Interlinking History
The Trump Monarch — Reprehensible King or Fated Caesar?
Treacherous American Presidential Politics
2 Nov 2020:
As the Presidential Election on 3 November 2020 treads upon us in the U.S., it is easy to be swept up in the polls, hyped up about the Electoral College, fear violence and more clashes between opposing politically-charged citizens, and all the while during real concerns about our national fate in the COVID-19 pandemic and the unabated protests of social injustice. Looking back to our poignant summer, it’s hard not to also recount in review, the irreligious event that set off a storm of critics and questions about President Trump’s hidden intentions about his place in our history and take another perspective on his likeness to baneful historical figures, no matter who wins the right to sit in the White House in 2021.
7 June 2020:
Instinctually, opposing interpretations erupted from President Trump’s photo-op last Monday evening (June 1) in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., as the President held awkwardly, and at first hesitantly in rumination of which position to pose, a Revised Standard Version Holy Bible hoisted above his right shoulder like a dictatorial savior. Indeed, the forcible removal of…