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Preacher Joe Scarborough Mocks Trump Statue as 'Blasphemous' Golden Calf
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 05/11/2026 12:47:05 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

Over the years, Joe Scarborough has often mounted his Morning Joe pulpit to proclaim on a variety of religious subjects from his Baptist upbringing. He was on "blasphemy" watch on Monday mocking a new statue of Donald Trump as a "blasphemous" Golden Calf on his Doral golf course in Miami.

"This is Old Testament stuff, I tell you. That kinda looks like, Moses comes down from the mountain with the tablets, and that's what's there."

Scarborough sarcastically surmised that the statue was "so blasphemous" that it had to be something out of South Park.

SCARBOROUGH: Was this a South Park stunt? Is this Matt Parker and Trey Stone behind this? Matt Parker and Trey Stone have to be behind something so blasphemous.

I’m sorry, is this not a South Park episode, where you have somebody that keeps pushing the town of South Park, and pushing the town of South Park, and they keep getting more and more blasphemous until they go, “Okay, let’s just do the Golden Calf statue.”

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1 posted on 05/11/2026 12:47:05 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

It looks like something you’d see in Pyongyang.


2 posted on 05/11/2026 12:48:25 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

It seems there’s no cure for TDS.


3 posted on 05/11/2026 12:49:08 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: patro; abb; SE Mom; HarleyLady27; connyankee; Behind Liberal Lines; KC_Lion; frank ballenger; ...

When in need of religious instruction, I always think first of Preacher Joe.

Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.


4 posted on 05/11/2026 12:49:21 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Please ping or FReepmail me to be added to the Liberal Media Criticism ping list.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

THERE ARE NO LIMITATIONS ON FINDING THE RIGHT MURDERER, JOE.


5 posted on 05/11/2026 12:51:33 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Trump did not order the statue to be made.


6 posted on 05/11/2026 12:52:39 PM PDT by roving
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Absurd accusation. That’s obviously a Golden Pig.


7 posted on 05/11/2026 12:52:52 PM PDT by babble-on
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
There are 4,000 of these blasphemous statues of Colonel Sanders in Japan.


8 posted on 05/11/2026 12:53:59 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: roving

So it was made without his approval?


9 posted on 05/11/2026 1:02:30 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Import the third world. Become the second world.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Hey Joe, guess what else is mentioned in the Old Testament? Don’t murder...(allegedly).


10 posted on 05/11/2026 1:06:29 PM PDT by GMThrust (.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Statues are not in and of themselves idols. They have to be made for idolatrous purposes in order to be so, or treated as such.

No one is worshiping this. Or the statues of Grant, Keys, Ghandi etc sitting around San Francisco. Gavin Newsom’s bust as well as many other mayors’ busts are at City Hall. They aren’t idols for Pete’s sake.


11 posted on 05/11/2026 1:17:32 PM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
lets not forget to include the folks in attendance at this prayerful dedication.


12 posted on 05/11/2026 1:17:56 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I find it hard to believe that anything is ‘blasphemous’ to Joe. He just likes using words and references he thinks are impressive.


13 posted on 05/11/2026 1:29:44 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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14 posted on 05/11/2026 1:32:39 PM PDT by Gunslingr3
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To: Gunslingr3

Joe has back-slid all the way off our flat planet.


15 posted on 05/11/2026 1:40:43 PM PDT by Colt1851Navy (@!@)
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To: dfwgator

Just for you and your buddies:

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16 posted on 05/11/2026 1:45:15 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I’m sure that Joe has no problem with the statues of Obama and George Foyd that have been erected? Does he also object to the Lincoln Monument?


17 posted on 05/11/2026 1:48:37 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle1
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I don’t think anyone is worshipping the Trump statue.


18 posted on 05/11/2026 1:49:15 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle1
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To: Responsibility2nd

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-gold-statue-golf-course-pastor-b2972303.html


19 posted on 05/11/2026 2:01:00 PM PDT by dforest
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Poor Joe, jealousy of Trump lives in his head rent free 24/7.


20 posted on 05/11/2026 2:04:27 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's okay... I wasn't married to it.)
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