Former president and 2024 Republican front runner Donald Trump created a stir last week by sharing a fan-made video proclaiming why “God Made Trump.” After the 45th president shared the video on Truth Social, it went viral on other social media platforms.
For almost three minutes, the video lists reasons God created Donald Trump, from fixing the country and fighting Marxists to calling out “fake news” and being “willing to drill.” The narrator paints a Messiah-like image of Trump, saying the former president “cares for the flock” and is “a shepherd to mankind who won’t ever leave or forsake them.”
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Trump shared the video on Jan. 5, the same day President Biden told an audience, “Donald Trump’s campaign is about him, not America, not you.”
Donald Trump Portrayed as God’s Chosen Caretaker
The video, created by the Dilley 300 Meme Team, begins with images of the planet Earth and a childhood photo of Trump. “And on June 14, 1946, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, ‘I need a caretaker,’” begins the voiceover. “So God gave us Trump.”
It continues, “God said, ‘I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, fix this country, work all day, fight the Marxists, eat supper, then go to the Oval Office and stay past midnight at a meeting of the heads of state.’ So God made Trump.”
Later in the video, God is quoted as saying, “I need the most diligent worker to follow the path and remain strong in faith and know the belief of God and country.”
Reaction to the video, which isn’t directly affiliated with Trump’s campaign, was swift. Some commenters said the message is blasphemous. Others pointed to exaggerations or mistruths; for example, the video claims Trump finishes “a hard week’s work by attending church on Sunday.” Calling the video “abhorrent,” someone wrote, “God cannot be mocked…Donald Trump is not Jesus Christ.”
Ron Filipkowski, editor-in-chief of MeidasTouch.com, commented, “This tracks the messaging that comes from his rally stages from pastors – that God has chosen Trump to battle the Deep State. This is also a ripoff of the [‘God Made a Fighter’] ad Casey Desantis made for Ron’s reelection campaign. This also says Trump goes to church on Sundays when he never goes.”
Former Vice President Mike Pence, an evangelical Christian, joked last year that classified documents found at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence were “actually stuck in the president’s Bible, which proves he had absolutely no idea they were there.”
