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Related: About this forumPreacher, prophet, messiah: Trump cult takes on religious overtones at RNC - Alex Wagner - MSNBC
As Christian nationalism grows in strength and influence within the Republican Party, Donald Trump's cult of personality is shifting toward increasing religiosity with Trump as the central deity.
George Conway, president of the Anti-Psychopath PAC, Susan Glasser, staff writer at the New Yorker, and Tressie McMillan Cottom, columnist for the New York Times, discuss with Alex Wagner. - Aired on 07/19/2024.
czarjak
(12,186 posts)I like gods that get it right the first time.
Rhiannon12866
(217,657 posts)According to Mary Trump's book, his eldest sister approached their father full of apologies when she told him the man she planned to marry was Catholic and expected her to join the Church.
And he's obviously not familiar with being in church after watching him wandering around before George H.W. Bush's funeral while the other former presidents and First Ladies sat quietly. And then there was his order to gas the gathered protesters and church staff to make way for his photo-op holding a Bible upside down in front of the church across from the White House.
keithbvadu2
(39,249 posts)Political Christians are the public face of Christianity in America today.
Rhiannon12866
(217,657 posts)How can they support a convicted felon also convicted of business fraud and who attempted to overthrow the U.S. government as "leader of the Free World??"