Donald Trump Jr. told a conference of young conservatives on Sunday that turning the other cheek, as advised by Jesus, has gained Republicans “nothing” in recent years.
Jr. was delivering a speech at the Turning Point USA conference in Arizona. He spent a portion of it encouraging right-leaning factions to unite.
“And if we band together, we can take on these institutions. That’s where we’ve gone wrong for a long time,” the son of former President Donald Trump said.
“They cannot cancel us all. This will be contrary to a lot of our beliefs because I’d love not to have to participate in cancel culture. I’d love that it didn’t exist. But as long as it does, folks, we better be playing the same game.”
“We’ve been playing tee-ball for half a century. While they’re playing hardball and cheating. We’ve turned the other cheek, and I understand, sort of, the Biblical reference. I understand the mentality. But it’s gotten us nothing. OK? It’s gotten us nothing while we’ve ceded ground in every major institution in our country.”
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Online, many struggled to remember a time when Donald Trump Jr. turned the other cheek.
I am sorry when did they turn the other cheek?? Was it when they lied and lied about the virus, election results or convinced people go attack our capital. Please tell me when you turned anything.
— Janet (@jbenn91288) December 20, 2021
A Republican encouraging a group of conservatives to “Ignore your stupid Bible and be more violent!” seems totally on brand. pic.twitter.com/K0yTLVe2e0
— Alfred B (@konpundro) December 21, 2021
the same talk that got people killed on Jan 6. no lessons learned, no consequences. teeing up for round 2.
— mac steele (@mac__steele) December 20, 2021
Oh, do tell us everything you know about the Bible, @DonaldJTrumpJr
I’ll wait.
— Jon Dean (@JonDean807) December 20, 2021
And there you have it. For the entire religious right, it’s never been about the lessons of Jesus Christ.
— Centist Texan in Central Texas (@ConcernedThan) December 20, 2021
Jr wouldn’t know Jesus’s teachings if it was written in crayons. Jesus doesn’t want lies.
— Joan Reed (@JoanRee71984820) December 19, 2021
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Elsewhere in the speech, when not questioning Jesus, Don Jr. proudly encouraged the audience to start chanting “Let’s Go Brandon.”
Yikes! #FJBiden https://t.co/2JnSgYGHut
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) December 19, 2021
Last week, it emerged Trump Jr sent several texts to his father’s former Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, on January 6, imploring him to persuade his father to speak out against the insurrection in the Capitol. His father did not do so for several hours after the uprising began. Trump Jr. has subsequently issued no comment concerning these messages to Meadows.
Heywood Jablowme
Aww, this was always the ONE week every year when Christians pretended to give a sh!t about poor people. But it looks like we can forget about that hypocritical tradition too!
Cam
Even at Christmas Republicans can’t fake being Christians anymore.
SamB
What’s hilarious is that of the 6 examples of the “many” people who are upset, the highest number of “Likes” is 27. The rest go from zero likes, to 10. LOL The outrage is real!
jcool
kind of ironic that that is what you picked to notice about this story, because nobody “likes” you either.
Chrisk
What’s even more hilarious is that you keeping coming here with your multiple screen names to try to make your opinions seem popular. Hint. They’re not.
cliche guevara
Excellent point, the numbers make it absolutely clear this Don Jr, cocaine snot in its human form, is full of crap and cancel culture is a made up thing. Looks like you and he have making crap up in common. Sadly that’s where the similarities end. He has actually found an audience for his BS and you have resorted to begging for attention in the qweerty comment section. Second place to cocaine snot.
Bosch
I don’t think you know what “hilarious” means.
Bosch
I wish religion were real, because I know exactly where Don Jr would be heading.
Chrisk
Please. You and your christian supporters have never turned the other cheek. Just foad scum.
Heywood Jablowme
Maybe Don Jr turns the other “cheek” when Kimberley Guilfoyle is spanking him?
Fahd
Oh, how the “right-leaning factions” have suffered! Like how?
Can you invoke “eye for an eye” if you still have both eyes? Isn’t that “you started it”?
Ginger Tom
Donald Jr. is preaching to the converted. Most of them have already long since given up on Christianity in favour of a new religion, in which his father is the supreme authority, namely “Trumpianity.”
Laughing Reader
Turning the cheek isn’t supposed to “get you something”. Any christian would know that.