Why is Trump selling bibles? How much do they cost and where can you buy them?
Former President Donald Trump is flogging a bible endorsed by him and Lee Greenwood. His latest commercial venture as he runs for the White House again.
Just in time for Holy Week, Donald Trump announced his latest commercial venture in conjunction with Lee Greenwood, the ‘God Bless the USA Bible’, inspired by the country singer’s patriotic ballad. “Happy Holy Week! Let’s Make America Pray Again. As we lead into Good Friday and Easter, I encourage you to get a copy of the God Bless the USA Bible,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.
The now presumptive nominee for the Republican party has been using his campaign and former status as president to flog a handful of products lately. These include a line of shoes and fragrances as well as helping to drive the valuation of his social media platform Truth Social.
How much do the Trump bibles cost and where can you buy them?
The ‘God Bless the USA Bible’ is available exclusively from a webpage set up to sell them. They cost $59.99 plus shipping and handling (to be determined during checkout). “Due to high order volume” it may take some time to receive an order with the webpage asking customers to “allow up to 4-6 weeks for delivery.”
Besides the King James Version bible which includes a “handwritten chorus to ‘God Bless The USA’ by Lee Greenwood” shoppers can also purchase a “Make America Pray Again” baseball cap currently marked down to $25.
Why is Trump selling bibles?
“I’m proud to be partnering with my very good friend Lee Greenwood, who doesn’t love his song, ‘God Bless the USA’, in connection with promoting the ‘God Bless the USA Bible’, Trump says in a video on the company’s webpage. According to the website for the product, it “is not owned, managed or controlled by Donald J. Trump, The Trump Organization, CIC Ventures LLC or any of their respective principals or affiliates.”
Instead, the former president is providing “his name, likeness and image under paid license from CIC Ventures LLC, which license may be terminated or revoked according to its terms.” The company says with regards to the inquiry of whether any money from the sale of the bibles going to his campaign for president that it won’t and that it is “not political and has nothing to do with any political campaign.”
In his spiel, Trump lists some of the features of the ‘God Bless the USA Bible’ which include the US Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence and the Pledge of Allegiance. In what sounds like a campaign stump, he says that many American don’t know the liberties and rights that they have, and how they “are being threatened to lose those rights.” Calling it a “very sad thing” and says that “we are going to get it turned around.”
He also says that the nation needs “religion and Christianity” and that the “country is going haywire” because the nation has lost religion. “All Americans need a Bible in their home, and I have many. It’s my favorite book,” he added.
The latest product he is flogging will most likely go down well among some of his strongest supporters in 2024, White evangelical Christians. Unlike his first campaign in 2016, they don’t seem phased this time that he is thrice-married, had an affair with a porn star, Stormy Daniels, and has been criminally indicted in four different cases.
Like wise, among his supporters he also is viewed as not very religious, nor can he name correctly a passage of the bible, if any, when asked which is his favorite part even though it is his favorite book along side ‘The Art of the Deal.”