Donald Trump, a self-described Christian, issued a shockingly crude threat on Easter Sunday. Five weeks into his unnecessary war of choice with Iran, he ordered the country to “Open the F**kin’ Strait” of Hormuz to international oil tankers or he would bomb civilian infrastructure like power plants and bridges, a war crime that would have killed untold numbers of people. That the president’s intent was genocidal is indisputable, as he later threatened to destroy a “whole civilization.”
But just a few days before he invoked the mass murder of civilians, Trump hosted an Easter luncheon at the White House, where he enjoyed being compared to Jesus Christ by his friend Paula White, a popular evangelical minister who also heads the White House Faith Office. “Mr. President, no one has paid the price like you have paid the price. You were betrayed and arrested and falsely accused,” she said, even though there is no evidence that Trump’s dozens of indictments were based on false allegations. “It’s a familiar pattern that our Lord and Savior showed us.”
