President Trump’s 2025 inaugural address gave a clear indication of the direction he wants to take the peoples of the States, and overall it isn’t a good one.
Yes, there were positive things in it, such as promises to end some of the transgender and DEI nonsense in the federal government, to better manage immigration, etc. But they cannot blot out the danger that is also present within it, that danger being the establishment of a deeper and more pervasive idolatry in the States. And the idol is us, the people themselves.
Here is Trump’s vision, in his own words:
Above all, my message to Americans today is that it is time for us to once again act with courage, vigor and the vitality of history’s greatest civilization. So as we liberate our nation, we will lead it to new heights of victory and success. We will not be deterred. . . . The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation, one that increases our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises our expectations and carries our flag into new and beautiful horizons. And we will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars.
He goes on:
And it’s the lifeblood of a great nation. And, right now, our nation is more ambitious than any other. There’s no nation like our nation. Americans are explorers, builders, innovators, entrepreneurs and pioneers. The spirit of the frontier is written into our hearts. The call of the next great adventure resounds from within our souls. Our American ancestors turned a small group of colonies on the edge of a vast continent into a mighty republic of the most extraordinary citizens on Earth. No one comes close. Americans pushed thousands of miles through a rugged land of untamed wilderness. They crossed deserts, scaled mountains, braved untold dangers, won the Wild West, ended slavery, rescued millions from tyranny, lifted millions from poverty, harnessed electricity, split the atom, launched mankind into the heavens and put the universe of human knowledge into the palm of the human hand. If we work together, there is nothing we cannot do and no dream we cannot achieve.
The ‘American people’ are presented as the Gnostic demiurge that will bring perfection to the world:
Many people thought it was impossible for me to stage such a historic political comeback. But as you see today, here I am. The American people have spoken. I stand before you now as proof that you should never believe that something is impossible to do. In America, the impossible is what we do best. From New York to Los Angeles, from Philadelphia to Phoenix, from Chicago to Miami, from Houston to right here in Washington, D.C., our country was forged and built by the generations of patriots who gave everything they had for our rights and for our freedom. They were farmers and soldiers, cowboys and factory workers, steel workers and coal miners, police officers and pioneers who pushed onward, marched forward and let no obstacle defeat their spirit or their pride. Together they laid down the railroads, raised up the skyscrapers, built great highways, won two world wars, defeated fascism and communism, and triumphed over every single challenge that they faced.
. . . In recent years, our nation has suffered greatly. But we are going to bring it back and make it great again. Greater than ever before. We will be a nation like no other. Full of compassion, courage and exceptionalism. Our power will stop all wars and bring a new spirit of unity to a world that has been angry, violent, and totally unpredictable.
. . . From this day on, the United States of America will be a free, sovereign and independent nation. We will stand bravely. We will live proudly. We will dream boldly, and nothing will stand in our way. Because we are Americans. The future is ours. And our golden age has just begun.
If folks will recall their Gnostic lore, the demiurge makes a mess out of the task of fashioning the material world; the same has been (and will ever be) true of Americanism.
There are the obligatory shallow references to ‘God’ at a few points in the address. In the closing, it appears in the usual blasphemous way so often used by political leaders of the States, being a command rather than a prayer: ‘God bless America,’ which is reminiscent of how the Talmudic Jews approach God (He obeys the rabbis, not the other way around; see Michael Hoffman, Judaism’s Strange Gods, for more on that).
That this ‘God’ is not the Holy Trinity of the Orthodox Church may be discerned rather easily from President Trump appointing to his cabinet several LGBT officials:
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The rest is at https://orthodoxreflections.com/donald-trumps-mission-to-establish-idolatry-in-the-u-s/.
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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema to the Union!
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