It must be a cold day in hell because Donald Trump‘s support among evangelicals is slipping drastically. And it’s largely because of the publicity stunt he pulled earlier this week when he had peaceful protestors teargassed and shot with rubber bullets so he could pose for a photo holding the bible upside down in front of a church.
That’s rights, folks. Saying racist things, bragging about sexually assaulting women and shooting people in the street, and paying a porn star $130,000 to keep quiet about an extramarital affair couldn’t change their minds. But holding the bible upside down, well, that is just an abomination unto the lord!
New York Times reports:
In March, nearly 80 percent of white evangelicals said they approved of the job Mr. Trump was doing, PRRI found. But by the end of May, with the country convulsed by racial discord, Mr. Trump’s favorability among white evangelicals had fallen 15 percentage points to 62 percent, according to a PRRI poll released Thursday. That is consistent with declines that other surveys have picked up recently. Among white Catholics, the same poll also found that his approval has fallen by 27 points since March.
Some evangelicals have begun speaking out publicly about why they can no longer support Trump. Like Monica Bailey, who has “never voted Democrat in my life.” She recently shared a video in which explains why she voted for him in 2016 but why she will not be voting for him again in November. The video has been widely circulated on Twitter.
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Even homophobic televangelist Pat Robertson seems to be turning on the president after fervently defending him for years. This week on The 700 Club, he actually spoke out against Trump’s recent behavior.
“It seems like now is the time to say, ‘I understand your pain, I want to comfort you, I think it’s time we love each other,'” Robertson said. “But the President took a different course. He said, ‘I am the “President of law and order,’ and he issued a heads-up.”
He continued, “He said, ‘I’m ready to send in military troops if the nation’s governors don’t act to quell the violence that has rocked American cities.’ A matter of fact, he spoke of them as being jerks. You just don’t do that, Mr. President. It isn’t cool!”
Robertson went on to decry racism, saying “we are one” and “God made us all.”
Meanwhile, in an interview with Sean Spicer this week, Trump claimed he has done “so much for religion” since taking office. He failed to elaborate, however, on what exactly he’s done.
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Mister P
It’s good some people are coming to their senses.
Gadfeal
What I don’t get is who are these 62%? I know one Trump supporter and he is a pariah married to a cousin.
Heywood Jablowme
But I thought they worship Trump now.
Cam
Also the poll mentioned that there is disapproval of the way Trump is handling the Corona virus response. I doubt that many of those hypocrites will vote for Biden, but if they just stay home it will be devastating for Trump who’s polling behind in Florida, Ohio, Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, PA etc.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
If he is polling behind Biden in Florida and Ohio that means he has already lost. I am now wondering who WON’T be speaking at the GOP convention. I’lll bet Ted Cruz, Murkowski of Alaska (including Ms. Knucklehead herself, Sarah Palin), Condoleeza Rice, and just about everyone else with a brain is going to bail on that GOP convention with no regards for political cost this time around. Enough is enough. Romney just might challenge him before its all over. Thats just how desperate the country has become.
Creamsicle
It’s not over until it’s over and it will NOT be over even if Joe Biden becomes president. We need to KEEP marching in the streets even under a Democrat, because what we need to deal with the viral and economic crises is real progressive policy, not the watered down Republican-lite that the Democratic party has become.
AOC said it best when she said that in a sane political system, she would not be in the same party as Joe Biden, but the progressive wing of the party has been largely abandoned because Boomers drank the cool-aid and accepted the deal of inflating their own worth at the expense of every subsequent generation.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
@Creamsicle…..For the past two weeks I have gone to bed at night remembering the question that now retired CBS Newsman Bob Scheiffer asked at the end of the second debate of 2016 “is this were we’ve fallen”. It was the disgust that both sides showed during that debate and he, just like I knew that one of them would end up the winner. The only thing I can think of at the present moment that will blow it for Biden is his choice for vice president. He has said he wants a woman for his vp but I think he should have kept his mouth shut on that. Biden shoots from the hip in a much more diplomatic manner than Trump but he too has his loose cannon moments. Personally I am not comfortable with him or Sanders because of their ages. Lets face it, if we have to chose octogenarians for leaders that means we did not think it important to groom leaders to take power as we matured. Didn’t some one on either side of the aisle know that as leaders age they have to be replaced? When Bob Dole got trounced by Clinton in 1996 the GOP leaders agreed its WW2 image and beliefs need a makeover. With Biden its the Vietnam war image and the mentality accompanying it that needs to change. Obama understood this which is why he miraculously remained center than left leaning. His speeches and reactions regarding Trevon Martin and Michael Brown should go down in history for every president to study as how to handle civil unrest. But we all know Trump can’t pick up a Marvel Comic book and translate what it was about without showing disinterest and I’ll bet he would be the same way if he tried to translate a speech about Hitler. The man is a complete idiot.
