On Thursday, the evangelical publication Christianity Today epically took down Pres. Donald Trump by saying that he must be removed from office.
Whether Mr. Trump should be removed from office by the Senate or by popular vote next election—that is a matter of prudential judgment. That he should be removed, we believe, is not a matter of partisan loyalties but loyalty to the Creator of the Ten Commandments.
Oh, snap, right? When a Republican has pissed off the Fundies, you know that Republican is corrupt.
Well, predictably, Trump hit back at Christianity Today this morning on Twitter, but he inadvertently called them by the wrong name: ET.
“No President has done more for the Evangelical community, and it’s not even close. You’ll not get anything from those Dems on stage. I won’t be reading ET again!” the president added.
A far left magazine, or very “progressive,” as some would call it, which has been doing poorly and hasn’t been involved with the Billy Graham family for many years, Christianity Today, knows nothing about reading a perfect transcript of a routine phone call and would rather…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 20, 2019
Let’s lay out a few facts.
- Donald Trump does not read Christianity Today, or rather, as he apparently thinks it’s called, “Evangelical Today.”
- Donald Trump probably didn’t even read the article.
- Donald Trump does not read, period.
Trump also called the unquestionably conservative publication a “far-left magazine, or very progressive.”
….have a Radical Left nonbeliever, who wants to take your religion & your guns, than Donald Trump as your President. No President has done more for the Evangelical community, and it’s not even close. You’ll not get anything from those Dems on stage. I won’t be reading ET again!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 20, 2019
Well, is Christianity Today indeed a “far left” magazine? Mark Galli, the author of the piece, responded to Trump’s tweets on CNN’s New Day on Friday morning.
“Correct, yeah. Well, I suppose I can be somewhat complimented that the president thought it was worth commenting on. Naturally, I disagree with him on seven or eight different levels. His characterization of us as being far-left is far from accurate. We consider ourselves, and most people consider us, a pretty centrist magazine in the evangelical world. We’re certainly not far-right, and I suppose anyone who’s not far-right, he would consider far-left. And that’s his right to say that. It’s factually inaccurate we’re far-left,” Galli stated.
He continued, clarifying how his publication handles politics.
“We rarely comment on politics unless we feel it rises to the level of some national concern that is really important,” he went on. “And this would be a case. We wrote editorials about Clinton during his impeachment process. We wrote editorials about Nixon during his. This struck me as rising to that level, and it needed comment.”
Trump has enjoyed strong support from the evangelical community. Will the Christianity Today piece affect how the Fundies vote? One of my friends, who is a common-sense evangelical, says “probably not.”
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