Vinson Cunningham on President Donald Trump’s Inauguration Day, in which the forty-seventh President cast himself as an especially favored vessel of the Almighty.
Back in 2020—a lifetime ago politically, but just yesterday when you think about it—the air outside that church was thick with tear gas. Troops deployed by Donald Trump ’s orders beat back a crowd gathered in the square to protest police brutality. Trump needed the space to stand in front of the church’s marquee and hold up a Bible: a photo-op dense with symbols over which Trump—a producer of spectacle, yes, but seldom of deep meaning—had no interest in exerting control. He just wanted a picture.
, whose holiday—yet another irony, probably sadder than the others but no less natural an outgrowth of this nation’s continually multiplying paradoxes—was made, this year, to share space with the unstinting agitator of the Central Park Five.
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