Ahead of Trump's keynote speech at the CPAC conference this weekend, two staffers wheeled in a massive golden statue of the insurrectionist former president, and everyone was thinking about the idol created by Israelities when Moses went up to Mt. Sinai.

Wrote one Twitter user with more following suit: “Republicans wheel in the golden calf as they prepare to wander the electoral desert for 40 years.”

Republicans wheel in the golden calf as they prepare to wander the electoral desert for 40 years. https://t.co/S1x8xhbVCA
— Wesley Clark (@WesClarkjr) February 26, 2021

My God. They have now made him a literal golden calf.
— Chuck Kourouklis ☮️ (@CKourouklis) February 26, 2021

Please tell me that @SachaBaronCohen is about to jump out of this golden calf. https://t.co/qR7NGGfCe4
— Holly Figueroa O'Reilly 🌸 (@AynRandPaulRyan) February 26, 2021

As many people have noted in the replies, it appears the conservative “Christians” of the Trumpian right have gone all-in on worshipping their golden calf. Perhaps @marcorubio can recall the appropriate verse in his tweets… https://t.co/8WA1i1oBdw
— Nope. (@JoyAnnReid) February 26, 2021

This reminds me of that religious story, something something something Golden Calf, something something graven image, something something false idols.

But what do I know, I'm not very religious. https://t.co/rOwxvNQM7W
— BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ (@mmpadellan) February 26, 2021

The golden calf jokes aren't subtle and wry when they make it all obvious like that https://t.co/mNQzwjgGsh
— Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (@TheRaDR) February 26, 2021

https://twitter.com/CaptNostradamus/status/1365166357071937537?s=20

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