Biden notwithstanding we are in for a LONG hot summer. Barrons, a leading financial newspaper, said the other day in its headlines that the economic numbers are being manipulated. For me, that was to be expected. The Dow closed up 800 points today because 2.5 million jobs were created in May based on the latest numbers. Now gasoline is selling for thirty cents more per gallon than it was last week. The problem with that is those 2.5 million jobs were all in the food service industry, or lets say those jobs that were created pay between $8-12 per hour. Based on forty hours per week that is not enough money to support ones self let alone a mother trying to support a child. Wait and see what happens once landlords go to court and get the green light to evict tenants who are three months or better behind in their rent, have no savings, and even if they are in those numbers of returning workers they still do not make enough money to support themselves let alone pay back rents that are over $6k in some cases. Seattle, Portland, Oregon, Los Angeles, San Francisco, NYC and many other places two or three jobs are still the norm to barely make it and those jobs were gone. Be patient. The crap hasn’t hit the fan just yet, trust me. Those riots are nothing compared to whats coming. I had no idea until I saw a 60Minutes segment at the beginning of the pandemic that in the Pacific Northwest and Las Vegas that many whites are homeless and living in tents, under freeways and in cars. It seems they were there all along but as far as the rest of the country were being led to believe only blacks and latinos were homeless and living on the streets. As I said, be patient, the country is in BIG trouble no matter who pulls off a win. What scares us down here where I am is we are a country that is armed to the teeth and very angry about social conditions being allowed to reach the point they have and just about everyone is now convinced there is NO leadership now or any leadership coming anytime soon.
WSnyder
The country is hemorrhaging, badly. In lives, income, rights, principles, hope, and the list goes on and on. Will Biden [not my first, second or third choices] fix all that? NO. He can be the tourniquet that may staunch the flow but he’s not going to make it all better. I’m sad that I believe the damage done to our country may take a generation, or more, to repair. But there will be scars that may never go sway. So maybe you may not like Biden, but for f*ck sake if you learned ANYTHING from 2016 you can’t stay home, you can’t pout because your ‘guy’ or ‘girl’ isn’t on the ballot. GROW UP. Democracy is messy, we’re sometimes forced with two non-choices and me may have to choose one that’s better than the other. If we don’t get out and vote for Biden and don’t flip the Senate, and don’t flip some Governorships and don’t take back some State Legislators, we’ll never be able to start damage control. We won’t be able to reign-in brutal Police actions, we won’t get changes to help minorities get knees off their necks, women won’t get the right to their own bodies and make their own decisions on maternity, we won’t get aid to the unemployed, won’t help small businesses recover [or others to start up]. If you feel the need to protest [for ANYTHING] under a Biden Presidency, DO IT! But for GODS SAKE, SHOW UP in November and stop the whining that’s he’s not the best choice. HE’S THE ONLY CHOICE RIGHT NOW.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
From the article: “Some evangelicals have begun speaking out publicly about why they can no longer support Trump.”
Why haven’t any of those sanctimonious bstards spoken out before about his being the leader of a christian nation and asked when was the last time he and his family have been in church? A church not even a quarter mile away from the White House, mind you. And no, his attending the funeral of George H. Bush does not count. That was protocol, not religious faith.
