After adding his unique, frenetic signature to a 12-year-old boy’s Good Book, the crowd of onlookers erupted in applause.
President Trump signs a Bible as he greets people at Providence Baptist Church in Smiths Station, Ala., on March 8, as he tours areas where tornadoes killed 23 people in Lee County.
— Josh Dawsey March 8, 2019 After adding his unique, frenetic signature to a 12-year-old boy’s Good Book, the crowd of onlookers erupted in applause, a pool report noted. At the church, Trump addressed dozens of residents and victim’s families, and recounted some of the damage he saw there, days after one of the worst tornado outbreaks in recent years killed 23 people.In keeping with his vow to the state, Trump confirmed that officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency are indeed doing an “A-plus job"
“In Trump’s defense, he wrote as much of the Bible as ‘Art of The Deal,’ ” one commenter tweeted, referring to the first of more than a dozen books for which Trump has hired a ghostwriter.— Judd Legum March 8, 2019 Others took a darker, more critical view, contrasting the Bible’s teachings of Christ-like virtue with Trump administration policies they deemed inhumane.
— Peter Daou March 8, 2019 John Fea, a historian at Messiah College, a Christian school in Pennsylvania, said he has never heard of any president signing Bibles before. The American Bible Society, he said, produced a Bible commemorating President Dwight D. Eisenhower, but it came out after his death. There’s a tradition in many families that generations would sign a Bible.“The fact that people are bringing Bibles to him says a lot about them,” Fea said.
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