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Honestly, the current situation is beyond double standards. The Republicans have free reign to more or less break any of their own rules and suffer almost no consequences. Meanwhile, literally anything a Democrat does is spun into multiple mutually exclusive conspiracy theories that their base and the media somehow manage to spout simultaneously.
Well you're conveniently forgetting that Obama had the fucking audacity to ~~eat dijon mustard~~ ~~wear a tan suit~~ be black.
If one of Obama's friends would've done a nazi salute behind the presidential seal, the Republicans would've lynched Obama on the lawn of the white house
Big Antichrist vibes. Would it have burned his hand? I guess will never know.
You guys are overthinking it. Hand to small and weak to put on bible.
or bible too big, make hand look even smaller.
I think we can safely assume it would have. Why else wouldn't he want to touch Jesus Book?
He already did during his last term.
But he held it upside down, maybe that has some theological implications.
He held something upside down, nobody really knows what it actually was.
Sadly I think it would have been more than half. Personally I'd like less of the Bible in any of our swear ins, but Orange Hitler not doing it just keeps the process rolling forward.
The person can choose what they swear on. He chose the bible, then failed to use it.
Whoever succeeds trump, (assuming that happens, and it's not Vance), should do the same thing, so we can maybe get rid of that dumbass tradition.
"we separate church and state" Church throwing bibles at every god damn state and court event and making people swear on them.
Not to be annoying but it is in fact your business
He was probably afraid of getting struck by divine lightning or something like that if he touched a Bible while uttering the words with no intentions to follow them.
white ~~christian~~ supremacy
Hell, even the racism and fake Christianity are just bones they toss to the base while doing their real business.
Fascism will always find an out crowd
Did the orange turd or someone else do that?
Orange turd.
He actually did take the oath without putting his hand on a bible and they did try to make a big deal about it.
John Roberts messed up the oath during the inauguration and they had to redo it later.
During the do-over there was no bible: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_inauguration_of_Barack_Obama
It is absolutely not a requirement to swear an oath on a bible, or even to have a bible nearby.
It just happens to be a longstanding custom in the USA. Many politicians take the oath on a bible just for the optics. DT, of all people, is all about optics. Dude probably wasn’t paying any attention, and surely winging his swearing given the last minute changes.
In any case, shouldn't everyone be applauding a president for refusing to touch a bible, tacitly denouncing religious contexts near government?
Except when Trump was asked what his favorite book of all time was, can you guess what he answered?
That's right. He said The Bible was his favorite book. You do understand the difference between actually believing in something, or just being a hypocrite and a con-man, right?
It's not about whether it's a requirement or not. It's about a con artist revealing the con, and watching people like you handwave it away.
Bible is surely a disgrace and pathetic.
It's understandable and I agree that no President should ever lay hands on that comic.
I do believe 100% that Trump would've easily laid his hand on the book Mein Kempf.
As if they actually cared about such matters. It would have only been just another excuse to stoke moral panic and outrage as red meat for their rabid base.
It’s exactly the sort of cynicism that, by design and intent, leads to apathy and fascism
This is just the childish act of crossing your fingers when you make a promise. He didn't put his hand on the Bible because he isn't planning on presiding faithfully, and he has absolutely no intention whatsoever to preserve, protect or defend the Constitution of the United States unless it benefits him personally at the time.
It's the ceremony organizers' fault for neglecting to bring a bible small enough to put his hand on.