MAGA faithful turn on Trump: 'There’s a decent chance he’s the antichrist'

Since launching war against Iran at the end of February, there has been a notable uptick in the extreme nature of President Donald Trump’s words and actions, from threatening that “a whole civilization will die tonight” to accusing the Pope of being “WEAK on Crime.” For many, this has raised questions about Trump’s mental health. Others, however, have begun to see something more sinister in his behavior. The president, they suspect, may be the antichrist.

Discussion of Trump’s possible unholiness began in earnest on Sunday following an upswing in the president’s rhetoric against the Vatican. Conflict flared between the White House and that papacy following early April reports that representatives of the administration had made threatening remarks suggesting that armed action could be taken against the Pope were he not to support Trump’s military endeavors. While that meeting took place in January, its public revelation coincided with the Pope speaking out against “those who wage war” in a thinly veiled criticism of the strikes on Iran two months later.

Trump didn’t like that one bit, and fired back on Sunday with a lengthy Truth Social post in which he railed against the Pope for being “terrible on Foreign Policy” and “Weak on Nuclear Weapons.” He implied that the Pope is pro-murder, rambled about his 2024 electoral win and the stock market and suggested that “Leo should get his act together as Pope” and “stop catering to the Radical Left.”

The president then posted an AI-generated image of himself as Jesus, and for Christian onlookers, that’s when all hell broke loose.

“It’s more than blasphemy. It’s an Antichrist spirit,” posted former Representative and Trump ally Marjorie Taylor Greene.

“In 18 months I went from hesitantly voting for Trump to thinking there’s a decent chance he’s the antichrist,” declared Clint Russell, host of the right-wing Liberty Lockdown podcast.

“I genuinely believe Trump is currently demon possessed,” far-right Texas pastor Joel Webbon asserted before hosting a livestream where he and others debated a simple question: “Is Donald Trump the Anti-Christ?”

It wasn’t just Trump’s higher-profile supporters making such accusations. In the comments beneath his Trump Social post, scores of his followers lambasted the president’s “sacrilegious” behavior, ramping up the backlash to the point that he deleted the post on Monday morning.

All of this comes days after far-right commentator Tucker Carlson—who has been a vocal critic of the war on Iran and has questioned Trump’s mental health—raised similarly spiritual concerns about the president’s potential dark motivations.

“Is it possible what you’re watching,” wondered Carlson, “is a very stealthy yet incredibly effective attack on what, from a Christian perspective, is the true faith: belief in Jesus? Is it possible that the president sees this in bigger terms? Sees this as the fulfillment of something? An elevation of some higher office beyond President of the United States?”