US President Donald Trump has excoriated Christianity Today magazine for demanding his dismissal, referring to it as “ET” in his rage. Then he bragged about raising the “smocking” age, further triggering his new editors.
Trump warned his supporters that the magazine Christianity Today, which published an editorial calling for him to leave office on religious grounds earlier this week, had degenerated into a “far left magazine” in a tweet on Friday. The periodical “would rather have a Radical Left nonbeliever, who wants to take your religion & your guns, than Donald Trump as your President,” he fumed.
….have a Radical Left nonbeliever, who wants to take your religion & your guns, than Donald Trump as your President. No President has done more for the Evangelical community, and it’s not even close. You’ll not get anything from those Dems on stage. I won’t be reading ET again!
Complaining that he’d “done more for the Evangelical community” than any other president, Trump vowed that he “won’t be reading ET again!” Except the initials of the magazine, founded by televangelist Billy Graham, father of Trump-supporting evangelist Franklin Graham, are ‘CT.’
Twitter pounced, offering up various “ETs” for consideration. Did the president think the magazine was called “Evangelism Today”? Or did he suffer a Freudian slip while contemplating Space Force, whose creation is included in the 2020 military spending budget?
#Impeached45 If you won't be reading "ET" again, does this mean you're cancelling "Space Force?" And how does someone "read ET?" https://t.co/WQOLpwvZ0e
Some even questioned Trump’s Christian bona fides.
The man who just yesterday derided a dead American hero and his widow; who cheated on his third wife with a porn star while she was at home caring for their newborn; who separates children from parents; want you to believe Christianity Today knows nothing about being Christian.
Oh, by all means, let’s hear more about true Christianity from a guy who never goes to Church, can’t quote a single Bible verse, cheated on all three of his wives, mocks the disabled, and steals from his own charity.
Trump later tweeted out a list of the “BIG” things accomplished by the $738 billion defense bill he planned to sign later that day, finishing with “raises smocking age to 21!”
Twitter, already primed by the ET/CT Freudian slip, went wild, and Trump went to the unusual length of deleting his tweet, though not before seemingly half the platform’s users had screen-shotted it.
This tweet was deleted and correct fast for plausible deniability. He does this often. Smocking is not a misspelling. He’s communicating with you to prevent violating state secrets. It’s up to you to do the research. #Qanon 🇺🇸🐸 pic.twitter.com/XLvMcJFa46
People making fun of the President for saying "smocking" are just showing their own ignorance! Smocking is a word: it's the process of making covfefe more bigly–developed in Nambia by Dr. John Barron & his team (David Dennison among them). So, who's laughing now? #smockingpic.twitter.com/lTmCXqaYEU
Intentionally misspelling a word in a tweet so that partisan opponents will willingly spread the Tweet in its entirety, thus further distributing your key message.
