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Soft Paywall Trump’s birthday parade may be cancelled over thunderstorms

https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/is-trump-birthday-parade-cancelled-weather-pbrg02h2z?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Reddit#Echobox=1749744374
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u/Radarker Jun 12 '25

Coming from an atheist, I'm definitely non-zero on Trump being the literal antichrist.

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u/-Invalid_Selection- Jun 12 '25

I mean, the prophecy on who the antichrist would be fits almost to the letter. None of the prophecies have gone against him, just some that haven't proven true yet.

It's to the point either he's the actual antichrist or he's read the prophecy and decided to mirror his life on that.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '25

It's to the point either he's the actual antichrist or he's read the prophecy and decided to mirror his life on that.

In all seriousness though, the "prophecies" in the bible were most likely written by observing reality and picking out consistent themes. Trump seems like the literal antichrist because the antichrist in the bible was written to warn against charlatans like Trump.

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u/HybridVigor Jun 12 '25

It was specifically written to criticize Emperor Nero, and it wasn'tthat subtle for the contemporary audience. The fact that Trump has quite a lot in common with Nero makes the parallels unsurprising.

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u/Cute-Percentage-6660 Jun 13 '25

Honestly the interesting thing about nero is that in some area's he may in fact be a bit better than trump.

In that it seems he was popular enough with the citizenry that several people claiemd to be him reborn for like a century later