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I was not in the US at that time but experienced butler pennsylvania through first many videos and later on through conversations with my family mostly.

Later I saw a youtube video of supposedly some prophesy of this happening, that really got me thinking.

Even though I believe politics is mostly theater, it is true that its hard to imagine an event that would elicit as much emotion in me (disgruntled "wants to love America" ex-patriot) as that one.

In the end, I didn't vote, instead attending the COP16 biodiversity summit.

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Trump is never given credit for being a talented actor but he is one. In the months before the election he gave a masterclass in body language and verbal language mismatch. This activated the mental models of people completely differently from the exact same sentence!

He said the words "I am not a Christian" and used the body language of "I am a Christian". This may seem easy to do but it requires a huge amount of training and talent.

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Great observation.

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At best (or worst), what Trump did in this clip is to enunciate the second word in that statement in such a way that it could be "a" and it could be "not". If it was "a", it was said in a New-York way that is typical of him. He did not clearly say that he's not Christian. It's also notable that if he had, he chose to say "I'm not Christian" rather than "I'm not a Christian", the latter of which would have left no room for doubt. I'm quite open to the idea that this is a little psy-op using ambiguity. It's either that, or he said "I'm a Christian".

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He is not a Christian. People heard what they wanted to.

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I don't think he's a Christian, but I was commenting on the word he used.

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