Pence Tells Trump a Bible Story
One of the themes of the Trump era is the overwhelming support that he enjoys from American evangelical Christians, among whom we usually include Mike Pence. Encouragingly, there is also a fun strain of satire that looks at this very odd coupling between an amoral man and a community for whom morality is a core value. One of my favorite genres of this satire is the joke about Trump and the Bible
I will probably write more of these. It’s a great opportunity to use Trump as a way to interpret the Bible in ways that the text supports but that are not the conventional American Christian interpretation.
My goal in the larger story of this comic strip is not to make Trump an adorable, silly cartoon that we can all laugh off, because I don’t want to let him off the hook for the terrible impact he has had on the welfare of vulnerable populations, the environment and climate, race relations, science, and so on. But, to have an interesting villain, sometimes he is going to more like us than we are comfortable with, so there will always be a little of me in him. And the secular history and interpretation of the Bible is an interest of mine, so sometimes that will be channeled through the very unlikely mouthpiece of comic Trump!