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Donald Trump’s Bible fraud may be hitting a new all-time low.

Singer-songwriter Lee Greenwood proposed Sunday night that Trump might be sworn in on a Trump-branded Bible.

“When Donald Trump puts his hand on the Bible and takes the oath to take care of the country and he’s the 47th president of the United States, I hope it’s going to be this Bible —” Greenwood told Fox News at Trump’s inauguration rally. , holding up a special gold edition of Trump’s God Bless the USA Bible.

“There’s only 5,000 of these. And I know he’ll take the oath by putting his hand on several Bibles. He might do this one, too,” Greenwood continued.

It’s possible that Greenwood is just trying to sell something during his five minutes on TV. Last week, Trump’s inauguration committee announced that the president-elect would use the same two Bibles he used during his first inauguration in 2017: one used by Abraham Lincoln in 1861 and another given to Trump by his mother in 1955.

The kitschy copies of the good book are a joint venture between Trump and Greenwood, who popularized the song it’s named after. As of August, the “only Bible approved by President Trump,” as the website boasts, already had cashed in $300,000 in royalties to the newly elected president.

While regular copies of Trump’s Bible usually cost around $60, special editions “commemorating the 45th and 47th president” are available for pre-order for $99.99.

What better way to illustrate that for Trump, taking the oath of office has never been anything more than a moneymaking ordeal than for him to use it as an opportunity to sell Bibles?