New reporting makes Trump-branded Bibles look even more absurd

[LetMyPeopleVote]

The “God Bless the U.S.A. Bible” was already controversial, and now new reporting about the books indicates they were printed in China.

Link to tweet

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/new-reporting-makes-trump-branded-bibles-look-even-absurd-rcna174905

But as relevant as such details are, a related question hangs overhead: Does Trump really want to talk about connections to China right now? An Associated Press report published this week suggests it’s a topic he should probably try to avoid.

Thousands of copies of Donald Trump’s ‘God Bless the USA’ Bible were printed in a country that the former president has repeatedly accused of stealing American jobs and engaging in unfair trade practices — China. Global trade records reviewed by The Associated Press show a printing company in China’s eastern city of Hangzhou shipped close to 120,000 of the Bibles to the United States between early February and late March.

The AP’s report, which has not been independently verified by MSNBC or NBC News, went on to note that the Trump Bible’s China connection “reveals a deep divide between the former president’s harsh anti-China rhetoric and his rush to cash in while campaigning.”.....

It includes a copy of a King James translation of scripture (which, incidentally, is available for free from a variety of sources) along with the texts of the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence and the Pledge of Allegiance — all of which are also available for free from a variety of sources.

What do the United States’ founding documents have to do with the Christian Bible? Effectively nothing. Why would people pay $59.99 for free texts? Your guess is as good as mine. Is all of this blasphemous? That's not for me to say, though some critics have certainly pressed this point.

But if the Associated Press report is correct, the story looks even worse now: The Chinese company making the product produces the Bibles for roughly $3 per book. Trump and his business partners are then charging 20 times that amount, all while complaining on the campaign trail about companies that produce products in China instead of the U.S.

The next time the GOP candidate talks about how great it’ll be when he imposes tariffs on Chinese imports, it’s worth pausing to wonder whether Trump intends to give a waiver to his own products that are being produced in China.

[Lovie777]

1. Does his name appear alongside the apostles?

[Jmb 4 Harris-Walz]

4. I recall President Obama saying in his stump speech that Trump's name was near Matthew and Luke... haha

Am also sure he was being

[Jack Valentino]

8. Hah! Indeed.

"There were some difficulties... but now that President Kimba's Trump's name is included in the Lord's Prayer,
there are no more problems."

~ from The Dogs of War

[hlthe2b]

2. It is also missing the 11th-17th Amendments with the constitution included--that means the anti-slavery

and women & black people the right to vote amendments. In the words of Dana Carvey: "How con..veee..nient!"

https://meidasnews.com/news/amendment-abolishing-slavery-missing-from-trumps-bible

[Hekate]

7. What a coinkydink

[Jack Valentino]

9. Unconscionable.... but the man Has no conscience

Must be part of that "termination" of the Constitution, or parts of it, of which he has previously spoken.

[SWBTATTReg]

3. This bashing of China by tRUMP and his thugs, continues despite the fact that his family (via a daughter) and others

do have dealings w/ China (tRUMP's stupid bibles too).

The greater crime here not being reported by news outlets is that tRUMP should be buying American, and instead, he's still going to China to do business.

Talk about being un-American and a hypocrite.

[lame54]

5. He removed all the Nots...

From the 10 Commandments

[kimbutgar]

6. Fools and their money parted for a blasphemous lying sack of shit!

Suckers buys a Bible made in China for $4 while he charges them $60!

His followers are a special kind of stupid.

[Emrys]

10. Tim Walz is on the case: