Why the Antichrist is back
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Why are people speculating that Trump could be the Antichrist?
Remember back in April when President Trump posted that meme depicting himself as Jesus and everyone was like, maybe he's the Antichrist. We have some major news right now. Mac is now declaring Trump the Antichrist.
Whenever I see Donald Trump, spiritually, the Holy Spirit always shows me that he is filled with the spirit of the Antichrist.
I've been saying since Trump got elected, he's definitely the Antichrist. Guys, guys. You've been talking on your show about whether Trump is the Antichrist.
I have not said that.
Yes, he had. America, 250 years of going from zero to 100 in no time flat. As we wade through a new round of is he or isn't he the Antichrist, we are reminded that the U.S. has a long history of declarations and accusations and just asking questions re the beast. Today on Today Explained from Fox, we amble through that history and ask, what are we doing, USA?
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Christian, many people have been asking, and so I will ask you, is President Donald John Trump the Antichrist? Yeah, imagine I have the scoop. It was revealed to me. And upon this new rock, I'm establishing a new church. Vox political correspondent Christian Paz, he's been writing about the Antichrist. Is Donald Trump the Antichrist? I can't say that. But if you were to look to certain... corners of the internet and of social media and of digital media, people who used to support Donald Trump, have been starting to wonder that. It's coming up more and more, for sure. Yeah, it's coming up more and more, and I am old enough to remember a time when we did not, in American life, talk very much about the Antichrist at all.
But the past maybe, I don't know, six months to two years, we do hear quite a bit about the Dark Lord. Why are we hearing so much about the Antichrist now? I think there's both eternal reasons and specific to the 2020s. In general, right now, the vibe among a lot of people who believe that the Antichrist isn't a real person or a thing to come in the future before the second coming of Christ feel that things are bad, that the economy is bad, that there's wars around us, that we've lived through life-changing public health crises, pandemics. The signs of plague, pestilence, war, destruction, and political transformations and changes are are aligning, and then you get added on top of that, that these wars are specifically happening in the Middle East, that there have been threats to the state of Israel, which is a key part to anti-Christ narratives, and that maybe there's a sense of betrayal or, you know, promises not being kept or being misled.
What historical context influences the Antichrist narrative in American politics?
And that specifically gets to some of what these far-right Trump critics are saying, that perhaps they have been led astray by a false prophet, essentially. You said false prophet. I always think of the devil. That's not quite right. What is the Antichrist exactly? Yeah. So the term Antichrist only pops up about five times in the Bible. And it's never really in the context of an individual. It's usually a sense that Antichrist is a term to describe a spirit person, people, movement that try to convince you to worship God differently than the way that Jesus established Christ. But then this gets merged with a bunch of other mentions specifically across, you know, the Old and New Testament of figures like in the New Testament, the Apostle Paul writes about a man of lawlessness in one of his letters to the Thessalonians, somebody who would establish themselves and claim that they are God, that they are somebody to be worshipped.
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