How Easter Turned Into Blasphemy at The White House

Yesterday, Trump posted an meme of himself created by someone else.  It disturbed a lot of his regular supporters.  It appeared that the meme was comparing Trump to Jesus Christ, reaching down to heal a person as he was clothed in robes.  When pressed Trump said, “I posted it because I thought it was me being a doctor from the Red Cross, which we support.”  That’s a lie.  Trump has since deleted the post but you can find it all over social media if you want to see it.

We need to pray for Trump like never before.  We are quite concerned that his spiritual head, Paula White, is speaking lies to him.  She is a wolf dressed up as a “pastor”.  I think we all know Trump has an ego the size of a blimp and if she is whispering lies from the Evil One into his ear it’s quite possible that the blimp could be inflated past a sustainable level.

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On Easter Sunday, when Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ, Donald Trump posted the following message on his Truth Social: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP.”

On Christianity’s highest holy day, we saw a president who claims to be Christian sending a message full of profanity and describing an attack on civilian infrastructure that would bring massive suffering and even death to ordinary people, while mocking the religion of Islam.

The suggestion of such actions carries weight. To target infrastructure civilians depend on is widely understood by military leaders and legal experts as a war crime. Whether or not such threats are carried out, they have an impact on any future deal conversations.

Then, at a White House Easter lunch service, we witnessed profound blasphemy. Religious leaders gathered around Trump, and a sacred moment that could have brought peace and truth-telling was misused, and religion was abused.

Paula White, who heads the White House Faith Office, compared Donald Trump to Jesus Christ, calling him the “greatest champion of faith that we’ve ever seen in a president.” She made this parallel repeatedly in her remarks, comparing Trump’s alleged suffering to that of Jesus, saying that no one had paid a price like he had, that he had been falsely accused, and that, like Jesus, he had risen into victory. She even said that because of the resurrection, God’s victory was now being worked out through Trump in all he does. I guess that includes war crimes?

Evangelist Franklin Graham followed, framing the war against Iran as righteous and invoking Scripture to justify violence, asking for God’s protection over the military and for freedom for those he described as oppressed. After Graham, Ralph Reed, founder of the right-wing Faith and Freedom Coalition, prayed that God had spared Trump’s life for this presidential purpose, framing his leadership as divinely preserved and asking for wisdom, guidance and victory in his battles.

Southern Baptist pastor Robert Jeffress then described the presidency as part of God’s plan, casting the ongoing conflict as a spiritual struggle between light and darkness and praying that Trump would be empowered to act decisively in the battles, especially at Easter, a day meant to honor resurrection, hope and the triumph of life over death.

The whole service transformed a sacred moment of reflection into a celebration of war, power and Trump. We heard once more the claim that Trump is bringing religion back to America, followed by Trump’s many grievances about immigrants, elections, cultural threats and war.

There was no talk about care for “the least of these,” whom Jesus asked his followers to defend and care for in Matthew 25. In fact, the poor and vulnerable, including “the stranger” have been deliberately targeted by Trump, with no concerns expressed by his handpicked religious leaders. And in the face of war and threats of war crimes, these court chaplains ignored the most fundamental teaching of Jesus: “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.” https://religionnews.com/2026/04/10/how-easter-turned-to-blasphemy-at-the-white-house/