Apparently realizing that there are actually at least some limits to the kind of horseshit people will tolerate, Oklahoma Superintendent of Education Ryan Walters on Monday announced that he was loosening the specifications for the 55,000 Bibles he’s using taxpayer funds to purchase and put in classrooms after his attempt to pretty blatantly make sure that either one of two “patriotic”-themed editions endorsed by convicted felon former President Trump when at least one, probably both, of the publishers are paying fatass a royalty percentage from every sale, the Associated Press reports.

“The left-wing media hates Donald Trump so much, and they hate the Bible so much, they will lie and go to any means necessary to stop this initiative from happening,” Walters said in a video announcing he was capitulating to the woke mob. Walters’ spokesman Dan Issett confirmed the RFP had been updated and that the bid period would be amended after a state budget office told them it was illegal to rig the bidding process. “Unfortunately, there have been false reports that have been repeated by numerous, supposedly credible, news organizations that the state’s RFP was catered to one specific organization,” said Issett. He is correct because even though the AP’s report says it was solely the $60 Lee Greenwood “God Bless the USA” Bible that qualified, according to the Oklahoman there was another edition, the also-Trump-endorsed $90 “We The People Bible,” that qualified.

Walters’ new specs don’t require that the Constitution and Declaration of Independence be in the Bible. Why the fuck they even need to put a Bible in every public school classrooms is another can of worms, but at least the son of a bitch got cowed out of his Trump grift attempt. Baby steps.