Idolatry
Comment
Most of this is found in the “Behavioral Issues” section under “Ego, Idolatry & Coddling”
2019 “The Chosen One”
2019-08-21 Trump referred to himself as “the chosen one”.
2021
2021-01-06 People carried “Jesus is my Savior – Trump is my President” signs, even during the J6 riots.
[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/07/christian-nationalists-embrace-trump-as-their-savior-will-they-be-his](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/07/christian-nationalists-embrace-trump-as-their-savior-will-they-be-his
2024
2024-04-11 Pastors respond after Trump claimed Christianity is under attack. In this video, interviewees likened Trump to Jesus Christ.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqmcPTi0N7Q&list=WL&index=2
2025 February
2025-02-19 The White House posted an AI-generated image of Trump wearing a crown captioned “Long Live the King.”
https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1892295984928993698
2025-02-26 Trump posted an AI-generated Gaza resort video featuring himself as a golden idol.
2025 May
2025-05-02 Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself as the Pope.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-ai-generated-photo-pope-vatican/
https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1918502592335724809
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114441543826801216
2025-05-28 Trump posted “He’s on a mission from God & nothing can stop what is coming.”
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114588777076099501
2026 March
2026-03-09 Trump reposted a YouTube video “Kim Clement prophesying about Donald Trump, 2007”. The video features Kim Clement saying, “This that shall take place shall be the most unusual thing, a transfiguration, a going into the marketplace, if you wish, into the news media – where Time Magazine will have no choice but to say what I want them to say, Newsweek, what I want to say, The View, what I want to say! Trump shall become a trumpet, says the Lord. Trump shall become a trumpet. I will raise up the Trump to become a trumpet and Bill Gates to open up the gate of a financial realm for the church, says the Lord.” The recording was from April 4, 2007 and recorded in Redding, California and goes on to refer to Trump as the gatekeeper. Another video is appended to the first one from an event on February 10, 2007 in Scottsdale, Arizona.
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/i-will-raise-up-the-trump-trump-promotes-wild-2007-prophesy/
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116200371638821370
2026-03-31 Trump shared images of a towering 50-story glass skyscraper he wants for his presidential library. It has a golden escalator and the lobby will feature the Saudi jet he was gifted, a theater featuring a gold statue of himself, his “walk of fame”, and other things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHtNpXBOj6k&list=WL&index=4
https://newrepublic.com/post/208455/donald-trump-presidential-library-make-money-hotel
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/trump-library-money-power-jet/686643/
2026 April
2026-04-01 During the White House Easter luncheon, Trump’s spiritual adviser Paula White likened Trump to Jesus.
https://baptistnews.com/article/at-white-house-trump-lauded-as-suffering-king-like-jesus/
https://www.salon.com/2026/04/05/paula-white-likens-trumps-troubles-to-jesus-christ-at-easter-lunch/
https://www.ms.now/opinion/paula-white-sparks-maga-backlash-after-comparing-trump-to-jesus
https://premierchristian.news/us/news/article/trump-compared-to-jesus-at-white-house-prayers
https://x.com/metzgov/status/2039462014968316313
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkTSObD6VxU&list=WL&index=1&t=267s
2026-04-01 Trump’s pastor Franklin Graham weaponized the book of Esther during a Presidential prayer at the White House, “Father, you tell us in the book of Esther that the Persians, the Iranians, were wanting to kill every Jew, woman, child, and do it all in one day”. He went on to politicize faith, calling Iranians the “wicked regime”, accused Iran of wanting to kill all Jews, compared Trump to Queen Esther, and claimed that Trump was “raised up for such a time as this”. This was during the war in Iran started by the U.S. and Israel, and during the same Easter prayer breakfast when Paula White compared Trump to Jesus. Fact-check: the villain in the book of Esther was not the Persians. Giving politics a biblical narrative to gain power and control is probably a sin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an9D8G1BtjY&list=WL&index=3
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9lmpBqaiGtI
