Donald Trump has once again solidified his reputation as the only modern American president to repeatedly mention and condemn the very real and horrific persecution of Christians around the world.
During his Sept. 22 speech before the U.N.—and in the context of condemning the “craven hypocrites of the Human Rights Council”—he said:
It is equally unacceptable that with all the genuine atrocities in the world, the UN’s top human rights officials spend their time criticizing the United States for protecting our children from transgender mutilation and transgender insanity and enforcing our immigration laws. What they do is unbelievable, what they do. It’s transgender mutilation of our children.
The craven hypocrites of the Human Rights Council have little to say about the persecution of Christians.
I mean, Christians are being persecuted all over the world. It’s not even believable. I never thought I’d say it, but it’s been happening for a long time. So this is persecution of Christians … yet they want America to open up our borders to gangs and criminals from the world’s most dangerous places. They want the worst people to come in from the worst places on earth …
Both of Trump’s points—that the global persecution of Christians and the U.N.’s hypocrisy are “not even believable”—are truer than he may know.
In fact, what is happening on both counts is surreal.
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