Bible-toting Trump defends Christmas, slams Rubio

Trump, who has nearly certainly never read the Bible, despite using it as a caricature of a crutch on the campaign trail, is simply not very good at speaking the language of self-described values voters. “I love Christmas. I love Christmas”, he declared as the audience applauded, assuring them that he would bring back the phrase “Merry Christmas” if elected president.

Republican presidential candidate Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA) spoke Friday in Washington, DC at the Family Research Council’s 10th annual Values Voter Summit.

“We have a president who consistently tests the limits of his powers”, he said. Marco Rubio of Florida, another presidential candidate.

“It would have enormous repercussions for USA trade, because if the US followed through, I’m sure other countries would retaliate”, he said.

Trump repeated his criticism of the Iranian nuclear deal, which he said was negotiated by “grossly incompetent people”, said President Obama was “extremely bad on all the things the folks in this room stand for”, and criticized congressional Republicans as “babies” for being too quick to concede to the Democrats.

Smith ends his piece by claiming that evangelicals “look at Trump and see a man whose political positions, personal lifestyle, and bombastic rhetoric are not consistent with what they know their evangelical doctrine and theology teaches”.

Eller and her husband, Anthony, said they are seriously supporting Trump and aren’t just window shopping.

Trump later closed out his speech by hoisting his Bible in the air and declaring “this is the key”.

Donald Trump took the opportunity to defend Christmas, which many Republicans believe is under attack by secularists in the government. Writers in this camp typically cite an arsenal of polls lending credence to their suggestion that evangelicals favor Trump.

According to previously reported tax documents, the Donald J. Trump Foundation has given to numerous Christian causes in recent years, including $100,000 to the Billy Graham Evangelist Association in 2012, as well as ministries as far away as Debra George Ministries in Texas and the Ramp Church in Lynchburg, Virginia. He’s now helping to organize Monday’s gathering along with televangelist Paula White. Yet, I see a much more troubling trend at work in our relationship to Donald Trump. The boos continued as Trump talked through them, saying, “I’ve been so nice to him”.