2026-04-12 Trump posted – then deleted – an AI image of himself as Jesus Christ. After backlash, he claimed it was a picture of himself as a doctor healing people.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/13/trump-jesus-truth-social-pope-leo.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-faces-backlash-over-post-144400174.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c17v8y0z9z2o
https://abc7.com/post/trump-takes-down-image-social-media-depicted-jesus-like-figure/18880184/
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/13/politics/trump-jesus-post-pope-feud
SUB WALL https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/us/politics/trump-jesus-pope-leo-truth-social-post.html
SUB WALL https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/04/13/trump-jesus-religious-conservatives/
2026-04-16 During a briefing at the Pentagon Pete Hegseth attacked the media and compared them to the biblical Jewish group that opposed Jesus. He stated, “Our press are just like these Pharisees — not all of you, not all of you, but the legacy Trump-hating press. Your politically motivated animus for President Trump nearly completely blinds you from the brilliance of our American warriors,” he said. Hegseth added: “The Pharisees scrutinized every good act in order to find a violation, only looking for the negative. The hardened hearts of our press are calibrated only to impugn. I would ask you to open your eyes to the goodness, the historic success of our troops, the courage of this president…the relentlessly negative coverage you cannot resist peddling, despite the historic and important success of this effort and the success of our troops. Sometimes it’s hard to figure out what side some of you are actually on.”.
https://x.com/gretchencarlson/status/2044752887029358926?s=46&t=qjA9BAv6BhOCNlxoiZWFbw
2026-04-16 Pete Hegseth quoted a fake bible verse from the movie Pulp Fiction during a prayer, then compared Trump to Jesus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZdkRiTs_4w&list=WL&index=4
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5834822-hegseth-pulp-fiction-bible-reference/
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pete-hegseth-pulp-fiction-bible-verse_n_69e0e4d2e4b09c96f93e9391
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hegseth-bible-pulp-fiction/
2026-04-16 Right-wing podcaster Pastor Shane Vaugh said, “You can’t believe God raised up Pharaoh and not believe he raised up Trump”. This is the guy who in April 2024 said that Justice Jackson “talks monkey talk” and “belongs in the jungle”. He has said a lot, including “Satan had raised up Barack Hussein Gay Raised By Transgenders Obama”: “Any time the devil makes a move, Yahweh, God makes an even bigger move”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLxczPMXIHQ&list=WL&index=3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04u-lDJjreo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1e_ebV20hA
FROM 2022 https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-pastor-god-chose-save-america-1704371
FROM 2025 https://baptistnews.com/article/the-kingdom-of-god-is-not-about-gold/
2026-04-29 Trump branded U.S. passports with his image.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/29/politics/passports-trump-face-park-pass-currency-analysis
PAY WALL https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr5pn1ngerpo
2026 May
2026-05-10 A 22-foot golden statue of Donald Trump was erected at the Trump National Doral Miami. Pastor Mark Burns wrote on social media, “….Let me be clear: this is not a golden calf…”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNowrK16J0&list=WL&index=2
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/05/11/donald-trump-gold-statue/90029751007/
https://www.newsweek.com/pastor-defends-golden-trump-statue-from-biblical-backlash-11933490
https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/colbert-spots-sneaky-insult-hidden-on-trumps-golden-statue/
2026-05-17 During the religious rededication ceremony at the National Mall, podcaster Eric Mataxis said, “It’s hard to believe that it would take two centuries for the Lord to raise up a great man to bring that ballroom finally to stand where it needs to stand”.
https://people.com/maga-prayer-rally-speaker-says-god-chose-trump-to-build-ballroom-11978057
https://www.salon.com/2026/05/20/white-house-ballroom-is-turning-into-a-symbol-of-trumps-failures/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yBckt4T7xM&list=WL&index=5
2026 June
2026-05-19 Mark Meckler claimed Trump was touched or ordained by God.
https://www.anarchistfederation.net/mark-meckler-says-trump-is-a-man-transformed-by-god/
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/mark-meckler-says-trump-man-transformed-god
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s-oHAosovk&list=WL&index=7&t=91s