Newsmax served up more Trump rally stenography for April 2 rallies in Wisconsin and Michigan:
- Trump Holds Campaign Rally in Green Bay, Warns of Biden Betrayal
- Trump Tells Green Bay, Nov. 5 Victory Must Be ‘Too Big to Rig’
- Trump Taunts Dems, Biden, Media With ‘Border Bloodbath’ Rebuke
- Michigan Police Group ‘Proud’ to Endorse Trump
Around this time, there was a minor controversy ripe for right-wing exploitation, and Eric Mack touting Trump and fellow travelers doing so in a March 31 article:
The White House openly proclaiming Easter Sunday, the culmination of Holy Week, as the “Transgender Day of Visibility” is blasphemy that warrants an apology to those who observe the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Trump campaign demanded Saturday.
“It is appalling and insulting that Joe Biden’s White House prohibited children from submitting religious egg designs for their Easter Art Event, and formally proclaimed Easter Sunday as ‘Trans Day of Visibility,'” Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote in a statement.
It is an open attack on Christians, she continued.
[…]Another pro-Trump voice and former President Bill Clinton accuser Juanita Broaddrick noted the stark contrast in presidents, sharing a video on X of then-President Trump declaring Easter Sunday that we “proclaim with joy, Christ is risen.”
The White House X account posted a quick message, saying “Happy Easter from the Biden-Harris Administration!”
But Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., seized on the day falling on Easter as a proverbial rejection of God.
“Biden and the Democrats decided Easter — the Holy Day of our Savior’s Resurrection — as transgender day of visibility,” Greene posted to X. “There is no length Biden and the Democrats won’t go to to mock your faith, and to thumb his nose at God.
“We know that Christ is King and God will not be mocked, just like we know Joe Biden isn’t really the one calling the shots in the White House. Psalm 37:13: ‘but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he knows their day is coming.'”
Mack didn’t tell his readers that Transgender Day of Visibility has always been on March 31, while Easter changes dates each year and just happened to fall on March 31 this year. He also failed to counter Leavitt’s claim about religious message in Easter eggs by pointing out the fact that this policy has been in place for decades.
An April 2 article by NIck Koutsobinas hyped a Trump declaration at the Wisconsin rally:
Former President Donald Trump proclaimed during a campaign rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on Tuesday that Election Day, Nov. 5, 2024, will be “Christian Visibility Day.”
“On Nov. 5, we’re going to win” Wisconsin, Trump told a packed crowd. “We’re going to win the White House, and we’re going to save our country.”
“And what the hell was [President Joe] Biden thinking when he declared Easter Sunday to be ‘Trans Visibility Day?’ Such total disrespect to Christians. And Nov. 5 is going to be called something else. Do you know what it’s going to be called,” he asked the crowd. “Christian Visibility Day; when Christians turn out in number that nobody has ever seen before.”
Koutsobinas also failed to report that Transgender Day of Visibility has always been on March 31. Newsmax served up an April 1 column by Craig Shirley laughably likening Biden to Pontius Pilate:
Like Pontius Pilate, Biden sold his soul for the sake of the crowd.
He has also forsaken his principles much like Judas sold out Christ for 30 pieces of silver.
Ethics were foreign to Pilate.
Biden has sold out Israel, placating the left-wing antisemites on college campuses.
Of course, Shirley insisted without evidence that Biden “more-than-seemingly went out of his way to honor, not Jesus and the Resurrection, but alternative lifestyles.”
Newsmax also published a dishonest April 1 column on the subject by Todd Starnes:
The White House is under fire after declaring Easter Sunday as “Transgender Visibility Day.” It’s a direct attack on the holiest day in the Christian faith.
The Biden administration also failed to post a proclamation about Good Friday.
And they banned children from decorating White House Easter Eggs with religious images.
As I wrote in my new book, “Twilight’s Last Gleaming,” I truly believe the Democrats hate Jesus Christ.
Needless to say, Starnes censored the fact that the Easter egg policy is longstanding and the transgender day has always been on March 31.