where the lynchings occurred, the states that turned out and voted so solidly for donald trump. and there are descendents in those states, descendants of people who enjoyed those lynchings in those same states who are ashamed of what their ancestors did, what their ancestors believed, and recoil at the sound of people like donald trump calling people animals. such is the nature of the stutter step of human progress. no one would condemn donald trump calling people animals more than jesus christ would. christianity is filled with teachings aimed at stifling our gut instincts. turn the other cheek. no country has made more of a mockery of religion, especially its historically dominant religion, christianity, than the united states of america has. virtually ever enthusiastic attendee of a lynching in
stutter step of human progress. no one would condemn donald trump calling people animals more than jesus christ would. christianity is filled with teachings aimed at stifling our gut instincts. turn the other cheek. no country has made more of a mockery of religion, especially its historically dominant religion, christianity, than the united states of america has. virtually ever enthusiastic attendee of a lynching in american history was a christian, and many of them were relentlessly determined haters of other christians. many of them were christians who believed that catholics were animals simply because they were catholics. everyone can now see how perverse those forms of american christianity were and how perverse was their belief that the people they were lynching were animals.
show to have it all changed. thanks, ryan. for more on this, let me bring in chris cillizza, editor at large. what is going on here with ronny jackson? nothing good from the white house s perspective, kate. i think and ryan mentioned this, donald trump is someone who very much embraces his gut instincts, his seat of the pants decision-making. he likes ronny jackson. they have a personal relationship. i think he liked how ronny jackson did in that press conference, we are talked about donald trump s health, said if he got on a little bit better diet, he might live until he s 200. that s all music to donald trump s ears. and so he picked him. i don t think ronny jackson was vetted. remember, being the white house physician, president obama named him the white house physician in 2013, that s different than heading the va, second largest bureaucracy in the government. there are already concerns among democrats, yes, but also republicans, about ronny jackson s sort of ability for
concerned to be a force on the president. she s dwoen. in a normal situation a key player would be the secretary of state. secretary of state is gone. you have now john bolton coming in. how does that change the equation? it leaves the president more dependent on his gut instincts. it s one thing to run a real estate company spontaneously, but as my experience in the armed services committee told me, the world is a complicated, dangerous place. you can t run it by yourself. you can t know everything. so any president particularly one without deep experience in national security matters needs a solid team around him or her. and unfortunately that s kind of falling away from this president leaving him floundering a little bit. we have these reports that russia has been jamming u.s. military drones. ben sass had this to say.
at the washington post, tell us about the state of play in the white house. you have heard from the beginning of this administration this idea of caging the president or surrounding him with people but his natural state has always been in the private sect or the way he like to operate is closer to what he s arriving at right now, correct? that s exactly right. what he s doing at the white house is replicating what he had on the 26th floor of the trump tower in manhattan. he ran the trump organization, him on his cluttered desk calling people on the outside to make decisions. he had a staff, he had lawyers who helped him with his litigation, he had a secretary to field his calls but he got his advice from friends on the outside, bankers, media personalities, from even rival developers and businessmen and he acted everyday waking up not sure what he s going to do but acting on impulse and gut. he believes he has the best gut instincts of anyone out there. a lot of people would questi