GlenMartin
trumps two recent stunts to win back the evacuating evangelical base are blatant obvious attempts to win them back. He actually thinks he has the power to order the Supreme Court to ban LGBTQ citizens of adopting children. He actually thinks he can circumvent the process of changing laws by just ordering it to be done so. Change does not work that way. The bible fiasco is appalling and pathetic as he stood in front of a boarded up church holding a bible upside down with nothing to say to the public by sharing the teachings of it to support the protesters as he had the audacity to have those near the White House eliminated from the scene to protect his hypocritical ass. Jesus was the ultimate protester against all injustice against mankind and pompous religious leaders. trump’s lack of knowledge of anything has incited a chaos like we have never seen in modern history. Please fire his ass in November. Someone must be fitting a straight jacket for him as we speak with a muzzle sewn in to keep his mouth shut while being drug out of the White House. Now that would be a sight to be seen that would be most satisfying.
Jim
Lying, stealing, fornicating, all okay but holding a book upside down is they have a problem with!!!
Chrisk
Please. Just rats jumping off the ship before it sinks.
jina
lol
Jared MacBride
They’ll be back. They’ve nowhere else to go. Pence will hold them.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
If Pence had the worth of the weight of two dead ants he would already be president. The man is an ordained minister and its clear to any sanctimonious christian Trump has no morals. They are bailing out on Trump but they clearly aren’t flocking to Pence.
NateOcean
I see that Pence’s plan is working:
“Mr President, hold the bible upside down. It’s a signal to the religious that you ‘flipped’ for Jesus. They’ll love it!”
Pence then waits for the results. Excellent, my pretty.
okiloki
Seems like the woman in the video was immediately regretful of her vote for Trump and believes in equality for minorities so I am still skeptical that the vast majority of White evangelicals are turning from him. I just spoke with 2 ardent Trump evangelicals who were outraged at the riots and wanted all of the looters locked up and thought nothing of Trump using police to beat and teargas peaceful protesters for his photo op in front of a church. One lady even said it wasn’t a big deal to tear gas and shove people; she struck me as a cold hearted and selfish person who hid behind the Bible.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
Your speaking with two evangelicals and the opinion expressed in a video of one woman is too little for either side to say yes or no on whether they as an overall whole are abandoning him. Many evangelicals are feeling abandoned by the leaders of their own coalitions because their leaders can’t agree on a collective stance regarding what to do about the chaos that has gripped the nation. Deep down many of them know the real winner of the 2016 election is Putin. The man swore revenge in regards to the fall of the Soviet Union and its clear he is getting it, big time. I doubt even he knew we would fall apart this fast.
Chrisk
@Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
You make it sound like Evangelicals are logical thinking people. Yeah, most of them love Putin too. Mostly over his crackdown on gay rights and making Russia great again for white people. Beyond that they don’t give a shit.
Trump has done allot for them though. More right wing judges to elect and gay rights to quash. Anyone who thinks these people will see the light is naive at best. They hate the protesters as much as Trump does. Some might complain so they can sound compassionate but they’ll fall in line at the polls.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
@Chrisk….”Some might complain so they can sound compassionate but they’ll fall in line at the polls.”
I couldn’t agree with you more on that one. Back in 2008 right before the week or so before the Pennsylvania primary Mike Huckabee dropped out of the race. On primary day 250k people still voted for him over McCain and it is believed that all of them were evangelicals (Pa. is northern liberal on its east and west sides meaning Pittsburgh and Philly but all Alabama in the middle of those two cities).
Now, my dear, I think you are reading what you what to see in my post instead of what I actually said. But Iove you anyways. Have a nice Saturday, or whats left of it. Not all of them are stupid and don’t forget that Oklahoma is midwest even though its technically in the south. We dont all think the same regardless of our geographical location and the same thought applies to all evangelicals no matter where they are. Not even Mormons are one hundred percent unified believe it or not.
rocknstan
‘Ole Don looks like he’s passing razor blades over this one.
Could the red tide finallly be turning?
Mack
The Evangelicals aren’t going to leave Trump over that, they need his help to spread their hatred.
sjosephs
Don’t fool yourself. Trump supporters think he is their lord and savior and will vote for him no matter what. They are too afraid to voice their dissent so as not to upset their other evangelical friends. Now you know why this the most important election in a century.
J W G
Never underestimate the stupidity of American voters.