Did God personally make Donald J. Trump and present him as a gift to Americans? A group of Trump supporters called the “Dilley Meme Team” created a video making the case. The video quickly made its way across the MAGA-net, and was shared by the former president, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Trump’s spiritual adviser Paula White-Cain.
“On June 14, 1946, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, ‘I need a caretaker.’ So God gave us Trump,” the narrator says. “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 up past midnight at a meeting of the heads of state.’ So God made Trump.”
It’s a bizarre video — even by Trumpian social media standards. It plays off Paul Harvey’s 1978 “God made a farmer” speech, and uses what sounds like Harvey’s voice (although Harvey died in 2009). Notably, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis used similar themes and cadences in an ad during his 2022 re-election campaign.
This new “God Made Trump” video is eerily messianic, calling Trump “a shepherd to mankind.” It’s also laughable, claiming Trump “finish[es] a hard week’s work by attending church on Sunday.” Trump never joined a church in Washington, D.C., and was only observed attending services a handful of times as president.
With the Iowa caucuses just days away, Trump is paying special attention to conservative Christians.
Out of context, I would have thought the ad was satire. With the Iowa caucuses just days away, Trump is paying special attention to conservative Christians. White evangelicals have historically been a key Iowa voting bloc, and evangelical endorsements carry considerable weight. DeSantis has picked up several of these important endorsements ahead of Monday, but Trump still commands the majority of the evangelical vote.
The core message of the “God Made Trump” video is true, at least as far as Christian theology…
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