The Orange Jesus Thing

Joe Klein: “Okay, this thing is getting pretty weird now. If you haven’t seen the ‘God Made Trump’ ad… you absolutely must. I thought it was a joke at first—a parody ad you might see on Saturday Night Live. But it’s not. Trump’s campaign is responsible for this satanic heresy. It represents a new level of craziness—the Orange Jesus thing made manifest. Trump is embracing his inner messiah.”

“And it represents a certain reality in the Republican Party: I watched a clip of a Trump voter in Iowa the other day, a woman, who said—calmly, with the utter conviction of a mind-snatched cultist—that the legal cases against Big Orange were a sign from God that Trump had been sent to suffer for our sins. We have entered the Elmer Gantry stage of the Trump candidacy. It’s getting to be overtly religious.”

“And Trump himself seems to think he can walk on water. He can say any outrageous thing—that he hopes, for example, the economy will crash in the next year—without consequence. This week he had his lawyers affirm in Washington’s District Court of Appeals, that as President he could order Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political opponent and not be prosecuted for it unless he was tried and impeached by the Congress.”