Amendment Abolishing Slavery Missing from Trump's Bible
Trump's endorsed God Bless the USA Bible omits other key constitutional provisions
The God Bless the USA Bible that Trump endorsed and began selling for $59.99 a pop during Holy Week, packages the King James Version Bible along with the lyrics to God Bless the USA, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Pledge of Allegiance. As it turns out, Trump's Bible is missing some key pieces important to voters.
Multiple video reviews analyzed by MeidasTouch revealed that notably missing from the Constitution in Trump’s Bible are the amendments following the Bill of Rights which make up the Constitution's first 10 amendments. Trump's Bible jumps from the original Constitution to the Bill of Rights and then to the Pledge of Allegiance, skipping constitutional amendments 11-27.
That means Trump's Bible is missing the amendments abolishing slavery and granting women and Black people the right to vote from the volume's back matter.
That's a pretty big oversight. Yes, those amendments were added at later dates, but Trump's God Bless the USA Bible contains the lyrics to God Bless the USA which was released in 1984 and the version of the pledge of allegiance containing "under God" which appears in Trump's Bible is from 1954.
Only one amendment to the Constitution, the 27th Amendment, was ratified in 1992, 7 years after the release of God Bless the USA song in 1984. The other amendments were ratified before Greenwood's song was release.
Greenwood has been selling his God Bless the USA Bible since 2021. There is no good reason for Trump's Bible not to includes the amendments abolishing slavery and securing voting rights for all people.
Here's a list of some of the more notable amendments that Trump's Bible leaves out:
12th Amendment - Electoral College
This amendment spells out how the electoral college votes. With all the false elector schemes Trump's people pushed, no wonder he endorsed a Bible missing this part.
13th Amendment - Abolished Slavery
This amendment formally abolished slavery in the United States except for those convicted of a crime. Trump's Bible / Constitution combo doesn't include this one. That's a big deal.
14th Amendment - Post Civil War loyalty, etc
It may come as no surprise that the Constitution in Trump's Bible leaves out the Insurrectionist clause. This was the amendment that lawsuits were using to remove Trump from the ballot in reaction to his attempt to overturn the 2020 election results and sending his mob to descend on the Capitol on January 6th.
No wonder Trump's endorsed Bible leaves this amendment reacting to the seditious Confederate traitors out.
15th Amendment - Those once enslaved can now vote
The amendment banned using "race, color or previous condition of servitude" to keep people from voting. This granted Black people the right to vote. If Trump is trying to win the Black vote, why does the Bible that he endorsed leave this amendment out?
19th Amendment - Women can now vote
This is an important one too. The 19th Amendment ensures women have the right to vote in the United States. Now, some MAGA people wish women couldn't vote. Those people probably like that Trump endorsed a Constitution devoid of that right.
22nd Amendment - Limits presidents to only serving 2 terms
Trump said he wants to be a dictator on day 1. He has also posted memes of campaigns signs implying he will be in office for a long time, longer that 2 terms. The Trump endorsed the God Bless the USA Bible didn't print the amendment restricting him to 2 terms.
24th Amendment - Bye bye poll tax
We needed an entire amendment because racists were changing Black people a fee to vote. Those racists didn't think the 15th Amendment was clear enough. You'll never read about this amendment abolishing poll taxes in Trump's endorsed Bible.
26th Amendment - 18 year olds can vote
This amendment grants 18 year olds the right to across the country. Young people tend to not vote for Republicans and are by and large turned off by Trump and his awful rhetoric.
The more young people who vote, the worse off it is for Republicans. Is this why this amendment doesn't appear in Trump's Bible?
Trump endorsed a Bible that is missing some of the key constitutional amendments out there that shape the nation as it is today. The $59.99 God Bless the USA Bible doesn't include the abolishment of slavery, and establishing voting rights for all people. So much for the GOP being the "party of Lincoln."
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