Franklin Graham sat down with CNN’s Carol Costello to discuss President-elect Donald Trump’s foreign policy challenges with Russia as well as the divisiveness that Trump exploited in order to win the election.
In a bizarre segment, the Trump-apologist and professional evangelical Christian, said that Trump was just the man to go about “getting things done.” One of those things being making friends with international thugs such as Russian president Vladimir Putin. He told Costello that:
“That’s the problem with the politicians in Washington. They sit down there and they do nothing. Now we’ve got a man who’s coming into the White House who wants to get things done. And I hope and I pray — we all as Americans, we need to pray for the president-elect and vice president-elect.”
When the topic turned to the divisions that Trump exploited, Graham went in to full yokel mode. He told Costello:
“Start working to make America great again, that’s what Trump wants to do. We need jobs, we need to get employment up, we need to have hope for the future. And the only way you’re going to have hope for the future is if a kid goes to college and comes out and knows, ‘I can get a job and I can get a good paying job and maybe I can work my way up the ladder.'”
But not just any jobs. The cancer-causing, brain-numbing, back-breaking jobs of our forefathers.
Graham said:
“This is terrible. I live in North Carolina where so much of our manufacturing base has gone to other countries. And people are out of jobs, are out of work. And they say, ‘But we’ll retrain you, we’ll let you be a computer programmer.’ They don’t want to be a computer programmer!”
Because who would want to use their brains for a great salary when they can use their hands for a pitiful hourly wage?
Graham continued to lament the good old days by saying:
“They want to do the same job as their fathers and their grandfathers. There was pride in the manufacturing and the building. And we’ve taken all that away and it’s sad.”
Perhaps Franklin Graham will put his money where his mouth is and shut down his website and delete his social media accounts. All assets that are all made possible by…computer programmers.
Watch the interview here:
Featured image via YouTube screengrab.
