Last week, the media plotzed at the news that Donald Trump was "selling" Bibles. The narrative quickly emerged that Trump is so desperate for cash that he's resorting to becoming a bible salesman to help pay for his mounting legal bills. I have to admit that when I first heard about it, I cringed. From the headlines, I got the impression he was selling his own version of the Bible on his campaign website. This, of course, is not the case. Trump has simply endorsed the "God Bless the USA Bible," which includes a copy of the U.S. Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and the Pledge of Allegiance.
"Former President Donald Trump is now selling Bibles as he runs to return to the White House," the Associated Press reported. "The effort comes as Trump has faced a serious money crunch amid mounting legal bills while he fights four criminal indictments along with a series of civil charges."
CNN doubled down on pushing the narrative of Trump being a sleazy Bible salesman with a report about Christians finding Trump's endorsement of the bible sacrilegious. "Responses to Trump’s social media announcement called the endorsement 'sacrilege,' 'heresy' and 'borderline offensive' and cite lessons directly from the Bible that suggest taking advantage of people’s faith for money should be condemned," the report reads.
Bible sales do not benefit his presidential campaign, but since when does that matter?
HuffPost mocked the video Trump posted to Truth Social promoting the Bibles: "In the video, Trump suggests he’s more religious than he actually is and suggests he’s quite familiar with the Bible, despite evidence that he’s not."
Even the Biden-Harris campaign mocked Trump over the bibles.
Whether you agree or disagree with the appropriateness of a Trump-endorsed Bible, the same people who desperately accused Trump of sacrilege have been curiously less outraged by Biden's celebration of Transgender Day of Visibility on Easter Sunday. And Biden's insult to Christianity turned into a double whammy as Biden's proclamation declaring Easter Sunday Transgender Day of Visibility was made on Good Friday.
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“It is appalling and insulting that Joe Biden’s White House prohibited children from submitting religious egg designs for their Easter Art Event, and formally proclaimed Easter Sunday as ‘Trans Day of Visibility,’" Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said in a statement received by PJ Media. "Sadly, these are just two more examples of the Biden Administration’s years-long assault on the Christian faith. We call on Joe Biden’s failing campaign and White House to issue an apology to the millions of Catholics and Christians across America who believe tomorrow is for one celebration only — the resurrection of Jesus Christ.”
Joe Biden frequently portrays himself as a devout Catholic, and receives ample coverage lauding his faith, despite his stances on abortion, LGBTQ matters, and other topics that clash with Catholic doctrine. Yet the media never accuses him of being "less religious" than he claims to be.
The liberal media wasn't nearly as outraged about Biden's celebration of transgenderism on Easter as they were about Trump and the Bibles. Reports on Biden's proclamation took on the typical "Republicans pounce" boilerplate. While it's true that Transgender Day of Visibility is always on March 31, as of Saturday evening Biden has made no presidential proclamation or acknowledgement of either Good Friday or Easter Sunday.
In the end, I'd rather have a Trump-endorsed Bible than the celebration of "Transgender Visibility Day" on Easter Sunday. And frankly, only the latter seems sacrilegious to me.
