CNN Crew Cracks Up Mocking New Trump Bible Sale — But Then It Gets Dead Serious

CNN host Kasie Hunt and her morning show crew had a field day with former President Donald Trump’s new moneymaking scheme to sell bibles bundled with country music and founding documents — until things took a serious turn.

After comparing himself to Jesus Christ earlier this week, Trump stunned the heavens and the Earth — and at least two of the Corinthians — with a video announcing the sale of a Trump-endorsed Bible bundled with founding documents and a lyrics sheet for the MAGA anthem he uses to introduce his rallies, Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the U.S.A.”

On Wednesday morning’s edition of CNN This Morning, Hunt kicked off a solid 5 minutes of mockery with a deadly serious warning about impending theocracy mixed in:

KASIE HUNT: All right. Now there’s this, which is really the one that everyone at this table is talking about this morning. Former president turned Bible salesman.

DONALD TRUMP: All Americans need a Bible in their home and I have many. It’s my favorite book. I’m proud to endorse and encourage you to get this Bible. We must make America pray again.

KASIE HUNT: Make America pray again. After launching sneaker and Cologne lines last month, the former president. Okay, so he’s selling. This is– get this– the God Bless the USA Bible, that’s in partnership with country singer Lee Greenwood.

He takes the stage to Greenwood’s music. It’s only $59.99. And just for that, you get a copy of the Constitution, a copy of the Bill of Rights, a copy of the Pledge of Allegiance and the Declaration of Independence, as well as the Bible. I guess just a reminder, this is the man who once said this:

DONALD TRUMP: Two Corinthians 3:17. That’s the whole ballgame. Where the spirit of the Lord. Right? Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

KASIE HUNT: Jonah, can you please remind me, what is two Corinthians?

JONAH GOLDBERG: Actually, my favorite example of this, when he was asked what his favorite Bible verse was, he said, well, first of all, there’s so many I couldn’t pick just one, so many. And then he settled on an eye for an eye. Which I just thought was so great.

Look, I mean, in fairness, whether you– I think a lot of people who really passionately dislike Trump are praying again too, given the state of things, but, no, this is this is this is the life we’ve–. Someone made a bad wish with a monkey paw a while ago. And this is the life we have now.

DAVID FRUM: It is, it is remarkable glimpse of the path we could have been on that if if, the Electoral College had bounced slightly differently in 2016, Donald Trump would have been a TV pitchman for the past decade, and he would be selling reverse reversible mortgages, dietary supplements. It does. It is, a reminder, however, of how fraudulent all the claims about his wealth are. These are not the actions of very wealthy people. Very wealthy people are living on the interest upon the interests of their municipal bonds. They do not need to go on TV and sell Bibles to, credulous supporters. By the way, the Bible, of course, is available in almost every translation you could want for free online. You can read it every day for nothing.

KASIE HUNT: Ashley, do you want to weigh in here?

ASHLEY ALLISON: Not particularly, but I well, I guess, you know, to take a slightly more serious tone on this is–.

This is a preview, again, of how Trump sees the way he wants to rule the world, and through an authoritative, theology, which is one way, which is, as– I’m a Christian, but, you know, the Bible is the route in which we are going to govern this country, even though this country was founded on the separation of church and state.

And so it’s funny and yet it’s not because it is a tell that if he wins in November and becomes president, he could not just say, like, I’m selling Bibles, but I’m mandating that in our schools, everyone has a Bible. And these institutions, everyone has a Bible, and that’s not what America is about.

There are people from all different faiths. And that’s the beauty of this patchwork cloth that we have that Donald Trump doesn’t really seem to appreciate in this, ever.

KASIE HUNT: Well, I mean, Jonah, pulling together, to Ashley’s excellent point, the, founding documents of the country into the bi– I mean, they’re– the separation of church and state was a founding ideal, for a country that was breaking away from Britain. And those documents that the founders wrote reflected that. To kind of put them together and then hawk it does, I mean–

JONAH GOLDBERG: But, you know, it’s but it’s a great value in a bundle. (laughter) And, you know, and and they’re all public domain now so they can get them really cheap for printing purposes.

But, you know, look, I mean, look, I don’t think at all truly that Donald Trump wants to impose a theocracy. I think there are a bunch of people in his orbit who do, right? There are people who I mean, Donald Trump, you know, we talked about going to communion. And when they give me my little cracker, I mean, like, this is a guy who’s not religiously literate in the slightest.

But the people who are most invested in him, surrounding him want to fill the federal bureaucracy. They actually take this theocracy stuff very seriously. And I do think that this mixing, it really is an interesting mix of God and Mammon, isn’t it? That we’re seeing and I think to your point, I think that’s that’s where the real threat is if you’re concerned about that kind of thing.

Watch above via CNN This Morning.