On Thursday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 274 points–its second-worst day of the year, and its biggest one-day drop in over three months. By most accounts, the massive plunge was tied to two factors. Investors were concerned that Donald Trump’s bizarre and idiotic comments about the Charlottesville, Virginia carnage would make Congress and the business community less willing to work with him. Additionally, the markets were on edge when terrorists struck in Barcelona while trading was still underway in the United States.
But according to one of Donald Trump’s loudest religious right cheerleaders, there was another factor. Apparently God tanked the markets to promise the nation’s business leaders for calling Trump out over his response to Charlottesville.
As has been amply demonstrated, Lance Wallnau is in a class by himself among religious right leaders who have bowed down to Trump. To hear him talk, the media is using witchcraft on the American people to turn them against Trump. He also thinks that those who are part of the resistance to Trump are actually resisting God himself. For that reason, he believes that the efforts to drive Trump out of office are nothing short of sabotage, and has openly called for God to strike Trump’s opponents down. He has also gone into all-out war against the “curses” supposedly attacking Trump and his family.
If you thought that Trump’s outrageous claim that “both sides” were responsible for Charlottesville would knock the scales off Wallnau’s eyes, Wallnau put that notion to rest just after the final bell on Thursday, via a message to his Periscope followers. People for the American Way’s Right Wing Watch got a clip.
Wallnau was just coming back from recording a broadcast on Facebook in which he tore apart the CEOs who resigned from the White House business advisory councils due to Trump’s Charlottesville response. He condemned the CEOs as “patriots in name only” and “peanuts” who caved to pressure from the media.
To Wallnau’s mind, those CEOs had made a big mistake in refusing to serve God’s president any longer.
“When God sends a president who comes, and Wall Street is having a rally–a million jobs are there–and the Bolshevik liberal press, activating their base, are trying to tear down that president, the stupidest thing economic leaders at the top of the business mountain can do is to insult 60 million voters who voted for Trump. America has its elections. 60 million here, 60 million there. We all come together. But they insulted the president and his base.”
To hear Wallnau talk, the only one whose vote really matters weighed in quickly by sending the stock market plunging.
“That’s not a coincidence. That’s not a coincidence. It’s a prophetic response to the uprising and insult that came from these CEOs.”
Wallnau claimed that the attacks on Trump are merely “kabuki theater” on the left’s part. While Obama was allowed to get the facts before commenting, Wallnau claimed that Trump wasn’t allowed that luxury.
Never mind that when Trump finally did comment, he saw fit to point the finger at both sides when one of those sides was made up almost entirely of Nazis and white supremacists. And even worse, one those sides murdered an innocent woman, trashed her online, and planned to crash her funeral. You mean to tell me that if those CEOs–some of whom are fathers themselves–got outraged over that, they are “patriots in name only?”
Apparently so, in Wallnau’s eyes. And to hear him talk, God saw to it they paid the price in full, and immediately.
“When this got out, and when I saw the stock market went down, I said, ‘Of course!’ I should have said, ‘When those CEOs mocked Trump and made this a political issue, the judgment would come where their pocketbooks are. How fast does God sometimes settle accounts?”
So basic decency is a “political issue” now? Oh, that’s right–for Wallnau and others on the far right, basic decency makes you a librul squish. Then again, we already knew that Wallnau’s moral compass was severely warped. After all, this is a guy who thinks that the Fox News sexual harassment scandal is a demonic trick.
If possible, the Facebook video is even loonier. He claims the drive to take down Confederate monuments is just an attempt to generate “media moments” for the antifa. He then blamed the Democrats for putting up those monuments and starting the Ku Klux Klan–forgetting that years later, pro-segregation Democrats left the party en masse when the national party got with the program on civil rights. Later, he put a costume hook on his arm and put the CEOs who resigned from the advisory councils in a “boo box,” much like Captain Hook locked those who bet against him in a locked trunk with scorpions.
Wallnau had already disqualified himself from serving as a pastor or evangelist with his disgraceful suggestion that the accusers in the Fox News scandal were being played. But just like Frank Amedia, he has done so ten times over by continuing to stand with Trump. If continuing to carry water for a president who thinks there are both sides to this issue when one of those sides is made up of racist thugs isn’t evidence that a pastor is not setting a good example for his followers, nothing is.
(featured image courtesy Wallnau’s Facebook)
