It does not actually matter, but it is worth mentioning that conservatives will and have often lost their shit over non Republicans who are sworn into Congress or the Senate without their hand on a Bible, or will just entirely make up stories that claim they did not, and then state that this makes them not actually have any legal authority.
There are fucktons of examples of this in the last 2 decades, it is basically a room temperature IQ criticism or fabrication that is routinely thrown by Republicans and conservatives at Democrats.
If Trump actually didn’t swear in whilst touching a Bible, it does not actually matter, but it does illustrate the general idiocy and hypocrisy of Republican rhetoric.
Not concern with the Book I know that. What’s makes it weird is he pretending to swear into a book and doesn’t he attempt to place his hand on said book. Swear in anyway you want. But don’t act all christian by bringing in the bible and not even swear in on it. Fucking hands at his side. Might as well said fuck it and left his other hand down too.
It’s not a big deal to me, but what I’m interested in seeing is how believers who support him will either ignore it or make some excuses. It SHOULD be a big deal for them, but when you’re in a cult…
It’s just tradition and not required. John Quincy Adams used a law book to swear in on, and Teddy Roosevelt didn’t use anything.
Trump is no Teddy Roosevelt in any stretch of the imagination though.
It does not actually matter, but it is worth mentioning that conservatives will and have often lost their shit over non Republicans who are sworn into Congress or the Senate without their hand on a Bible, or will just entirely make up stories that claim they did not, and then state that this makes them not actually have any legal authority.
https://www.factcheck.org/2019/01/bibles-arent-required-for-the-oath-of-office/
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-omar-tlaib-bible-b1793806.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/13/us/politics/roy-moore-bible-ted-crockett.html
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/congressional-swearing-quran/
There are fucktons of examples of this in the last 2 decades, it is basically a room temperature IQ criticism or fabrication that is routinely thrown by Republicans and conservatives at Democrats.
If Trump actually didn’t swear in whilst touching a Bible, it does not actually matter, but it does illustrate the general idiocy and hypocrisy of Republican rhetoric.
Not concern with the Book I know that. What’s makes it weird is he pretending to swear into a book and doesn’t he attempt to place his hand on said book. Swear in anyway you want. But don’t act all christian by bringing in the bible and not even swear in on it. Fucking hands at his side. Might as well said fuck it and left his other hand down too.
It’s not a big deal to me, but what I’m interested in seeing is how believers who support him will either ignore it or make some excuses. It SHOULD be a big deal for them, but when you’re in a cult…
If they didn’t have double standards they wouldn’t have any at all
All of the above is true.
I think it’s more likely that he didn’t put his hand on the book because he has no idea what’s going on.
I hope this actually sets a modern precedent where the next President doesn’t have to pretend to be Christian.
But he is pretending to be Christian.