CARLTON FLETCHER: Trump’s latest proves his delusional messianic intentions

I’ve been wallowing in my own confused And insecure delusions.

— Tool

If you have: a) Made a contribution to any of Donald Trump’s stay-out-of-jail causes; b) bought a pair of his $400 shoes, or c) continued to contend this deranged person is a viable choice to be president of this country, congratulations. You are living proof of that old P.T. Barnum axiom: “There’s a sucker born every minute.”

I continue to be baffled by people who follow this con man as irrefutable evidence piles up showing Trump is not only guilty of treasonous actions against the United States, he’s dead-set on reclaiming the presidency so that he can “get back” at people who have refused to vow fealty.

The spineless Representatives and Senators who continue to hang on Trump’s every word and vow devotion no matter how many laws he breaks are not just offering up examples of bad politics. They’re showing a willingness to allow this one buffoon to tear apart the fabric of this country and reform it so that it fits his grotesque image.

And I still am having trouble coming up with an explanation for how people who call themselves Christians can even lower themselves to a point that they’d proclaim that Trump somehow fits into their God’s plan. How, for instance, do they justify this recent blasphemy:

“God looked down on his planned Paradise and said, I need a caretaker. So God gave us Trump.”

Surely most of you have heard this garbage being spewed at Trump rallies. If you have and you still proclaim Trump is the right person to be America’s president and that you base your choice on your strong faith, you might want to get a checkup on that faith thing.

I believe it was Moses who came down from the mountain with the tablets containing the Ten Commandments, one of which said, “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” If you can say without gagging that Trump has been anointed by God — indeed, created as “caretaker” of God’s kingdom on Earth — you might want to check your eternal destination.

There’s never been a question that Trump, with an oversized ego he could hardly hold in his tiny hands, sees himself as a messiah figure. But it was the American media, and a gullible American populace hungry for a politician to step to the fore and lead the country out of the doldrums it had become entangled in, that turned this hack, B-list Reality TV personality who’d used bankruptcy to hang onto a portion of the money his daddy gave him into a would-be god endowed with the powers to remake this country in his vile image.

And now, as he trumpets his claims that he is indeed a gift from God to the American people, his hero-worshipping minions lap it up, never doubting for a second that Trump is indeed a godsend. All those who oppose him — among them the evil people who brought the 91 charges against him … a number that easily could be 91,000 were we actually keeping score — can be counted among the unbelievers who are destined to fall at his feet.

Trump didn’t make his political bones by sucking up to the groups that profess to support him. He’s not afraid to take on any would-be opponent — or supporter if they grow wishy-washy — with smear campaigns that are based primarily on lies that jumped into his dyed orange-draped head and immediately came, filterless, out of his nasty mouth.

Throughout history, there have been evil men and women who, despite the deeds that earned them their places among the reviled, displayed admirable qualities that lessened the severity with which they’re seen. Not Trump. He has shown not the slightest bit of decency as he’s mocked opponents, reviled American heroes and spewed epithets that would embarrass longshoremen.

Now, he’s selling the lie to his ardent followers that he’s their gift from God, maybe not on the level of Jesus, but somewhere close. Trump’s latest blasphemous outrage underscores a simple fact: He’s not of God … he’s a spawn of Satan.