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Don Jr. says ‘satanic’ Olympics opening ceremony debauchery a ‘true disservice’ to athletes

July 28, 2024 | | Print Article

The Olympics’ boycott-inducing blasphemy prompted a to-the-point criticism from Donald Trump Jr. as others sounded off, “They’re all telling us who they are.”

Contrary to the worldview of gender ideologues, binaries exist and when it comes to Christianity the dividing line separates believers and pagans. As the Paris 2024 Olympic Games kicked off with a “gross” and “flippant mockery” of The Last Supper, the former first son shared his take on the “seemingly satanic” display.

Reacting on X, Trump Jr. brought up the skiing career of his late mother Ivana and wrote, “My mom was an Olympian (Czech [National] Ski Team), and as a kid we would be excited for weeks leading up to the games. Now with the ever predictable (& seemingly satanic to me) drag queen opening ceremonies and never ending bs, no one I know even thinks about it beyond maybe watching some highlights.”

“It’s such a shame that an event that used to create so much national pride now creates, at best, indifference. Using the games to push woke ideology has zero to do with anything the games stands for,” he continued. “Rather than highlighting the incredible accomplishments of these amazing athletes [corporate] media subverts all their hard work to push leftist insanity…it’s not only a shame, but a true disservice to some of the most talented and dedicated people on earth.”

Further, the son of former President Donald Trump wrote, “Hopefully one day enough people will finally have had enough of the BS. Till then you can continue to watch everything good and decent and everything you hold dear get burned to the f…ing ground. The choice is yours.”

Trump Jr.’s criticism of the ceremony, which featured a drag performer parody of The Last Supper complete with a singing Dionysus, (the Greek god whose purview boiled down to debauchery), was far from alone as calls for boycotts spread across social media, including telecommunications company C Spire which pulled all of their advertising from the games.

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Among those offering a full-throated opposition to the games was popular social media commentator Catturd who’d shared images from the ceremony with the caption, “First full day of boycotting the Anti-[Christian] Satanic Olympics.”

In response, Trump Jr. asserted, “They’re not even pretending anymore.”

Rising to the defense of the display during a Saturday press conference, artistic director Thomas Jolly, the man responsible for the opening ceremony, argued, “When we want to include everyone and not exclude anyone, questions are raised.”

“Our subject was not to be subversive. We never wanted to be subversive. We wanted to talk about diversity. Diversity means being together. We wanted to include everyone, as simple as that,” he claimed despite the blatant anti-Christian message made against 2.4 billion faithful. “In France, we have freedom of creation, artistic freedom. We are lucky in France to live in a free country. I didn’t have any specific messages that I wanted to deliver. In France, we are a republic, we have the right to love whom we want, we have the right not to be worshippers, we have a lot of rights in France, and this is what I wanted to convey.”

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Joining those speaking out and inspiring others to do likewise, Bishop Robert Barron, founder of the Word On Fire Catholic Ministries released a video on X that has since been viewed over 3 million times.

In it, he described the whiplash having just marked the 10th National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis, Indiana with 50,000 Catholics only to turn on the Olympics to see his faith mocked.

“France felt evidently, as it’s trying to put its best cultural foot forward, the right thing to do is to mock this very central moment in Christianity, where Jesus at His Last Supper gives His body and blood in anticipation of the cross. And so it’s presented though as the gross sort of flippant mockery,” said Barron. “France, which used to be called the eldest daughter of the church, Paris, that gave us — Thomas Aquinas taught there, and Vincent De Paul was there, and King Louis IX, St. Louis — France has sent Catholic missionaries all over the world.”

“France, whose culture — and I mean the honoring of the individual, of human rights, of freedom — is grounded very much in Christianity, felt the right thing to do is mock the Christian faith,” he reiterated before suggesting the same slight would not have been made against Islam and called out, “This deeply secularist, post-modern society knows who its enemy is, they’re naming it, and we should believe them. They’re telling us who they are. We should believe them. But furthermore, we Christians, we Catholics should not be sheepish. We should resist. We should make our voices heard.”

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