This is a live thread, I bet the title changes later. But this is what it reads now:
Iran live updates: Trump says Iran ‘can be taken out in one night’
“The entire country can be taken out in one night, and that night might be tomorrow night,” he said of Iran during a briefing at the White House.
What a Stable genius
So far as I know, there is no reason to think that Trump believes in the prosperity gospel. He wants the people who do to follow him, but I would be surprised if he believes in anything at all (including religion, philosophy, physics, and other human beings).
Actually, this one has some facts behind it. To the extent that Trump has any faith, it was shaped by Norman Vincent Peale, as the Trump family attended his church in Manhattan. Peale’s theology isn’t quite as “fuck poor people” as Prosperity Theology, but is just as narcissistic.
That’s a fair point. The prosperity gospel came along well after Peale’s time, but he probably would have liked it. He was another sociopath in the same mold.
Agreed. It’s not prosperity gospel. It’s the fact he’s never personally suffered the negative consequences of his actions. Someone has always been in his employ to fix it for him or he’s victimized someone by not paying them.
He waves his magic wand and things go his way, problems aren’t his problem.
Even deeper than that, he has narcissistic personality disorder and literally cannot tolerate ever being wrong or being viewed as weak. He’s also almost completely incapable of empathy and reduces the world around him to how everything and everyone can serve him personally
Maybe prosperity gospel is the wrong word, but he does believe that he can bend reality with force of will.
Not the part that requires to give anything. But the part that his belief somehow comes magically true.