The Gospel of Glitz: Trump’s Bejeweled True Believers of Bullshit.
Karoline Leavitt and Pam Bondi - Trump’s Barbie and Skipper Take The Beltway.
In the blinding light of the White House briefing room, the Trump administration’s twin apostles of audacity, Karoline Leavitt and Pam Bondi, stand before us as living testaments to an updated, plastic version of the prosperity gospel. Their words defend the indefensible, but it’s what dangles from their necks that truly mesmerizes — diamond crosses that catch the klieg lights and flash like theological disco balls.
The irony would be delicious if it weren’t so brazen. Leavitt, Trump’s Gen Z press secretary with her “$50,000 faith ornament” (if those diamonds are real — authenticity never a must for Trumpers), preaches from her gilded podium while the carpenter’s son from Nazareth — who owned little more than his sandals — must be spinning in his long-vacated tomb.
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