Evidence about Donald Trump being infected with hallucinations and delusions

Echo letter to the editor published in the Pen Bay Pilot Talk section, a Rockland and Camden Maine Midcost newspaper.

Donald Trump's utter disconnect from reality

Mon, 03/03/2025 - 7:25pm
Jim Matlack

In the wake of Donald Trump's repeated delusional assertions that the U.S. will "take over Gaza" after some two million Palestinians are summarily evicted (also known as genocide!) so that he can carry out his biggest real estate and renovation deal a remarkable AI video appeared on Trump's Truth Social site in support of this cruel genocidal fantasy.

It provides a vivid illustration of Trump's utter disconnect from reality (also known as "crazy) and the scale of his self-imagined projection into grandiose worldly success.

In place of near-total destruction in Gaza the Trump video portrays a massive makeover into a successful tourist mecca with high-rise buildings, a large Trump Gaza Casino, and a photo-shop image of Trump and Netanyahu sun-bathing on the beach together.

Gone are the Palestinians! But they never will or should relinquish their claims to their lands in Gaza, despite brutal conditions imposed by Israeli attacks and cut-offs of humanitarian supplies. Trump will never transform this killing field into a vacation playground.

The most extreme illustration of Trump's self-indulgence and ego enhancement is embodied in an image featured in the AI video--a giant statue of businessman Trump flanked by palm trees and tall buildings (also known as hallucinations!). Against a glowing sky an immense replica of a resolute Trump stands at least 50 feet high and is covered in gold (or solid gold?). There could be no better example of his self-worship to offset his actual psychological insecurity.

In the Biblical story of Exodus, the Children of Israel make their way out of Egypt and into the area of present-day Gaza, where they betray their spiritual heritage by worshiping a golden calf. 

"thou shall not have false gods before me" is found in Exodus 20:3, and is often referred to as the first commandment

The MAGA followers of today should learn from their Scriptural example. (MAGA followers who are Bible Thumpers seem to skip over the place where God directs the Isrealites not to worship strange gods).

Jim Matlack lives in Camden, Maine

Rick Perry must take a Bible study refresher course: Exodus 20:3-5

Echo opinion letter published in The Dallas Morning News

"When confronted with his myriad sins from serial adultery to his  total disdain of the truth, Trump demonizes his accusers and has never repented of anything," Cecil Larry Pool.

Obviously Rick Perry must take a Bible Study refresher course:

Exodus 20:3-5 King James Version (KJV)
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God

Rick Perry is putting Trump up as a graven image. His statement is blasphemy.

Re: “God chose president, Perry says,” Tuesday news story.

As a professor of history and a Baptist pastor, I do not know whether to laugh or cry at the comments of Rick Perry. As a historian, I know that our nation was founded on the repudiation of the divine right of monarchs, declaring that governments are “instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

I understand the difference between the active and permissive will of God. The view that God is simply a grand puppeteer and that men have no choice make him the architect not only of good but the horrible as well. It is this flawed theology that turns so many against the Gospel message.

To equate Donald Trump with the biblical King David is sad. When confronted with his sins, David repented as he expressed in Psalm 51. When confronted with his myriad sins from serial adultery to his total disdain of the truth, Trump demonizes his accusers and has never repented of anything.

Perry and the other evangelicals who totally support Trump defy our historical heritage and distort the Bible. 

As a religious minister, I choose to stand with Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence and the biblical prophet Nathan.

Cecil Larry Pool, Midlothian Texas

National Rifle Association and the Ten Commandments

Recently, I was enjoying an outing on the Maine coast with a wonderful Christian couple. As nice as they are, they support gun owners rights and having the access to all the ammunition a person needs to keep weapons. It's impossible to argue with these people because, afterall, they have the cover of the Constituton's Second Amendment, the right to own guns.  

Nevertheless, Christian beliefs are in sharp contrast with the Ted Commandments.  "Thou Shall Not Kill" because guns kill.

For some strange reason, the Ted Commandments do not seem to be relevant when the Constitution gives gun ownership cover.

Yet, The Ten Commandments are so important that they are reported twice in the Bible. As far as I know, the US Constitution only mentions the Second Amendment once. The Ten Commandments are listed twice in the Hebrew Bible, first at Exodus 20:1–17, and then at Deuteronomy 5:4–21.

There's definitely a big and obvious flaw in the bizarre thinking about guns and the intrepretation of The Ten Commandments. 

Moreover, "One nation under God" said in the Pledge of Allegience, means The Ten Commandments are important and, therefore, must preceed the words in the Constitution. 

Unfortunately, gun ownership appears to carry a different set of values for some Christians. At least, it did for the Christians I was with in Maine.

Belief in the literal interpretation of Biblical Scripture seems to stop when it comes to endorsing gun ownership and Second Amendment rights, even though guns kill people. 

"Thou Shall Not Kill", incedulously, doesn't appear to apply to Second Amendment rights among Bible believers who don't believe that guns kill.  

This flawed logic falls under the cliche of "you can't make this stuff up". Americans must vote to stop the National Rifle Association from creating it's own rules and reinterpretating the words in The Ten Commandments.  

Consequently, I must ask this question.  Do members of the National Rifle Association (NRA) believe in The Ten Commandments? Or, do they think "Thou Shall Not Kill" has special considerations?