The Eternal Con: From Holy Hustlers to Trumpian Tricksters
(By The National Association for the Advancement of Humanity)
It’s an old story — clever people bilking the gullible. The oldest con in history is religion itself. “Send your money and save your soul,” the TV preachers cry, as they smile into the camera from their multimillion-dollar mansions. They sell invisible miracles and heavenly timeshares while the faithful scrape by, convinced that a donation buys a front-row seat in paradise.
The formula is timeless: Sell fantasy. Promise salvation. Collect cash.
Enter Donald Trump — the modern-day messiah of the con. He’s taken the oldest grift in the book and turned it into a political movement. “Make America Great Again” is just the latest version of “Pay me, and you’ll go to heaven.” The slogans are the same; only the currency has changed.
While Trump bathes himself in gold leaf and self-praise, his followers are left holding the bag — poorer, sicker, and dumber. The man who claims to be the voice of the people has mastered the art of robbing them blind. He gives tax breaks to billionaires while gutting healthcare for working families. He waves a Bible he’s never read while dismantling education and promoting ignorance through a carnival of home-school myths and religious propaganda mills.
And what’s next on the grifter’s wish list? Your Social Security check. As he lounges in his marble-plated fantasy palace, Trump dreams of turning the Social Security system — the one millions rely on to survive — into another jackpot for Wall Street cronies.
Meanwhile, his followers cheer, blinded by the glitter and the showmanship, convinced the man draped in gold is their savior.
The truth is simple: Trump isn’t making America great — he’s making it a gold-plated shithouse.
The tragedy is that people still believe the salesman. They always have. From the snake-oil preacher to the fake billionaire prophet, it’s the same gospel of greed: “Trust me, and I’ll save you.”
Maybe someday America will stop worshiping its con men. Until then, the rest of us must keep shouting the truth — that patriotism isn’t blind devotion to a hustler, and faith in humanity means learning to see through the lies.
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