Rick Wilson wrote this brilliant post on his blog.
He nailed a question that has worried me. I had thought it was odd that the same Christian nationalists who worship Trump insist on posting the Ten Commamdments in every classroom. Have they ever read those Ten Commandments, any version of them? The first commandment is to recognize God as the only Lord and to put no other god before the real one. (“I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt have no other god before me.”) No worshipping false gods, idols, or golden calves.
Nonetheless, these same supposedly devout “Christians” worship Trump and obey his every command. They ignore his many breaches of the Ten Commandments as well as the Constitution because he is their god.
Trump has a long and well-documented history as a con man with multiple bankruptcies and thousands of lawsuits. Creating his MAGA cult to worship him, to believe his empty promises, is the greatest con of all. And the most profitable! Since he was inaugurated, he and his sons have grown richer by billions of dollars. Not millions. Billions.
Rick Wilson, former Republican insider, offers “A Reading from the Book of Donald.”

Donald 3:28-34
- And it came to pass in the year of the Tariff, whilst war raged across the lands of Elam, that the people of all the tribes of MAGA gathered upon the fairway on the Plain of Doral; and the priests came down from among them, both evangelical and influencers, with oil, with incense, and with selfie sticks and cameras.
- And they said unto the multitude, “Bring forth thy pelf and thy gold, clicking here, patriots, that we may overlay it; for behold, we have made thee a god of fourteen cubits, that the great orange LORD may know whom thou servest.”
- “Thou shalt make unto thyself a graven image; yea, the taller the better, and the gilding shall be thick, and the thinness of the frame shall show the orange LORD’s svelte and manly figure to best advantage.”
- And they said to the tribes of MAGA, “Thou shalt bow down before it, and serve it, and thou shalt photograph thyself beside it; for the patron thy god is a jealous patron, and exceedingly photogenic.”
- “As for the commandment of old which said ‘Thou shalt have no other gods before me,’ behold, we have CAST DOWN the Hebrew God; and VERILY we worship the One Orange God at Temple of the Reality Star, for it pleases the Donald, and the Donald’s pleasure is the law.”
- And the priests laid their hands upon the statue, and pronounced it good; and the people cried, ‘This is thy God, O MAGA, who delivered the billionaires from taxes, who clothed you in the red hats sacred to his worship, who didst provide you with the sacred crypto of his name, and who gave unto you his Tweets.”
- And Moses, hearing of it, came down from the mount in haste, with tablets in his hand; but the Secret Service would not admit him at the gate, for his name was not on the list and he had not offered either his donations or his worship.

IT IS MISTAKEN to think that MAGA folk worship Trump as a god. Speaking for the MAGA folk, Christian Nationalist pastor Doug Wilson, Pete Hegseth’s pastor, says that Trump “is an ungodly man…a carnal…blasphemous man” who is “toxic”.
But, Wilson goes on to say that he supports Trump because “America has cancer. Trump is toxic, and I think he’s killing the cancer faster than he’s killing the rest of us.”
AND THAT IS WHY THE MAGA MINIONS continue to support Trump, even though he’s killing them with high prices for food, housing, fuel, and by cutting medical care. THEY SEE TRUMP AS AN EVIL BEING SENT BY GOD TO DESTROY EVIL AND TO SAVE AMERICA from what they see as the cancer of “do your own thing” liberalism.
If what Trump does on his mission from God harms them, that’s OK with MAGA folk because they are martyrs for the cause, and Trump with all his moral faults and failures is the savior of our nation.
Trump, the liar, the cheat, the sexual predator, is seen by MAGA folk as the evil of this world personified and turned against itself to cleanse our nation.
So, no, MAGA doesn’t worship Trump. They know exactly what he is, and they relish in seeing Evil destroying Evil.
No amount of condemnation of Trump by liberals and no amount of revealing his vile decadence is going to change anything with MAGA because they already know all that about him.
MOREOVER — There are a great many non-Maga moderate people who, while they despise Trump, are pleased to see him attacking what they hold as things that undermine the traditional social values glue that keeps a society whole. They might not be religious people, but they recognize that even without religion the Ten Commandments and biblical admonitions against homosexuality and other aberrational behavior represent a shared code of norms that are necessary to stabilize and bind together a nation’s societal structure, as did the Code of Hammurabi for ancient civilizations.
Don’t go off on a tangent of misunderstanding what’s actually happening in America with the MAGA movement. Take time to look at what’s going on behind the headlines and social media posts. There is the distinct possibility that the MAGA view of Trump as Evil fighting Evil, resulting in restoration of essential stabilizing social norms has a great deal of truth to it.
But the very thought of that possibility of Trump’s role triggers a knee-jerk oppositional reaction in the minds of many “liberal” people and makes them unable to even consider it.
If the thought of that possibility triggers that kind of opposition knee-jerk reaction in you, you have to ask yourself if you are really as open-minded as you think you are — or are you just a “liberal” reflection of conservative MAGAism?
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Nah, I despise him because he is a con man who has lied and bragged all his life. He somehow managed to persuade angry people that he would save them. All he does is sel-enrichment. He doesn’t care about anyone but himself and his immediate family.
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MAGA folks know all that about Trump. They know he’s a scumbag, but they support him anyway because he is attacking the things and people whom they see as causing moral decay in America. Whether or not you agree with them is utterly irrelevant to them. They see everything and everyone through their tunnel-vision and are impervious to contrary facts.
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YUP. Trump worships Trump. And Mammon. That’s it. His devotees strive to emulate this.
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The MAGA people I know, both some former friends and family members, see him as a savior. They do not see him as evil battling evil. They believe every word he says. They believe him when he says gas prices are down. They believe him when he says affordability is a democratic hoax. They believed him when he says only he can fix the failing nation. They are true MAGA’s. And no amount of provable facts can change their minds.
I have Republican friends and they know he is a scumbag, but they have benefited from his fiscal policies. They support him for what he has done for their personal wealth.
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If your family or friends own stocks, they have enjoyed a great rise in the stock market.
If they don’t care about what they pay at the gas tank, they are either dumb or enjoying the rise in the stock market.
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Diane,
i can not agree more. Unlike some articulate, well-informed people that comment on your site, I have a very difficult time when it comes to speaking to their support. I avoid it and have pretty much cut all those people out of my life, which is not recommended by therapists, etc. But I can not come up with the language to speak to their support, I am outraged by the hypocrisy. They were the first ones to blame Biden when gas prices went up in 2023. I havent heard a word about the prices now, even though they are highernow than ever.
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