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Trump: Christ’s Answer to American Politics?

Donald Trump has since he first launched himself into serious politics in 2016 received widespread support from a large section of the American Church. The news media has often positioned Evangelicals as the most obvious of his supporters, although in general, he has enjoyed strong backing from religious Americans, including white mainline Protestants and white Catholics. In the runup to the 2020 US elections, it was reported that his support within the religious in America was shrinking but there was certainly enough to spawn the barrage of prophecies and visions shared across social media indicating divine support for his campaign. A prayer session by his spiritual adviser Pastor Paula White-Cain for instance calling for angelic support from Africa for his foundering campaign at the time went viral globally. Such has been the man’s enigmatic charisma that a procession was even organized by locals in Nigeria for him during the campaign period, despite the widely disseminated report th...