💬 The Rubin Recap: The Sunday return to normalcy

High holidays in America are sacrilegious no more

It was just two years ago on Easter, you may recall, that then-President Joe Biden infuriated Christians throughout America by declaring Easter Sunday, 2024, a “Transgender Day of Visibility.”

We are just two years removed from absolute insanity, people. There was a huge backlash at the time. Trump, who was barnstorming the country at that point on his way to being elected to a second term, was among the loudest to protest Biden’s proclamation.

“We call on Joe Biden’s failing campaign and White House to issue an apology to the millions of Catholics and Christians across America who believe tomorrow is for one celebration only — the resurrection of Jesus Christ,” Trump said via Karoline Leavitt, who was his campaign spokesperson at the time and is now the White House press secretary.

Christian leaders around the country were incensed, calling Biden’s proclamation “inexcusably offensive,” a “war on reality” and “absurd, shameful and [something that] seems intentional.”

The headlines were shocking to see, and still exist on the internet even though Google tries to suppress them.

None of this was normal. Nothing against transgender people, but they account for 1% of the U.S. population. And Biden thought it was normal to declare a special day for the group when it happened to coincide with the most holy day on Christians’ calendar. 🤔 As Jesse Watters pointed out this week, there are 16 days across the calendar devoted to trans people. 16. Days.

And Biden couldn’t wait a couple of days to pander to the trans cult, or maybe skip it altogether and wait for the next one, which wasn’t far behind. It certainly did seem intentional.

I want you to contrast Biden’s 2024 Easter Sunday proclamation with Trump’s proclamation in 2026. “We proclaim with joy that Christ has risen, a new creation has been ushered in, and evil and death have been conquered forever through the unmatched power of God’s sacrificial love,” Trump said in this year’s Easter message.

Now, you might be Jewish like me, so maybe Easter is not that important to you. I can understand that. But we’re in the middle of Passover right now, and Trump took the time to wish all Jews in America and around the world well as they celebrate.

“Over 3,000 years ago, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob delivered the ancient Israelites out of slavery and brought them into the promised land. It was an amazing period of time. Just like today, we have an amazing period of time. The journey started with faith in God's word and it ended with a miraculous march through the Red Sea and an astounding exodus out of Egypt. The world has never been the same,” Trump said in his Passover remarks.

He’s right.

I point all of this out on this Easter Sunday and during Passover because what Trump is doing is also very intentional. He’s returning things to some degree of normalcy — and you don’t have to think back very far to remember a time when things were decidedly not normal. Happy Easter and Happy Passover! ✝️ ✡️ 🇺🇸

Isabel Brown on being ambushed by the hosts of ‘The View’

My good friend Isabel Brown found herself in a weird spot this week when she came under fire by the hosts of The View, who lashed out at her remarks made at CPAC last week. It was a total ambush, and Isabel had no idea they’d be discussing her remarks — or that they even had discussed what she said until a reporter from Fox News reached out to ask for her reaction. Isabel told me she was “flabbergasted by the attack on me” unleashed by Whoopi Goldberg, Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro — all of which was about the last answer she gave to the last question asked of her during a 30-minute panel. You won’t believe what some of the mainstream media coverage was like. Of course, you know Isabel if you’ve watched the show — and this is her unvarnished response to the ambush by The View. 🔥