The Quote & Quiz For 1/24/26

This week’s quote comes to us from none other than Donald J. Trump, who said near the end of a nearly two hour rant before the White House press corps summing up his first year back in office:

“I think God is very proud of the job I’ve done.”

1. Reached for a reaction in heaven, God said:

A) “Is he freaking nuts? I want nothing to do with that SOB.”

B) “Hey, he’s not MY creation. For that, look elsewhere,” he said while pointing down.

C) “Well, yeah, I suppose he’s got a point. I’m really getting pretty sick and tired of the world and to the extent he’s just going to blow the whole damn thing up and get it off my hands, yeah, I guess I’m fine with that. Sort of a ‘it’s so bad, it’s good’ kind of thing.”

D) “One word: blasphemy. Also libel or maybe more like slander. In any event, he’ll see my lawyers, if not on earth then so it will be in eternity.”

2. Which of these Trump personal behaviors is consistent with Christian teaching?

A) Cheating on his wives.

B) Lying about something virtually every hour of every day.

C) Stealing from his business partners and scamming his own devout supporters.

D) None of the above.

3. Which of these Trump policies is consistent with Christian teaching?

A) Separating parents from children at the border.

B) Sending masked and heavily armed thugs to drag innocent people from their homes.

C) Threatening smaller nations with economic stress, if not outright military invasion, if they don’t come under his thumb.

D) None of the above.

4. What was especially odd about Trump’s claim?

A) Well, nothing. He’s Trump.

B) He’s never demonstrated any genuine religious belief.

C) It was presumptuous of him to pretend to know what God thought of him.

D) He made a distinction between God and himself.

5. And a bonus question: What can we say about this picture of French President Emanuel Macron at Davos this week?

A) It’s a Joe Biden homage.

B) Those TV lights are powerful.

C) He doesn’t want people to see how totally distraught he is about the whole Greenland thing.

D) His wife slugged him. But they’re French. It’s okay.

Answers

1. All are correct. He might have said any of them.
2. D.
3. D.
4. D.
5. We’re going to go with D on this one.