Heaven or hell? Trump has a feeling about where his father ended up

Little did Fred Trump know that by giving his son hundreds of millions of dollars, he eventually would create the authoritarian wanna-be, criminal, adjudicated sexual predator and insurrectionist who would take a wrecking ball to American politics by lying, defrauding the government, destroying people’s trust in institutions and rubbing steroidal cream on white grievances and racism.
Of course, even before he did all that, Fred Trump was found to have discriminated against Blacks and might have been involved in the Ku Klux Klan.
Which is probably be why, at a rally in Macon, Ga. on Sunday, even his favored son, Donald Trump, told supporters that while his mother is “definitely looking down” from heaven, his father is “questionable” and he might be looking up instead.
Even all that money, it seems, couldn’t make Donald a character witness for his dad.
Then again, the idea of heaven and hell would seem antithetical to Trump, who is selling Bibles, but says he’s never asked for forgiveness; insists the Bible is one of his favorite books, but refuses to name a passage that inspires him; and allows himself to be deified by the MAGA movement and Christian nationalists, despite it violating the Commandments.
In addition, the Trumps didn’t believe in the New Testament’s preachings to “render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s …” you know, lawful taxes.
According to a New York Times investigation in 2018:
Trump received the equivalent today of at least $413 million from his father’s real estate empire, starting when he was a toddler and continuing to this day.
Much of this money came to Mr. Trump because he helped his parents dodge taxes. He and his siblings set up a sham corporation to disguise millions of dollars in gifts from their parents, records and interviews show. Records indicate that Mr. Trump helped his father take improper tax deductions worth millions more. He also helped formulate a strategy to undervalue his parents’ real estate holdings by hundreds of millions of dollars on tax returns, sharply reducing the tax bill when those properties were transferred to him and his siblings.
These maneuvers met with little resistance from the Internal Revenue Service, The Times found. The president’s parents, Fred and Mary Trump, transferred well over $1 billion in wealth to their children, which could have produced a tax bill of at least $550 million under the 55 percent tax rate then imposed on gifts and inheritances.
The Trumps paid a total of $52.2 million, or about 5 percent, tax records show.
Whether he’s in heaven or hell, or just in the ground at the Lutheran-Christian All Faiths Cemetery in Middle Village in Queens, Fred Trump certainly has a lot to answer for. Even his son seems to realize that.
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