Humiliating the Helpless

August 12, 2024: Should Christians Support Donald Trump? Part 2

Former President Trump has found a convenient scapegoat for us to dogpile: immigrants who want to enter the United States, and undocumented people in the United States. These demographic groups are largely powerless, so Donald Trump can, and does, verbally trample them with relish and abandon.
In June of 2016, Donald Trump said, “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending people that have lots of problems…they’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime, they’re rapists, and some, I assume are good people.”1 and 2
Eight years later, at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 18, 2024, Former President Trump said immigrants are “coming from prisons, they’re coming from jails, they’re coming from mental institutions and insane asylums.”3 and 4

While it may be politically shrewd that Donald Trump has found us these convenient helpless demographic groups to pummel, disparaging immigrants and the undocumented is also condemned in the Holy Bible. Ezekiel 22:29-31 says:

“The people of the land…oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the foreigner, denying them justice. So, I will pour out my wrath on them and consume them with my fiery anger…declares the Sovereign Lord.”


Perhaps it has never occurred to wealthy Former President Trump that “hounding the poor and the needy to death” is detestable, for Psalm 109:15-17 says:


“May their sins always remain before the Lord, that he may blot out their name from the earth. For he never thought of doing a kindness, but hounded to death the poor and the needy and the brokenhearted. He loved to pronounce a curse; may it come upon him. He found no pleasure in blessing; may it be far from him.”


Some of the characteristics of a hero are: someone with empathy and compassion. Someone who protects the weak and helps those who are less fortunate. But since Donald Trump is bashing the weak and maligning the less fortunate, he is a villain.