In June 2024, Trump posted on Truth Social in support of a Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public schools, writing: "I LOVE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS in public schools, private schools, and many other places, for that matter. Read it — how can we, as a Nation, go wrong???"
Fortunately - he gave an entire drasha about them!!:-)!!
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Thank you, everybody. Thank you. It’s great to be here. We love the Torah, don't we folks? We love it. It’s a bestseller. Number one bestseller for a long time. Even longer than The Art of the Deal, can you believe it? But very close. Very close numbers.
So we’re talking about this week’s parsha. It’s Yitro. Great guy, Yitro. He was a consultant. He comes to Moses—who, by the way, was a strong leader, but he had a stutter, okay? Not a great speaker, but strong on borders. Very strong on the Red Sea border. Also, G-d told him the borders of Israel. Gotta have strong borders. And no foreigners allowed. Legal citizens only. Like in our great country. Aren't we the greatest??
So Moses goes up the mountain. Mount Sinai. I’ve heard it’s a beautiful mountain. Very high. Higher than Mount Rushmore. When are they going to put MY face on Mount Rushmore. I'd like that. Huh, whattya you think? Not as high as Trump Tower, but very high. And there’s smoke, there’s fire. I don't smoke. Bad for the lungs. Very bad. But this is holy smoke. Maybe that's where the expression "holy smokes" comes from. The special effects were tremendous. Better than Hollywood, folks. Better than the failing Oscars. And God comes down, and He gives us the Ten Commandments.
And let me tell you, these aren't just commandments. They are a deal. A beautiful deal between God and the chosen people. And frankly, God made a perfect call. It was a perfect call.
Let’s look at the tablets. Stone. Very durable. Made in Heaven, not China. And you know, Moses comes down with two of them. Two tablets. Not one. Two. It’s a package deal. And what do they say?
Number One: "I am the Lord your God." You have to have loyalty. I value loyalty above everything. You don't want other gods. The other gods are a disaster. They’re total losers. Baal? Low energy. Total disaster. You stick with the One who brought you out of Egypt. It’s called brand loyalty, folks.
Number Two: "No idols." You look at the Golden Calf. That was a mistake. That was the Democrats. They built a cow. A golden cow. Tacky. Very tacky gold. Not the good stuff. And Moses sees it, and he gets angry. He breaks the tablets. He smashed them! But that’s okay, because we got a replacement. We renegotiated. We got a second set. Better terms.
On the Quality: "They say, 'Don't make an image of anything in heaven or earth.' Well, have you seen some of these images? They’re low-energy. They’re losers. If you’re going to make a golden calf, at least make it 24-karat. I’ve seen better calves at the Iowa State Fair, believe me."
On the Aesthetics: "The Commandment says no likeness of anything in the water. That means no sharks. I don't like sharks. I’m okay with that part. But no images of me? I have the best face! People tell me all the time, they say, 'Sir, we want a statue.' A big, beautiful, bronze statue. Maybe in the middle of Mar-a-Lago."
"I like this commandment. Very smart. You want to be the top brand. You don't want people looking at the competition. No other G-d's. The competition is low-rated, believe me. You stay loyal to the Number One, and we’re going to have a very good relationship."
Number Three: Don't swear falsely. Perjury. Really bad. Clinton did that. It's a Democrat thing. You can't trust them. You just can't. They will swear falsely - even using G-d's name. Terrible. Really terrible.
Number Four: "Remember the Sabbath." A day off. I like this one. You go to Mar-a-Lago, you play eighteen holes, you don't tweet. Well, maybe a little tweeting. But you rest. It’s important to recharge so you can win big on Sunday. My late friend Charlie wrote a whole book on the Sabbath. Very inspiring. A big loss. Really big.
"But we’re going to do it differently than the Bible says. We’re going to have the most beautiful Sundays. We’ll do a little church—maybe a very quick church, very fast—and then we go to the golf course. It’s a day of rest, and nobody rests better than me. I have the best rest."
Number Five: "Honor your father and mother." Very important. Good genes. I have the best genes. My father, Fred, great guy. You honor your parents, you get long life. It’s a quid pro quo, but the good kind. The perfect kind.
"Very important. My father, Fred Trump—great guy, high-energy. I honored him by taking a small loan and turning it into billions. That’s the best way to honor a parent. You take what they gave you, and you multiply it. If you don't make a profit, are you really honoring them? I don't think so."
Number Six: "Thou shalt not kill". Those are the pro abortionists. They kill those innocent babies. Shameful. And those illegal aliens they come into our country and kill and commit other crimes. We will find them and deport them. Very Biblical. Number Six!
Number Seven: "Thou shalt not commit adultery". Can you imagine?? Clinton using the White House to commit adultery?? He first broke the 7th commandment and then lied about it under oath - number 3. He deserves lyin' Hillary. Kennedy also was also a serial adulterer right here in the White House. And he called himself a Catholic. Both are Democrats, of course.
Number Eight: "Thou shalt not steal". That's the socialist Mamdani. Stealing from the rich. A disaster. Total disaster.
I read this, and I said, 'Incredible stuff.' But we have to look at the definitions. If you’re a genius in business and you use the tax laws—laws that are very unfair, by the way—is that stealing? No, that’s called being smart. We’re going to stop the actual stealing, like what they’re doing at the border and with our trade deals."
Number Nine: This is the big one, folks. Listen closely. "Thou shalt not bear false witness."
This is talking about the Fake News Media. CNN. MSNBC. The failing New York Times. They bear false witness every day. They say, "Trump did this, Trump did that." It’s a witch hunt. God knew about Fake News thousands of years ago. He put it right there in the Top Ten. "Don't lie about your neighbor." It’s very simple.
Number Ten: "Do not covet." You see my tower, you see the plane, you see the polls—and the polls are huge, by the way—and you get jealous. Don't be jealous. Work hard. Make your own deal. But don't look at your neighbor's donkey and say, "I want that donkey." It’s a nice donkey, but get your own. People are jealous of me. That's why they attack me non-stop. Crazy obessesion.
So, in conclusion, the Ten Commandments. Ten. A nice round number. Not twelve, not eight. Ten.
"People ask me, 'Donald, which Commandment is your favorite?' and I say all of them. They’re all great. But we’re going to put them in the classrooms, we're going to use a very large font—the best font, maybe Helvetica—and we’re going to make the Commandments great again."
We’re going to follow them, and we’re going to win. We’re going to win so much with these commandments, you’re going to get tired of winning. We are going to Make Israel Holy Again.
Thank you. God bless you. And God bless the United States of America.
