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Jokerman

(3,552 posts)
Wed Sep 10, 2025, 05:14 PM Sep 10

"We must all pray for Charlie Kirk"

Anyone else bothered by this statement from Trump?

I'm used to being asked to pray for someone but is an order, not a plea.

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"We must all pray for Charlie Kirk" (Original Post) Jokerman Sep 10 OP
Like DJT ever prayed a day in his life or cared enough about anyone else MIButterfly Sep 10 #1
No president---and certainly not Trump---EVER gets to tell me when and who to pray for Justice Brandeis Sep 10 #2
Yes. It is more Trump performative BS. Doodley Sep 10 #3
Too damn late for prayer now. cloudbase Sep 10 #4
He can have my THOUGHTS and PRAYERS. usonian Sep 10 #5
Fuck Trump IrishAfricanAmerican Sep 10 #6
Bummer.. prayers didn't work. mountain grammy Sep 10 #7
Give the guy a break ... 4th Sep 10 #8
No!!!!!!!!!!... Butterflylady Sep 10 #9
Not for kirk, but joshdawg Sep 10 #10
Trump has never prayed in his life Picaro Sep 10 #11
Neither have I, but that's not the point. Jokerman Sep 11 #13
Achtung! You vill pray for him by order uf Der Fuhrer! Wonder Why Sep 11 #12
The demented psych pedo Farmer-Rick Sep 12 #14
This is for trump PATRICK Sep 12 #15
It's not the performative BS from Trump that's the problem, it's the lickspittles firing people muriel_volestrangler Tuesday #16
FUT RussBLib Wednesday #17

MIButterfly

(1,302 posts)
1. Like DJT ever prayed a day in his life or cared enough about anyone else
Wed Sep 10, 2025, 05:17 PM
Sep 10

to ask anyone to pray for them. Someone must have told him to say that.

Justice Brandeis

(294 posts)
2. No president---and certainly not Trump---EVER gets to tell me when and who to pray for
Wed Sep 10, 2025, 05:18 PM
Sep 10

That is none of the government's business.

4th

(420 posts)
8. Give the guy a break ...
Wed Sep 10, 2025, 07:37 PM
Sep 10

... he's just pandering to his supporters. It's his job.

No one will be really have to pray. Least of all people who sort of believe in that shit.

Picaro

(2,187 posts)
11. Trump has never prayed in his life
Wed Sep 10, 2025, 09:24 PM
Sep 10

Love how this closet atheist is commanding us all to pray

Jokerman

(3,552 posts)
13. Neither have I, but that's not the point.
Thu Sep 11, 2025, 12:30 PM
Sep 11

Trump claims to be a christian but that doesn't make him a good person.

Just like being a bad person doesn't automatically make him "closet atheist".

My point is that no one, christian or otherwise should be ordering us to pray.

Farmer-Rick

(12,078 posts)
14. The demented psych pedo
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 09:29 AM
Sep 12

Convicted fraudster and sexual abuser who is stroking out gives me an order? That's the very escence of an illegal order.

PATRICK

(12,298 posts)
15. This is for trump
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 11:23 AM
Sep 12

It is too late when you are dead and called to judgment- said judgment based on what you dished out to others. You CAN pray for the living. Again, this is Trump thinking HIS people praying for him is something he can lean on to avoid repentance, reform or Judgment- if he is affected by any of these things.

Every old person can be affected by that empty contemplation of approaching death, regardless of faith. You put off your nightmare by projecting it on others, casting yourself in good toward others, frantic distraction or some phony peace of mind. Real death comes generally as a surprise. The afterlife is no concern of yours but of a God who you can only hope exists- or hope very much doesn't.

In any event, it is best to love everyone else and our fragile world- and be busy about it. That seems to dissipate self-fear and other-hatred well enough. Supposedly, this is the base behavior the Biblical God cares about more than tongue belief and ritual.

Trump, you are running out of time like the last sands in an hourglass. But time enough to change! It would be the most spectacular and positive thing he can point to in his entire life. His only unique achievement, his only chance at all. Does he care or is he just running from fear like an animal?

muriel_volestrangler

(104,746 posts)
16. It's not the performative BS from Trump that's the problem, it's the lickspittles firing people
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 03:03 PM
Tuesday

for daring to quote Kirk and criticize him. Or the Trump regime now talking about attacking The Nation for publishing something like that. Or confiscating US passports.

https://www.wonkette.com/p/jd-vance-has-jolly-time-hosting-hitler
https://www.wonkette.com/p/should-marco-rubio-get-to-seize-your

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