'God chose Trump': president reads Scripture at MAGA Bible marathon

'God chose Trump': president reads Scripture at MAGA Bible marathon

From Max Blumenthal by The Grayzone

April 22, 2026 · 6 min

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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