Does President Donald Trump have a God complex? His post depicting himself as the Lord Jesus Christ definitely raises some red flags. But if you’ve been paying attention, the bold-face blasphemy was not surprising.
Trump did the unthinkable this week in that he got internet atheists, of all people, to defend Christ. Dozens of posts responding to his image — from non-believers, mind you — described it as “outrage[ous],” “offensive,” “repugnant,” “shame[ful],” “disturbing,” and “blasphemy.” The Christian reaction was similar: Who does Trump think he is, and where does he get off depicting himself as Jesus Christ?
To answer that question, one must look at who has taken him under their spiritual wing. Trump’s spiritual advisor and mentor, and the person he chose to lead the new White House Faith Office, is controversial televangelist Paula White. And she’s controversial for good reason.
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In 2019, White claimed: “To say no to President Trump would be saying no to God.” That’s a real quote, suggesting either that Trump is God or that he’s a stand-in for Him. And just this year at an Easter event, she compared Trump to Jesus, saying that nobody has “paid the price” like Trump has, and that the president’s life represents a “familiar pattern” to what Christ “showed us.”
This is the person in Trump’s ear on matters of faith, and as a Christian, that’s concerning. Everybody knows that “egomaniac” would be an understatement for the guy with a golden penthouse, and this makes the president particularly vulnerable to spiritual seduction targeting his pride.
White is not a Bible-believing Christian, which is not shocking given that she calls herself a pastor despite the Bible explicitly reserving the roles of pastor (or bishop) and deacon for men. But from a spiritual perspective, she is something far more sinister than just a heretic.
She preaches the “prosperity gospel,” which ties physical, financial, and material blessings such as health and wealth to one’s faith, good deeds, or church donations. Of course, this false gospel would be lost on the writers of the Bible and the earliest Christians (as well as many modern believers) who were tortured and killed over their faith. Peter’s first epistle was literally written about Christian suffering, and Paul said in 2 Thessalonians 2:12 that “if we suffer” for Christ, “we shall also reign with him.”
And it gets worse. She has said that Christians should not try to convert Jews, but instead that they should learn from them, even though the Bible explicitly says in Acts 15:11 that Jews are saved the same way as Gentiles are (through Jesus Christ) and is full of examples of Jews being converted. The alternative to converting someone is watching them go to hell without doing anything to warn them. I can’t think of a more heinous thing one can do than to keep their mouth shut about the gospel. Speaking of false gospels, she once preached that if someone donates $1,444 to her ministry, they will receive “resurrection life.”
Is this false prophetess really someone we want Trump to be listening to? It’s no wonder why the president is so messed up in his beliefs that he believes he needs to earn his way into heaven by negotiating peace deals.
Trump said that if he gets to heaven, his peace agreement between Israel and Hamas will be one of the reasons why. But the Bible says that you cannot earn salvation, that God sees our righteousness as “filthy rags” (Isaiah 64:6), and that “none is righteous” (Romans 3:10) in God’s eyes. We have all sinned and come short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23), and the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23). The Bible says in Revelation 21 that all sinners go to hell, and in Galatians 2:21 it says that if you could be saved by doing good deeds, from helping old ladies cross the street to negotiating peace deals, then Jesus Christ died on the cross “in vain.”
Trump said there must be “a report card up there someplace,” and he’s right. But like everyone else besides Jesus, he has already failed, and the only path to redemption is to swap grades with the only one who passed. The only way into heaven, the only way to trade your sinful resume for Jesus’s perfect record and avoid the eternal damnation that we all earned, according to the Bible, is to forsake your own righteousness and receive Jesus’s righteousness by putting your faith in the blood of Christ alone to wash away all your sins.
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Trump is not God, and he certainly won’t get to heaven by negotiating peace, including peace between Christians and atheists unified in their outrage over his blasphemous Jesus post. But if Trump has a God complex, White bears a great deal of blame for it.
Christians in America should pray for Trump to accept the gospel and humble himself enough to ask Jesus to save him — and if he receives even a mustard seed of discernment, he’ll keep White as far away from the White House as possible.
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