'God chose Trump': president reads Scripture at MAGA Bible marathon
About this episode
Max Blumenthal reports on a Bible-reading marathon featuring Donald Trump and evangelical supporters.
By Max Blumenthal Max Blumenthal gained entrance to a gathering of evangelical Christian Trump supporters called America Reads The Bible. Hosted at hosted at Washington DC's Museum of Bible, the week-long Bible-reading marathon featured members of Congress, cabinet secretaries and pastors reciting carefully curated sections of scripture before what's left of the MAGA faithful. Despite not identifying as a Christian and his notorious past and present as a sinner, Trump was the star of the show, reading from Chronicles 7:11.Blumenthal asked participants about the significance of Trump's reading, and whether they believed he was a divine instrument. He also probed their views about everything from the Iran war to Israel's destruction of Christian communities in southern Lebanon. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thegrayzone.substack.com/subscribe
People in this episode
Host: Max Blumenthal
Topics covered
- evangelical Christianity
- Trump supporters
- Bible reading
- political commentary
- religion and politics
- MAGA movement
Keywords
- Trump
- Bible
- evangelical
- MAGA
- politics
- Christianity
- scripture
- Iran war
- Israel
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Museum of Bible, America Reads The Bible
Books & works: Chronicles 7:11
Places: Washington DC
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