May 13-15, 2017: President Trump Says His Election Required "Major Help from God."

 

5/13/17: Super-Christian Donald J. Trump travels to Liberty University for a speech. It’s his third time on campus, he reminds his audience, but who ever thought he’d return as president? 

Besides the Russians. 

His victory required “major help from God,” he says. “And we got it.” 

Trump thanks multi-millionaire Jerry Falwell Jr., president of Liberty, who has profited  handsomely by focusing on the message of Jesus. He thanks the students’ parents. Then to the Class of 2017, he offers this wisdom: “You’re going to go out, you’re going to do whatever you’re going to do, some are going to make a lot of money, some are going to be even happier doing other things.” 

His comments have a Dr. Seuss-like inscrutability. 

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The younger version, or even the current version of Donald J. Trump, wouldn’t make it as a Liberty student.

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You figure the younger version, or even the current version of Donald J. Trump, wouldn’t make it as a Liberty student. A look at the school’s code of conduct, called The Liberty Way, makes it clear. The code has been liberalized in recent years. R-rated movies and hugs lasting longer than three seconds are no longer taboo. (Grabbing women by the pussy still doesn’t fly.) In 2015 the university reduced dress code restrictions, but shorts are forbidden in class. Women’s skirts must reach within two inches of the knee. Pre-marital sex is grounds for dismissal. 

Even Trump’s hair couldn’t pass the test. For male students, “Hair should be cut in such a way that it will not come over the ears, collar or eyebrows at any time. Ponytails for men are unacceptable.”

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5/14/17: POTUS manages to tweet a Mother’s Day greeting without insulting mothers: “Wishing @FLOTUS Melania and all of the great mothers out there a wonderful day ahead with family and friends! Happy #MothersDay.”

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5/15/17: In an article for Politico, Shane Goldmacher explains how Trump gets his news. White House chief of staff Reince Priebus has had to issue a warning to senior staff: “Quit trying to secretly slip stuff to President Donald Trump.” 

Just days earlier, K.T. McFarland, deputy national security adviser, gave Trump a printout of two Time magazine covers. One, supposedly from the 1970s, warned of a coming ice age. The other, from 2008, was about surviving global warming. Trump got all lathered up about media hypocrisy. There was only one problem. The 1970s cover was fake, part of an internet hoax that’s circulated for years. 

Staff intervened before Trump tweeted or talked publicly again about the climate change “hoax.”

This real cover was doctored and the cover story changed
to "How to Survive the Coming Ice Age."