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You will know a tree by its salty fruit

Franklin Graham cares about Trump’s language. So does Jesus, but for very different reasons.

“The president, his pulpit—his microphone—is huge, and it carries a lot of weight,” he told Deseret News. “So I’m going to continue to try to encourage him. He’s not just the president of this country. He is a world figure that other nations, other presidents, other people, look up to and want to emulate. … That microphone goes a long way.”

Finally! A little righteous anger from a Christian Trump loyalist. And what’s the cause of this anger from the president of Samaritan’s Purse, an organization devoted to evangelism and international disaster relief? Is it Trump’s isolationist rhetoric and slashing of global aid? His disparagement of immigrants and refugees? His hard lean into fascism?

Nope. For Graham, the issue is simply Trump’s “salty” language.