Twice-Divorced, Adulterer Trump Accuses Buttigieg Of ‘Pretending’ To Be A Christian

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President Donald Trump on Friday told an evangelical Christian crowd in Florida Friday night that Democratic 2020 candidate Pete Buttigieg is using his Christian faith as a prop and is only pretending to be a Christian.

Trump told members of his evangelical base at the King Jesus International Ministry in Miami that God is “on our side” against “radical left” Democrats.

He accused several prominent Democratic figures including the former mayor and New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of trying to remove God from America and replace religion with socialism, although he offered no examples of how this is happening.

Trump began by mocking Buttigieg’s last name and questioned whether his Christian faith is genuine.

“The extreme left is trying to replace religion with government and replace God with socialism,” Trump claimed Friday, prompting boos from the audience.

“And I see Alfred E. Neuman comes out and he’s trying to pretend he’s very religious. Alfred E. Neuman you know who that is, right?” Trump said, comparing Buttigieg to the fictitious Mad magazine cover character. “Buttigieg—you go ‘boot’ and then ‘edge, edge,’ because nobody can pronounce his name so they call him ‘Mayor Pete.’”

“Now Mayor Pete I hope he does great. Boot-edge-edge. Now all of a sudden he’s become extremely religious, this happened about two weeks ago,” Trump continued.

Buttigieg fired back on Twitter late Friday night: “God does not belong to a political party.”

“I’m not sure why the president’s taken an interest in my faith journey, but certainly I would be happy to discuss it with him,” Buttigieg added at a town hall meeting in Nashua.

“I just don’t know where that’s coming from, you know. Certainly it has been a complex journey for me, as it is for a lot of people, but I’m pretty sure I’ve been a believer longer than he’s been a Republican.”

Buttigieg, an Episcopalian and former Catholic, has spoken regularly at campaign events about his Christian faith, and sometimes attends services while on the trail.

“Time to establish once and for all that God does not belong to a political party,” he told a crowd in Tipton, Iowa in August.

“These angry radicals want to impose absolute conformity by censuring speech, tearing down crosses and symbols of faith and banning religious believers from public life,” Trump told the crowd.

“Our opponents want to shut out God from the public square so they can impose their extreme, anti-religious and socialist agenda on America,” Trump announced Friday night. “We are going to defeat the radical Washington Democrats.”

Trump even appeared to question the religiosity of the people in the church Friday night.

Trump joked that because there were so many people waiting outside to get in, “If you’re truly religious you should give up your seat right now.”

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