{"id":72418,"date":"2026-04-22T13:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/what-trumps-bible-stunt-says-about-his-complicated-history-with-christianity\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T13:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:55:11","slug":"what-trumps-bible-stunt-says-about-his-complicated-history-with-christianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/what-trumps-bible-stunt-says-about-his-complicated-history-with-christianity\/","title":{"rendered":"What Trump\u2019s Bible stunt says about his complicated history with Christianity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, the president read from the Bible in a taped message. Religious scholars were not impressed<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>This was originally published in This Week in Trumpland. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/apr\/25\/election-newsletter-sign-up-stakes\">Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Wednesday<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Donald Trump, who recently posted an image on social media which portrayed him as Jesus Christ (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/15\/donald-trump-ai-images-jesus\">or, rather, \u201ca doctor\u201d<\/a>), and who seems unable to stop attacking the pope, read the Bible to America on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting behind his desk in the Oval Office, hands resting on a book that looked like a Bible, Trump stared straight into the camera (presumably there was a teleprompter) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7oqyMMBAapY\">as he recited from the book 2 Chronicles<\/a>. It\u2019s a passage which has become fashionable among the right wing, and which quotes God as saying:<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/22\/trumps-special-relationship-with-christianity\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, the president read from the Bible in a taped message. Religious scholars were not impressed This was originally published in This Week in Trumpland. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Wednesday Donald Trump, who recently posted an image on social media which portrayed him as Jesus Christ (or, rather, \u201ca &#8230; <a title=\"What Trump\u2019s Bible stunt says about his complicated history with Christianity\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/what-trumps-bible-stunt-says-about-his-complicated-history-with-christianity\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about What Trump\u2019s Bible stunt says about his complicated history with Christianity\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}