2024 has brought the weirdest Olympic games yet. Fans tend to look forward to beauty and pageantry in the opening ceremonies for the games. But this year the games in Paris opened with a theatrical set piece that strikes many as grotesque and mocking of Christianity.
Donald Trump, Jr., is the latest prominent figure to speak out on the performance, calling it “Satanic.”
The display really must be seen to be believed; the relevant portions of video can be viewed in this Tweet. Public backlash was so immediate and strong that the Olympics themselves pulled the video from their online offerings.
Despite disingenuous protests by organizers, it is clear to most viewers that the theater piece was a mockery of the imagery in Da Vinci’s famous painting The Last Supper. The camera shows a long table at which more than a dozen strangely costumed performers were seated and standing.
A chubby man with blue-painted skin (portraying the Greek god of pleasure, Dionsysus) and a scanty covering of fake fruit in his genital region emerges from underneath a silver food platter while drag queens and performers in bizarre costumes and makeup look on. Seated at the center of the table is an obese woman displaying as much of her breasts as can be gotten away with on TV, wearing a headpiece that suggests a heavenly halo.
Organizers have scoffed at those objecting, characterizing them as too dimwitted to understand that the piece had nothing to do with Christianity or The Last Supper. This is simply not believable to most who view the performance. The event organizers have issued a typical “not-pology” implying that it was the fault of unsophisticated viewers for taking offense.
Trump Jr. isn’t buying it. His mother Ivana was an Olympic contestant for the Czech team in the past, and he said he used to look forward to the grace and beauty of the games. But the current performance was “seemingly Satanic) and full of “never-ending BS.”
Trump Jr. said it was “a shame” that a gathering meant to induce national pride in a healthy competition now engenders only “indifference.” Olympic organizers should not use the event to “push woke ideology,” he said.
Christian telecommunications company was incensed by the display and said it was “shocked by the mockery” of Christianity. The company immediately pulled all of its planned ads from the rest of the games.
