President Trump has been out of public sight since Wednesday night’s Iran war address when health crisis rumors forced the White House to issue an emergency statement Saturday.
Sunday he reemerged, not to address the nation or attend church on Easter, but to take a “ceremoniously slow” motorcade loop around Memorial Circle near the Arlington Memorial Bridge, an area where Trump has reportedly proposed building an arch honoring himself, before making his way to Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia.
The day before, unverified claims that he had been rushed to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center sent social media into overdrive. The White House spent Saturday pointing to a Marine sentry at the West Wing door as their only proof the president was working.
St. John’s Episcopal Church, which has hosted every president since 1816, held three Easter services that morning. Trump attended none of them.
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The day had started at 8:03 a.m. on Truth Social with an f-bomb ultimatum to Iran and a sign-off reading “Praise be to Allah.”
MTG had something to say about that.
“On Easter morning, this is what President Trump posted. Everyone in his administration that claims to be a Christian needs to fall on their knees and beg forgiveness from God and stop worshipping the President and intervene in Trump’s madness,” she wrote on X.
She kept going. “I know all of you and him and he has gone insane, and all of you are complicit. This is NOT what we promised the American people when they overwhelmingly voted in 2024. This is not making America great again. This is evil.”
On the other side of the Atlantic, Pope Leo XIV used his first Easter address from St Peter’s Basilica to say something entirely different. “Let those who have weapons lay them down. Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace.”
Melania was not there. Neither was Barron. Both have kept deliberately low profiles throughout Trump’s second term and Sunday was no different.
Trump did speak to Fox News correspondent Trey Yingst in a 15-minute call. Yingst reported from Tel Aviv. “The president tells me, ‘if they don’t make a deal, and fast, I’m considering blowing everything up and taking over the oil.'” He added: “The president went on to say, ‘you’re going to see bridges and power plants dropping all over their country.'”
Trump holds a press conference with military officials Monday at 1 p.m. The April 6 deadline for Iran expires Monday evening. Tuesday, according to his Easter morning post, is Power Plant Day.
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