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Obama put his hand on the Constitution. Maybe this is a sarcastic meme? I don't know
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.
I didn't know there were green sayings
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.
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?
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.
Yeah it is just a custom. But the point still stands.
Some odd books people have been sworn in on:
Oh, The Places You Will Go - Dr. Seuss
The Autobiography of Malcom X
A Superman Comic
Ugh, now you're going to make me look up who swore in under Dr. Seuss.
We were duped, it wasn't a president. Still cool though. Thanks for the link, you posted it twice if you don't know by the by
Well, who was it?
Edit: https://abcnews.go.com/US/missouri-councilwoman-dr-seuss-book-sworn-office/story?id=65096396
Yeah aside from the whole using the Jesus vote to win thing.
Is it possible he actually thinks he would go to hell if he did?
The part that blows me away is that he is so forgetful he missed an easy marketing ploy. Dude endorsed a Bible and didn't call them up, ask for a % proceed and bring his own Bible to the inauguration, then put advertisements up for "Get your own copy of the God Bless the USA Bible, the official Bible Trump swore into office on"
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.
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.
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
Well you're conveniently forgetting that Obama had the fucking audacity to ~~eat dijon mustard~~ ~~wear a tan suit~~ be black.
And tan suit which is an anagram for satanic (well, almost…)
satunit
Suitanic
tan suiite
What a dick move of him!
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.
I think you might be on to something
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
What happened?
Trump broke with tradition and didn't put his hand on the Bible during his inauguration.
One might expect to hear conservative Christians squawking about it, but they have been notably quiet.
Can you not read?
Maybe for a meme it has too many words
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
White cis het male supremacy.
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.