Daniel Wolfram
A new ad with a booming biblical narration and claims of divine intervention is shown at Trump rallies. Is the taxpayer-funded video turning political rallies into an eerie display of cult-like devotion?
Ever wondered what goes on inside a Trump rally?
Not the speech itself by the president, which usually lasts up to two hours and is broadcast and clipped into small videos on social media. But what happens before the speech?
A brand-new video shows what precedes Trump’s speeches: a very strange biblical ad about Trump that is supposed to warm up the crowd. And it is paid for by the hard-earned taxes of the American people.
‘God gave us Trump’
A video that has played at all of Trump’s rallies during the month of October is an ad for Trump’s prowess. In the video, a man some would characterize as having a “godly voice” praises the president for the job he has done and hints that Trump was personally delivered by God.
“God looked down on the planned paradise and said, ‘I need a caretaker.’ So God gave us Trump.”
It somehow gets stranger in the ad with the man in the video talking about the job Trump is doing as president in very specific terms.
“God said, ‘I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, fix this country, work all day, fight the Marxists, eat supper, then go to the Oval Office and stay past midnight at a meeting with the heads of state.’ So God made Trump.”
Here is the ad:
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The ad is paid for by American taxpayers.
The Trump administration calls the ad a “public service announcement,” and it was first shown during Trump-a-Palooza, the Republican midterm convention in Dallas back in September.
According to The Independent, the White House has spent $20 million on these ad campaign videos. There has been subsequent controversy surrounding these videos on whether or not using taxpayer money for partisan ads violates federal law.
Even Republican Senator John Kennedy from Louisiana said to CBS, “I don’t think any public official, including President Trump or Kristi Noem or John Kennedy, should spend public money on private ads for themselves.”
In the public’s best interest?
Trump has since promised to pay for the ads himself. However, as of this writing, that has not happened yet.
And while the Trump administration claims that these ads are in the public’s best interest, critics are arguing that the videos can be considered personal promotion.
One of the last lines in the video says, “I need somebody with arms strong enough to wrestle the deep state, and yet gentle enough to deliver his own grandchild. So God gave us Trump.”
The question then becomes if it is personal exposure and political promotion by insinuating that Trump has personally been a midwife during the birth of one of his grandchildren.
