By Rev. Curtis E. Gatewood
I made it my business to watch much of the Republican National Convention (RNC) in its entirety to get a full analysis without having to rely on the narrative of the media and partisan political pundits. I also wanted to see Trump speak following the “assassination attempt” and to see if he was actually this changed man who had moved closer to God as a result of his supposed tragic encounter with death.
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For the most part, I could see what might would have been described as a “successful convention” or attempt, if the goal was to win over new audiences and present us a born-again Trump who God saved to save this nation. However, that “success” would be totally undone by the end of what would go down in history as “the longest acceptance speech in modern history!” The longer it went, the wronger it became. What started out as God’s grace and unity, would become more and more the words of the devil and division.
For the most part, I could see what might would have been described as a “successful convention” or attempt, if the goal was to win over new audiences and present us a born-again Trump who God saved to save this nation. However, that “success” would be totally undone by the end of what would go down in history as “the longest acceptance speech in modern history!” The longer it went, the wronger it became. What started out as God’s grace and unity, would become more and more the words of the devil and division.
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Evidently, the Trump family, the teleprompter, speechwriters, and acting producers tried to take a wolf and put him in sheep’s clothing; they tried their best to package and sell America a new heroic and unifying Trump who had divinely escaped an assassin’s bullet to be “saved by God,” as God’s prophet from the heavens to save this lost country.
Well, the plot seemed to working for about 4 nights. They had us all almost in tears, ready to run to the polls and elect God’s chosen one, until the moment of truth walked up to the podium – Donald J. Trump. If the fool had only read what the play writers wrote for him to say, they could have hung up their sign at the end of their convention – “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.”
Evidently, the Trump family, the teleprompter, speechwriters, and acting producers tried to take a wolf and put him in sheep’s clothing; they tried their best to package and sell America a new heroic and unifying Trump who had divinely escaped an assassin’s bullet to be “saved by God,” as God’s prophet from the heavens to save this lost country.
Well, the plot seemed to working for about 4 nights. They had us all almost in tears, ready to run to the polls and elect God’s chosen one, until the moment of truth walked up to the podium – Donald J. Trump. If the fool had only read what the play writers wrote for him to say, they could have hung up their sign at the end of their convention – “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.”
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But unfortunately for them, the REAL GOD, stepped in and took Trump off script; GOD took Trump away from the teleprompter of deceit and threw him back into the bowels of hell where his apparent TRUE source of “inspiration” – The Devil, ensured the world that Trump was the same arrogant and lie-telling trickster whose soul was never reborn; whose tongue would continue sinfully dripping with the pathological lies of White nationalism, the incitement of intolerance, an encourager of police misconduct and excessive violence, the perpetrator of vindictiveness, the spewer of racism, the epitome of misogyny, the driver of self-aggrandizement, the arrogant driver of egotisticalism, the campaigner of division, the voice of anti-immigrant-of-color, and “the champion” of backwardism and out-right-foolery.
But unfortunately for them, the REAL GOD, stepped in and took Trump off script; GOD took Trump away from the teleprompter of deceit and threw him back into the bowels of hell where his apparent TRUE source of “inspiration” – The Devil, ensured the world that Trump was the same arrogant and lie-telling trickster whose soul was never reborn; whose tongue would continue sinfully dripping with the pathological lies of White nationalism, the incitement of intolerance, an encourager of police misconduct and excessive violence, the perpetrator of vindictiveness, the spewer of racism, the epitome of misogyny, the driver of self-aggrandizement, the arrogant driver of egotisticalism, the campaigner of division, the voice of anti-immigrant-of-color, and “the champion” of backwardism and out-right-foolery.
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By the end of his rant which has become the longest acceptance speech in history, Trump may as well had taken that oversized bandaid off his ear and said, “forget every Godly thing that was said or done at this convention or written inside this teleprompter, I remain a no-good lying wolf and the sheep’s clothing they made me wear are about 47 sizes too small – I came to do the will of my Father who is not God, but the devil, who came but to kill, and to steal, and to destroy.”
By the end of his rant which has become the longest acceptance speech in history, Trump may as well had taken that oversized bandaid off his ear and said, “forget every Godly thing that was said or done at this convention or written inside this teleprompter, I remain a no-good lying wolf and the sheep’s clothing they made me wear are about 47 sizes too small – I came to do the will of my Father who is not God, but the devil, who came but to kill, and to steal, and to destroy.”