Trump turns to the prosperity gospel for fundraising efforts

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Trump turns to the prosperity gospel for fundraising efforts
Trump is telling his MAGA followers that giving him money is a divine act that will “save America”

By Chauncey DeVega
Senior Writer
Published October 9, 2025 6:45AM (EDT)


(Salon) Nine months into his second term, President Donald Trump sees himself as divinely chosen, a preacher for the White Christian church of MAGA. But a preacher without a flock is powerless. Polls show that many Americans see Trump and his far-right movement in prophetic, even messianic terms.

In his personal and public life, Trump violates almost every tenet of the Christian faith. But for the Christian right, this is mostly an inconvenient fact that can be explained away by the belief that God uses flawed men to fulfill his will.

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In a fundraising email sent last week, he added a new dimension to his sermon: Casting the MAGA cause as divine work, while promising that those who donate will receive God’s blessings.

“Since the day I returned to the White House,” Trump wrote, “I have felt the mighty hand of God guiding this movement. His Word reminds us: ‘If God is for us, who can be against us?’ The enemies of freedom thought they could break us with lies, with courts, with endless persecution — but they were WRONG. Our strength does not come from man. It comes from the LORD. Always has. Always will.”

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But Trump is different. His appeal is steeped in Christian nationalism, promising that “the fight to restore America’s foundation of FAITH, FAMILY, and FREEDOM is just beginning,” and requesting that, “if you can afford it, chip in and show the Radical Left that we will NEVER surrender…we’ll RESTORE the values that made America GREAT.”

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Matthew Taylor, author of “The Violent Take it by Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy,” explained that “a new breed of far-right evangelical leaders” is shifting “the whole tone and tenor of American evangelical discourse about politics further to the right and into overt opposition to religious pluralism and democracy.” ..............(more)

https://www.salon.com/2025/10/09/trump-turns-to-the-prosperity-gospel-for-fundraising-efforts/