“A Chinese printing company … shipped 120,000 of “God Bless the USA” Bibles to the USA. Three separate shipments cost $342,000, averaging out to $3 per Bible. Trump is selling hand-signed copies of his branded Bible for $1,000, and the minimum price for an unsigned copy is $59.99.”
The New Republic
Donald Trump, the grifter-in-chief, is on a pre-election grifting blitz, peddling Trump coins, Trump watches and Trump digital trading cards.
In his campaign stump speech Donald Trump (Mr. America First) never fails to lambast China for hurting American businesses and taking American jobs. He boasts that if he wins the election on Day One, he will institute tariffs against Chinese imports. I wonder if he will impose a tariff on his Bible.
Gold gilded pages and a leather cover doesn’t make a Bible valuable, it’s priceless because to secular Americans it’s great literature and to evangelicals it’s the inspired Word of God.
A lover of literature or a seeker of truth doesn’t need to fork over $1000, $59.99 or even three bucks for a Bible, there are many Christian ministries that provide free copies.
If Trump really cared about evangelical’s desire to spread the Gospel, he would distribute Bibles free of charge.
The Orange Shepherd doesn’t see his MAGA evangelical base as sheep to protect and enlighten, but as rubes ready for fleecing.