Hey, everybody, let’s talk about #RickPerry and his comments on Fox News that Trump was chosen by God to be president.
First, a reminder that Perry launched his ill-fated 2012 presidential bid with a prayer rally backed by a bunch of dominionist “prophets” and “apostles” who are now in Trump’s orbit rightwingwatch.org/post/rick-perr…
Perry’s “The Response” rally was one place (not the first) where dominionists were “mainstreamed.” New Apostolic Reformation leaders endorsed and shared stage w/ religious right leaders like James Dobson, Don Wildmon and Tony Perkins rightwingwatch.org/post/conservat…
Dominionists and Christian nationalists have had no trouble getting high-level Republicans, including Trump, to take part in their events. This prayer rally happened in Cleveland on the eve of the 2016 GOP convention rightwingwatch.org/post/being-feb…
Perry’s language about God using imperfect people is part of an ongoing push started during the campaign by Trump’s “amen” corner of prosperity preachers and dominionists. They claim Trump was anointed by God rightwingwatch.org/post/trump-chr…
Frank Amedia, onetime Trump campaign adviser, even says Trump was sent to set the stage for Christ’s return to earth rightwingwatch.org/post/trump-chr…
Amedia says God told him on election night 2016 to create POTUS Shield, a network of Trump-supporting prophets and apostles that prays for God to create more Supreme Court vacancies for Trump to fill rightwingwatch.org/report/potus-s…
Many evangelical leaders see Trump’s upset victory in 2016 as a result of divine intervention to give the US another chance to repent and “return to God.” Evangelical pollster George Barna told 2017 Values Voter Summit, “God did a miracle for us” rightwingwatch.org/post/evangelic…
Trump earned conservative evangelical loyalty by making good on his promise to religious right leaders: put me in the White House and I’ll give you the Supreme Court of your dreams
But the unshakable loyalty of evangelical voters to Trump also reflects the nonstop messaging from conservative Christian leaders and media that Trump was chosen by God and is carrying out a divine mission.
At a rally on the eve of last year’s midterm elections, members of POTUS Shield’s council “deputized” a group of Trump administration officials and prayed they would “move in a new realm of authority, power, prophetic insight” rightwingwatch.org/post/administr…
Even Trump’s hotel in DC has taken on spiritual significance for his dominionist supporters, who have used it to launch spiritual warfare against Trump’s opponents and call down “angel armies” against his “deep state” enemies rightwingwatch.org/post/prophets-…
Rick Perry says he gave Trump a one-pager on biblical kings who were used by God. Trump has people like Perry and Paula White telling him constantly that he was put in office by God and is carrying out a divine mission. Gasoline on a narcissistic fire. salon.com/2019/08/22/eva…
The flip side of the Trump-is-God’s-anointed message is that Trump’s opponents are enemies of God, agents of Satan, and demonic forces to be resisted in spiritual warfare. And we wonder about the intensity of our political divisions. rightwingwatch.org/post/doing-the…
POTUS Shield founder Frank Amedia said just a few days ago that opposition to Trump is spiritual warfare being waged by demonic forces that want to “prevent the return of Christ.” rightwingwatch.org/post/frank-ame…
