Many of Trump’s hangers-on agree, or agree to say, that Trump was chosen by God to be President. Taking this B.S. seriously for a moment, I’ve got to ask: Why did God choose him? Oh, the evangelicals and politicians that are in bed with them will tell us that, sure, Trump’s religion is bogus and he behaves like a reprobate, but like the pagan King Ahasuerus who allowed the Jews to kill their enemies (75,000 in all, Esther 9:160) or Cyrus the Great who ended the Babylonian Captivity, Trump will defend the righteous and make them rich.

But it seems to me that Trump might be chosen instead as a punishment from God, like Rehoboam who, after his tyranny provoked a civil war, was left with half his Kingdom, and when the Egyptians invaded, gave them the treasures of the Temple by way of tribute and made Judah a vassal state of Egypt. Or he might be a punishment more like Nabuchadnezzar II whose slogan was “Make Babylon great again.” He destroyed Solomon’s Temple, took the people captive to Babylon, demanded they worship the idol he erected, and in the end went insane.