Pastor Mark Burns, the president’s informal “spiritual advisor,” wants to make one thing very clear about the extremely tall gold statue of Donald Trump that was officially dedicated last week in Doral, Miami. “Let me be clear: this is not a golden calf. We worship the Lord Jesus Christ and Him alone,” he wrote on Twitter.

He’s technically right, just as Rene Magritte was technically right that his painting of a pipe was not actually a pipe. In the most literal sense, the statue of Trump, which is named “Don Colossus” is not a golden calf.

Despite the president calling it “The Real Deal - GOLD,” on Truth Social, the statue is not made of gold. Unlike the golden calf, which was made from melting the jewelry of the Egyptians, the Trump statue is not actually made of solid gold. “Don Colossus” is cast in bronze and covered in gold leaf, making it much, much less valuable. It is also obviously not a calf, as calves are baby cows, and the statue is certainly not a baby cow.

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      19 hours ago

      frogs of locusts please. you can eat them. i’d prefer the locusts tho since the frogs will keep you up all night

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        9 hours ago

        You can eat locusts too. In fact they’re very nutritious. Taste like… Potato chips basically. You need two things to make them palatable: 1) spices, 2) pretend they’re not locusts

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          6 hours ago

          also the locusts are crunchy. people don’t realize how much you need crunch in your diet until you haven’t had it in a while