During a recent speech to the North Carolina Democratic Party, President Barack Obama took the time to slam Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, and in the process, he tried to shame evangelicals who continue to support the GOP candidate.
Suggesting he knew how a majority of Republicans think, the president said it was “the habits you get into that create this kind of nominee.” He then suggested Trump couldn’t get a job at a convenience store due to the things he’s said.
“So the overwhelming majority of Republicans, they love their families, they love this country,” he said. “They’re good and decent people doing all kinds of good things. But what is true is, is that over the last eight, 10, depending on however long you want to say, if you’ve been only about obstruction, if in order to score political points, you tell your voter base crazy stuff—like I wasn’t born here, or that I’m a Muslim, or that—well, it’s just a long list—and you just repeat it over and over again, and so that your only agenda is negative, and you just make up facts—so if 99 percent of scientists say the planet is getting warmer and this is something you should worry about, and then you bring a snowball into the Senate chambers and say it was snowing outside so you must be wrong—using that as evidence to dispute scientists, that over time what happens is that you produce a nominee who is all about obstruction and insults, and makes up his own facts …
“[T]his is the habits that you get into that create this kind of nominee. And now you find a situation in which the guy says stuff that nobody would find tolerable if they were applying for a job at 7-11.”
Obama continued, eventually railing away at evangelicals. Saying he’s also a Christian, and “all about forgiveness,” he doesn’t understand how anyone could forgive the scandalous comments Trump made in the 2005 “hot mic” audio.
“I am certainly not perfect,” he said. “Nobody is perfect. And I, too, believe in forgiveness and redemption. But that doesn’t mean I’m going to elect the person president.
“You know, if somebody does something terrible or shows themselves to be unqualified for office, I can forgive them, I suppose, if they’re sincere about it. But I don’t want them necessarily leading the country, right? So you can’t have it both ways here. You can’t repeatedly denounce what is said by someone, and then say, but I’m still going to endorse them to be the most powerful person on the planet, and to put them in charge.”
Speaking as a Christian, Obama continued rail away at Republicans who have not “walked away” from Trump’s candidacy. Then, the mockery really kicked in:
“What did you think? He was just going to transform himself?” he asked, drawing laughter from the crowd. “I mean, I’m 55 and it’s hard for me to change. I know at 70 it’s going to be harder.”
There have been several people close to Donald Trump who have said the Republican nominee has accepted Christ as his personal savior. And, in denouncing his own 11-year-old comments, he has said that isn’t who he is anymore.
As a Christian, one might expect the president to know what the Bible says, specifically, about transformation:
Also, I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
—Ezekiel 36:26 (MEV)
Therefore, if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things have passed away. Look, all things have become new.
—2 Corinthians 5:17
The president then took a shot at conservative radio host Alex Jones, who is a professed Christian.
“I was reading the other day, there’s a guy on the radio who—apparently Trump is on his show frequently—he said me and Hillary are demons,” he said. “Said we ‘smell like sulfur.’ Ain’t that something?”
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