Comment: Trump's Dubious Photo-Op

In certain countries around the world, an image has surfaced of President Trump holding up a Pentecostal bible in front of a church. The reason it's trending is the utter hypocrisy of his words against his actual actions leading up to the photograph being taken. While giving a press conference and reading from a monitor of a platitude-ridden speech, claiming his desire to protect peaceful protesters from the evil looters and planted trouble makers, in front of the WH, peaceful people are being gassed, shot at and beat -up, to pave the way for Trump to have his photograph taken. This is the height of verbalising one thing while doing the opposite. To my way of thinking, this exposes Trump as to who he really is...a liar and a coward.

It was only the night before, as the protests over the murder of George Floyd was gaining momentum at the gates of the White House, that suddenly all went dark – for the first time in recent memory, the WH lights were extinguished, and reports say, that Trump ran for the safety in an under ground bunker. This was a cowardly action to take. What makes it worse was the president's platitudes the next day, and the violence taken on peaceful protesters, contradicting his speech entirely.

Over the 2 and some years of writing this BLOG, there are perhaps 3 or 4 entries devoted to criticising Trump. This was a conscious effort of course, because everybody and his cat who dislikes the president, has made it their mission to bring him down. Generally I prefer to criticise his administration on foreign policies, but this blatant act of cowardice and hypocrisy, cannot go by without comment.

When things go wrong in the US, Trump's first response is to blame someone or something else. Similar to a spoilt, pubescent child, taking responsibility for one's actions remains an abstract concept. Most of us, however, grow to understand that personal responsibility is an indication of emotional and intellectual maturity. Because Trump was born with a golden spoon in his mouth, a man who has been given everything without that responsibility required for those things, this stage of emotional stage never had the opportunity to develop, hence we have a man-baby as president of the United States.

But these latest actions in hypocrisy, not only reveal an arrested development emotionally, but a deep-seated narcissistic trait of absolute unawareness of the outside environment, meaning a lack of empathy for others, and a view that the world only revolves around him.

The actual photo-op, the image of the president holding up a Pentecostal bible reveals further hypocrisy, because we know, Trump doesn't read, let alone the prose of the Bible, because the Good Book is way above his actual literacy level. This circus act was purely for his 'fake christian', evangelical followers, and nothing more.

The reason this story has gone viral around the planet, is the blatant showboat walk to the Church when only before, the peaceful protesters were shot, gassed and bullied out of the way. More astonishing, some right wing supporters compare this “walk” to Churchill, after London was bombed, walking amongst the ruins in support of the English people. This is absolute spin, propaganda, and utterly disgusting. Bone-spur Trump is all bark and no bite: A bully and a coward, as all bullies are, scared and weak.

We can see these actions and inaction's, this utter hypocrisy, around the planet concerning Trump's “leadership”.

I hope that the majority of the American people can see it as well.