Some of the people
Trump is picking to form his cabinet seem to believe that the US constitution should be reformed to base it
firmly on biblical law. Presumably, they mean Old Testament law rather than the
snowflake nonsense about loving one’s neighbours (especially if they happen to
be Canadian or Mexican) or turning the other cheek (instead of seeking
revenge). It’s a proposal
which could prove problematic for Trump himself – I’m not sure that there is a
single one of the ten commandments that he hasn’t broken, or actively
considered breaking. He’s even mused about having a graven image of himself carved into Mount
Rushmore.
He does, however,
have a potential get-out mechanism, because he who controls the content of the
bible also controls the detail of biblical law. One of his more recent ventures
has been selling Trump-branded
bibles, which,
unsurprisingly, contain additional content over and above that found in other
bibles. (Autographed copies are available as well.) If it’s possible to add additional content, it
is surely also possible to amend the existing content for the next print run.
And it would only take a small change. If all those pesky prohibitions (‘thou
shalt not’) were simply prefaced by a few additional words, along the lines of
‘Unless thou hast first rigged the Supreme Court to give thyself immunity’. Fixed,
without needing to go to the lengths of writing a new gospel according to St Donald.
He wouldn’t be the first leader in history to ‘discover’ that sacred religious
texts give him favours not available to others.
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