, fraud, campaign finance violations… any Oklahoma or federal lawyers want to chime in?

  22. >Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of a religion . . ..  

    -The First Amendment, which has long been incorporated to apply against thr states.  

    Oklahoma seems to have forgotten this by requiring the bible to be in schools. How can you require something to be read/taught/observed/acessable in schools of you didn’t first make a mandating law that presupposes the value of the content in the religious book?  Doesn’t that respect the establishment of a religion?

  23. They will rush to buy them and transfer the money regardless of the legal issues in how they award it – or the constitutionality of it all together

  24. Mother_Knows_Best-22 on

    The republican way. Making government profitable for the rich. This is where we are, what capitalism has turned into. As they cut more of social services and privatize those things, the wealthy get richer. smh

  25. Yeah. My dad was not a religious person. Imagine my absolute gobsmacked face in shock to see a motherfucking trump bible on top of his book pile.

    Never have I ever seen this man in church, let alone reading scripture of any kind. Yet the orange monkey compelled him to be a god fearing man.

    I don’t think the pearly gates are waiting for a trump cultist…