Last week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, on a trip to the Holy Land during the Jewish holiday of Purim, offered his diplomatic view that God anointed Trump a modern-day Queen Esther, the Purim heroine from the biblical Book of Esther.
The Christian Broadcasting Network, recalling Esther's 2,500-year-old role in persuading the Persian king not to follow Haman's evil plan to eradicate the Jews, asked Pompeo: "Could it be that President Trump right now has been sort of raised for such a time as this, just like Queen Esther, to help save the Jewish people from the Iranian menace?