'It's blasphemy': Chris Matthews reacts to Trump comparing himself to Jesus

Let's begin this hour with President Biden's Easter Sunday message. It was a solemn message that was read. Jill and I send our warmest wishes to Christians around the world celebrating Easter Sunday. Easter reminds us of the power of hope and the promise of the resurrection of Christ as us. We gather with our loved ones, remember the sacrifice of Jesus, pray for each other and appreciate the blessing of the dawn of new possibilities and as wars and conflict claim innocent lives around the world, we renew our commitment to work for peace, security and dignity for all. people from our family to yours Happy Easter and God bless you beautiful uh unfortunately now I have to compare that with the honor of the Republican front basically Donald Trump who spent another religious holiday posting on Truth social 77 times sometimes unhinged sometimes nonsensical many caps Definitely very bad on Easter, the presumptive 2024 Republican candidate went after his supposed enemies all day among his many posts, one in caps, criticizing the quote.

Evil and sick prosecutors seeking to hold him accountable for his alleged crimes. He also shared two far-right news stories. articles one titled the crucifixion of Donald Trump and the other calling him a miracle and the chosen one sent by God if you don't think this is a cult you might want to consider opening your mind a little here in another post Trump stated his The Florida House and Club They are worth up to $1.8 billion and this one highlights a poll that claims she would defeat former first lady Michelle Obama in a general election showdown. Other things he did he posted a photo of Joe Biden in a very ugly and very dangerous way that was On Friday, I think, Chris Matthews, let's talk about Trump's bad Easter messages and I'm curious, especially because you know you look at Pennsylvania and you look at these swing states and you look at the Trump supporters and you look at who they blindly support. support a man who was found responsible for sexual assault by a jury of his peers, not a corrupt justice system, as it says the same thing with how much he should pay the woman a judge says he basically raped, a jury decided how much should pay his fellow people who actually had to look at him and what he did and what he said a man, I don't know, I mean we could choose at random from a thousand things that took hundreds of thousands of documents, many of them classified evidence proving that he framed his own people his own employees trying to hide them a man who told people to go to the capital on January 6th would be crazy so go there, go there, I will see you there and there are people serving time for him who plans to be free if he wins the presidency, plans to free them and yet goes to a police officer's funeral.

He politicizes it over the weekend, but you know, the cops died on January 6th. I have so many answers, this man, well, but this man's daily plan. Chris should hurt people is to tear them down for

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at Easter, think about the message Jo divide and send the message, maybe if you went to church during Easter you may have heard a similar one about that Easter is a day. of renewal a day where you have a solemn moment to look at your relationship with God and I'm just curious about this man whose everyday life is a miserable march towards what God fearing Christians would call hell, is he okay for his actions, why what is lost? about people who love Jesus and follow Jesus' message well.

I think there are a couple of things I was thinking about when Ronald Reagan, the once beloved Republican leader and now second only to Donald Trump, was apparently shot and nearly killed in 1981 by the opposition leader who was the Speaker of the House O'Neal went to see him at George Washington Hospital and knelt next to Reagan and they prayed Psalm 23 together the Lord is my shepherd this presidential candidate Donald Trump is saying I am the shepherd I am he I am God surprises me I'm surprised he can talk like that it's

blasphemy

like Moren D said in the Times Yes New York Times yesterday that's how he talks now I just saw some numbers.

I've been away for a couple of weeks in Vietnam, uh, teaching there, but I have to tell you that a couple of things finally came to mind. One is when I was there in New Hampshire in my 10th grade. a lot of really poor people waiting in line for two hours to see Donald Trump, really poor people, white people in most cases and I said what's going on here and I don't know how these bark tabs are related or why they're related , but I really want this guy to be your president again and then I saw the Florida Atlantic University survey that came out in March and it pointed out that the only economic group in the country that likes Trump is less than 50,000 a year, not 50 100, not more than 100 only. people under 50,000 I can't put it all together, but maybe people are in trouble.

