Is Donald J. Trump God?

 Reflecting on billboards and various other signage I saw while driving with my son from CO to RI (through KS, MO, IL, IN, OH, Penn, NY, NH, ME, MA, CT, and VT) if I was to compile a list of the top 5 signs I saw along the highway my unscientific analysis would be:

5.  Porn (with MO being the dominant state in this category)

4.  Fireworks

1,2,3 a dead heat between 

        A.  Need help, Jesus saves call 800 xxx-oooo

        B.  Anti Choice, all embryos are pure life (maybe eggs too) so women don't fuck with em

        C.  Trump

And of all the various signage I saw it was Trump who didn't just have signs but also shrines.  As my son noted as we went by two large containers parked in the middle of a field of corn and windmills (yes a GOPer who loves his federal government subsidizes), "wow dad that just isn't two containers that they installed on man made berm, but they also installed 30 foot polls and then ran electricity to a lighting system to light the shrine up all night long."

To be clear most of the Trump signage we saw wasn't old election stuff---not Trump- Pence 2020 or even Trump 2024 although there was some of that.  This was just Trump.  Not for a particular election.  Not with a running mate.  This was just pure Trump adulation.

Which got me wondering (once again) WHY?  What is it that some Americans find so appealing about a twice divorced, adultering, trustafarian, who has declared bankruptcy 3 times, and trusts Putin more than his own intelligence services and can't abide by democracy and seemingly couldn't find the truth if he was locked in a closet with it- although he would surely grope it.

I mean would you want Trump as a business partner?  Would you trust him to house-dog sit?  Yet there is a cult like following of this horribly flawed individual.  His followers flock to his sermons to hear him preach the gospel of windmills causing cancer, bleach curing COVID, masks signaling weakness, and how his followers are helping America win against all that is evil and trying to destroy it.

I honestly can't claim any insight as to Why, nor even What to do about Trump.  I will say that somehow he has gone from failed real estate exec and burned out TV host to having a religious like following.  He doesn't look like he is going away any time soon, and maybe more worryingly it doesn't seem like his followers passion is losing any of its intensity.  

So yea I guess if the words of Jesus aren't helping you find peace, and controlling women's bodies ain't getting you to your happy place, and you need a place to vent your anger Trump is waiting for you with open hands as long as you remember to show up with an open wallet.