The story of David and Goliath is a biblical tale of a young shepherd who defeats a Philistine giant with a sling and stones. The story is often interpreted as a triumph of underdogs over giants.
Though an extremely popular story, there is some doubt that he President of the United States, Donald Trump, has ever heard it.
That’s right, Donald Trump, the man who put the ‘con’ in convert.
The closest Trump has ever come to a Bible is most likely when he released a video on his Truth Social platform last March urging his supporters to buy the “God Bless the USA Bible” for $59.99
One reason it’s doubtful Trump is familiar with the story of David and Goliath is that he has spent his entire life admiring and supporting the Goliaths of the world, while disdaining the Davids.
Take Elon Musk, for example.
Despite all his personal flaws, Musk has the one characteristic that Trump admires more than anything else: he is extremely wealthy.
Because of his enormous wealth, and the fact he gave Trump’s presidential campaign $250 million, Musk was in position to have any post he desired from the President in return. He opted for a position of unfettered power in the federal government and got it because…
With Trump, Goliath always wins.
Trump’s inauguration audience included a murderers' row of tech billionaires, the Goliaths of tech CEOs: Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Google’s Sundar Pichai, Apple’s Tim Cook and TikTok’s Shou Zi Chew, each paying a reported minimum of $1 million per front-row seat.
But they were buying more than just a seat at the opening act; they purchased seats of powerful influence with Trump during his entire administration due to their wealth. If you think tech giants’ greed is detrimental to the culture and your children’s futures, it’s only going to get worse because…
With Trump, Goliath always wins.
During his presidential campaign, Trump made no secret concerning his intentions for the energy industry. Trump sought a $1 billion campaign donation from executives of Exxon, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and other oil companies.
In exchange, the oil industry has a list of policy actions and executive orders it wants Trump to take to help them increase their profits while also impeding the renewable energy industry which lacks the kind of money Trump demands for political influence.
Trump’s early executive orders indicate it was money well spent since…
With Trump, Goliath always wins.
The history of conflict in Gaza is difficult to understand unless one does research which, of course, Donald Trump has not done since he does not like to read.
Trump has stated that the conflict would have never happened if he had been president—which is likely true. That’s because he would have given Israel exactly what it wanted before it started.
Based on Trump’s recent comments, he would have simply aided Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in exiling all Palestinians to other countries, bulldozing Gaza, building a lavish resort named Trump Gaza, and pocketing billions.
After all, with arms supplied by the U.S., Israel is the military power in the area, and humanely just or not…
With Trump, Goliath always wins.
Most applicable to the David and Goliath biblical story is the ongoing conflict in Ukraine where Trump’s biased support of Goliath could not be clearer.
While everyone in the world possessing any knowledge of world affairs knows that Russia invaded Ukraine, Trump denies it. While everyone the least bit interested in facts knows that Vladimir Putin heads a Russian authoritarian dictatorship while Zelensky heads a democratic state in Ukraine, Trump claims the opposite.
Trump repeatedly states that the war could have been prevented if he had been president. And, again, it’s true. He would have simply handed over Ukraine on a silver platter to Putin.
That’s because, despite all the obvious facts, Trump fully supports helping Russia and cheating Ukraine since Russia is the Goliath in this conflict. And Donald Trump can only personally gain a financial windfall from this conflict if he helps Russia prevail.
"I am in serious discussions with President Vladimir Putin of Russia concerning the ending of the War, and also major Economic Development transactions which will take place between the United States and Russia,” Trump recently wrote on his platform.
One should read “between the United States and Russia” as between The Trump Organization and Russia. That’s because in his 1987 book ‘Art of the Deal’ Trump dreamed of "a large luxury hotel across the street from the Kremlin in partnership with the Soviet government." Handing over Ukraine to Russia is the perfect opportunity for his dream to come true.
Trump continues writing on his platform last week: "In the meantime, we are successfully negotiating an end to the War with Russia, something all admit only 'TRUMP,' and the Trump Administration, can do."
That’s because…
Only with ‘TRUMP,’ does Goliath always win.
Being unfamiliar with the biblical lesson in the David and Goliath story, Donald Trump forgets that the world today is full of ‘Davids’ to bring down the ‘Goliaths.’ One was possibly a bat in a Chinese open marketplace during his first term as president.
This time it may be a chicken in someone’s backyard.