People have a grievance against society because society has been hard on them. Whites, Hispanics, blacks. All types of people under 50,000 a year are for Trump. Someone has to get it. that in their heads if that's what's going on here and someone has to start thinking about why Trump is appealing to those people who are in trouble and people like in the White House like rete and Mike Don andita Dunn, someone in that great intelligent group of anonymous people. they're going to start thinking about who they're up against Trump has been able to connect with people with basic needs who live there they're not rich they're not all going to Florida to get the tax break they're not like that crowd or that crowd is really there Outside, too, that crowd is going to benefit from these poor people.

The people who seek to obtain a tax exemption from Trump are going to obtain, they are going to benefit from that. The people at the bottom, in the lowest economic level, are simply going to be left out and it is so clear that the Democrats have to reach the people they have always supported, the people below, the people with whom through grievance they have always said that we are For those people, they have to start supporting them in some way way, obviously, and that means Biden has to start talking to them and that's not happening yet.

Trump is talking to them like someone once said about FDR. I didn't know him, but he knew me. Trump yes. Those people when I was there in New Hampshire I heard him say something that my people had discovered that I should come to this area because there are a lot of poor people and he said that's how he remembered it in 2016 when he beat Hillary, he went to Erie and he went to Wilksboro, lern county, he knew where his Hillary was stuck in Philadelphia, he knew where she was going. I think people like David Urban, who ran his campaign last time, know where to advance him.

They're going to go out and take it to the right places and I'm telling you it's fantastic. I don't know if Democrats have really thought through this campaign and what they're up against. This guy calls himself God, God, right? There's nothing strange about me, yeah, and if he can get away with it, then it's truly a cult and people are going to be taught, I mean, on second thought with them, someone has to start talking to people and tell them that this guy is not real like a secular leader he is not Jesus Christ the way he seems to do it the way he seems to do it is saying you are under siege and I am under siege now I am under siege because the state is coming after me and you can be under siege siege for many other reasons, but this concept of being a victim seems to go a long way and in those evangelical communities or you know, during the Easter weekend, you are right, he presents himself as a messianic religious. figure, but where are the non-Trump moderate Christians standing up and saying, wait a second, this is not a religion where we worship anyone, we worship God, we don't worship a country, we don't even worship States United, that is not the basis of the We do not know the Christian religion, we are sure that we do not worship an individual, so where are those Christian leaders who think that what is happening in this slightly cult-like world that Trump has built around him with followers flocking to churches for him every I look at the Nikki Haley vote where Nikki Hy generally did well in more moderate areas so there is a geographic reality to this if you live in a moderate Republican type neighborhood that maybe like lower taxes or something, but they're not crazy, you'll get votes Hy, uh, I think that's true, so it has a lot to do with geography, there are 50 counties in Pennsylvania, you mentioned M, who are all low-income people, my brother.

He ran for state office and I have to tell you that when you go through your R, there's only the doctor among ten or a couple of other people who have money, they just don't have money and it's just normal America, they're not in the big cities, no. They're in Silicon Valley, they're normal people who go to church on Sundays and Trump is reaching out to them in this sectarian way and I think he needs to get out. Donald Trump has to go out and meet those people, he has to find them back, they are making puddles out there.

I have realized that if you live in the suburbs you are probably going to vote for Biden because you don't like abortion because it is harsh, he wants to punish women. We know he's already said it, but I think in the country the number will increase to between 68% and 70%, and it will increase to about 75%. He is in dangerous territory to win. States like Pennsylvania. Trump and Biden have to figure this out. I don't know if people were smart enough to do it, but I think they have to get smarter. This is really difficult, and paying for television advertising is not going to be enough.

You can't buy this. In the election, people have a direct personal relationship with the candidates for President Trump and Biden and it's very personal and one guy is appealing to them on that primitive basis of I'm your God, worship me and the other guy is trying to argue, you know, Obamacare. and things like that and infrastructure and it's more difficult, but politics should be a little difficult. Hello everyone, MSNBC has a new and improved app. They will receive real alerts and analysis. Live blogging. In-depth essays. Featured videos and the best election coverage of 2024. Download the new one.

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