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Trump, 79, admitted to Fox News on Tuesday that he feels he is “at the bottom of the totem pole” regarding his odds of making it to the promised land, leading many to ponder: Why is the president suddenly so hell-bent on making it to the pearly gates?

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[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 139 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Trump took my job in April. Trump placed tariffs so the economy is crashing. Trump fired the lady that was reporting on new job creation. The metrics that track the chances of me getting a new job are falsified.

I hope he dies. I hope he dies alone and is scared in the end. I hope he dies before I become homeless. Damn him until the seas dry and the land ashens. Damn him until time itself shatters.

[–] DoGeeseSeeGod@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Those last two lines are fire my friend. Good luck on the job search

[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Thanks, I need it.

[–] iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I hope he dies in terror while surrounded by brown and black people.

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[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 119 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

A malignant narcissist, rapist, molester, pedophile, repeat adulterer, pathological liar, who's primary personality traits include gloating, overt cruelty and hatred getting into any version of heaven? Add in the estimated 1.5 million Americans who unnecessarily lost their lives due to Trump's deliberate politicizing of a pandemic and I think he's going to hell in a hand basket.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago

I wish he'd do it sooner

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And the estimated 300K deaths from gutting US AID overnight.

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yet loads of Americans think he's the next coming of Christ

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 82 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I hope this man never has a moment of peace for the rest of his miserable life.

[–] makyo@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

I'm fairly comfortable that he isn't ever able to find peace. What fleeting moments of satisfaction he finds are shoveled into the bottomless pit of his narcissism and forgotten in his sad, insatiable need for more.

[–] Jolly_Platypus@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

His niece says he's miserable all the time.

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

Or after... if there is one.

[–] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 71 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Has Trump released those Epstein pedo files where is name is littered throughout yet?

#curious

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

They're scrubba dub dubbing as we speak. They say they're releasing them this friday.

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[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 58 points 1 week ago

“I just want to end it,” Trump said of the Russia-Ukraine war.

Never have I been so disappointed in the second half of a sentence

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 57 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Release the Trump/Epstein files

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[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's easier for a camel to pass through an eye of a needle than it will be for him and his ilk to get into heaven.

If I believed in heaven, I'd probably take more solace in that. But I would much prefer we enact justice while he's living, even if only as an example to others who'd wish to follow in his footsteps.

[–] stinerman@midwest.social 11 points 1 week ago

If Trump could get into heaven, then I want nothing to do with it.

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[–] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I hope his final days are spent in terror, just panicking confusing terror

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[–] Deathgl0be@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

These evil people deserve a fate worse than hell. Religion is only there to keep us common folk in line. If the god existed that Christian’s fear then these hypocrites would already be doomed. All this does is become an escape goat to put one actions and excuses into something that can’t be held accountable.

[–] AHamSandwich@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I don't believe in a Christian afterlife (and the jury's out on any at all), but I really want there to be one so these sick fucks can have all the pain and suffering they've caused rubbed into their faces.

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[–] lordkuri@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)
[–] Infinite@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago
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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He is afraid of dying because he well knows there is a special place in hell for him. Right next to Reagan and Thatcher.

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[–] Ironfist79@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Trump makes me wish hell existed.

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[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Noite_Etion@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (9 children)

He doesn't deserve such an easy out, but he will probably get it.

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[–] Octavio@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’m not even a little bit concerned about his health. I guess that could be taken one of two different ways. I meant for the mean way.

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[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If he wants to maximize his chances of seeing Heaven, he should start working towards that now. I would suggest he gives away all his wealth, resigns from any position of power, publicly apologizes for his past misdeeds, and retreats to spend the rest of his days living as a monk in a remote monastery, preferably one where all the brothers take a vow of silence.

[–] matlag@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, he's more likely to decide he was chosen by God for a mission, botch it while claiming a tremendous success, and declare he has a guaranteed spot at the right of God, if not as his successor.

All of these overrich believers will stretch their beliefs with no limit until they encompass their whole life and actions. They're "chosen".

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Next up: Unsolicited call to the Pope to determine how much he'd need to donate to make it to heaven.

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[–] kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Oh, man, I'd feel so bad for him if he died screaming and terrified of going to Hell. 🥳

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[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I hope it's cause he's dying

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[–] ChaosCharlie@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hope it’s nothing trivial.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 week ago

Most likely he's just fishing for some sympathy.

May justice be done, without fear or favor.

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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

In addition to the Trumpstein files being released, I think Taco Camacho's health records need to be released, if he's had any doctor visits with a real doctor and not just some "central casting" version of that.

Same goes for his school records, while we are at it. :)

[–] immutable@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Boy it sure would be scary if there was some part of the Bible that told you that how you treated the least amongst us, the hungry, the immigrant, the homeless, was how you treated god.

I’m sure trump has nothing to worry about, he’s always been real nice to the vulnerable among us right?

Matthew 25:40-45 New International Version

40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’

44 “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’

45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’

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[–] Meron35@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Trump ~~79,~~ Sparks ~~Health~~ Concerns ~~With 'Heaven' Declaration~~

FTFY

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Of course Trump wouldn't know that the lowest spot on the totem pole was the most honored.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's no way we're gonna be so lucky. Plus, JD in the WH? Yikes.

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[–] pinheadednightmare@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean, if you’re feeling like doing good things to try to buy your way to heaven, I know there is a shit ton of student loans that could be forgiven… just sayin

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[–] MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago

Only health concern I have for him is that he's still alive.

[–] Yaztromo@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Are we sure those are “concerns” and not “hopes”?

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 11 points 1 week ago

Maybe if you want to go to heaven do something that has even the slightest positive impact on the world instead of constantly doubling down on making everything shittier....

Or if you really wanted to seal the deal you could turn yourself and all your cronies over to the justice system for your innumerable crimes and be held accountable.

Jk there's no such thing as heaven.

[–] Soapbox@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I don't believe for a moment that he is actually even remotely religious. I suspect he's at most an apathetic agnostic. We all know he simply panders to Christians to get their support. He sees them as suckers who he can grift, just like their preachers do.

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