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Chapter 1: 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...
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Chapter 2: 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.
And then that's also connected to the book of Revelation, you know, the infamous apocalyptic biblical scripture that writes about visions of what comes before Christ's second coming, right? It's the end of the world narrative.
And then there are specific references to a seven-headed beast coming out of the sea, to another beast that walks on land, that these beasts are empowered by the dragon, which is understood to be Satan. And there's a lot of specific detail there about these beasts influencing people, influencing the faithful, taking over world governments, taking command of armies.
And all of these little mentions, including some mentions in the Old Testament, gets merged into the figure of the Antichrist, someone who will literally come before Christ returns, before we all get raptured or judged.
Yeah.
So who are the people talking about the Antichrist, concerned with the Antichrist right now? You have voices like Marjorie Taylor Greene, the former congresswoman from Georgia, who has said on social media that Donald Trump carries the spirit of the Antichrist. It's more than blasphemy. It's an antichrist spirit. You have loud far-right voices, whether that's Nick Fuentes.
Now Trump compares himself to Jesus Christ and declared war on the church. He is an antichrist in league with Israel. Tucker Carlson. Here's a leader who's mocking the gods of his ancestors. mocking the God of gods and exalting himself above them. Could this be the Antichrist? Well, who knows?
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Chapter 3: What are the signs that Americans historically associate with the Antichrist?
Yet that support has dropped a bit. It's not as high as it was a year ago. His support, among other denominations, has dropped as well. But that evangelical slippage is significant. It is at least statistically significant. Whether that means that you'll see even more opposition on religious grounds to Trump, I'm not sure about that.
I think what will be more interesting is seeing who he ends up trying to set up as his successor, if it is J.D. Vance or if it is Marco Rubio or if it's somebody we don't know about. They all have very different bases of power and support. If you're thinking about religious denominations, traditionally Marco Rubio has had more of the trust of evangelical Christians than maybe J.D. Vance has.
And now J.D. Vance is trying to carve out this, right, trad Catholic kind of base of support. I think that's why religion is going to continue to be such a central storyline in who succeeds Donald Trump and what we see in 2028. That was Vox's Christian pause. Coming up, a brief history of the Antichrist in American politics.
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