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Tucker on the New Religion of Trump’s America and His Mockery of Jesus Christ

April 16, 2026

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The New Civic Religion of Trump's America

In the span of one week, Donald Trump—a famously irreligious man who once struggled to name a single book of the Bible—sent out a series of messages that amounted to something far stranger than political provocation. On Easter Sunday, he tweeted about bombing Iranian civilian infrastructure, used the F-word, and mocked Islam with "Praise Allah." A week later, he attacked the Pope personally, then posted a meme of himself dressed as Jesus healing a soldier—with a demon added over his own head. When asked about it, he said yes he sent it, then later said no he didn't. The episode was dismissed as another online kerfuffle, but Tucker Carlson argues it reveals something deeper: the actual religion of the United States government.

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  • 1 Tucker on the New Religion of Trump’s America and His Mockery of Jesus Christ
  • 2 (00:31) **Trump's Unprecedented Week of Religious Provocation** - The famously irreligious Donald Trump weighed in on faith and theology in a disruptive, hard-to-understand public way over one week
  • 3 (05:28) **What the Memes Actually Mean: Mockery, Not Theology** - These aren't clumsy memes but iconography sending a deliberate statement about faith — and it's mockery of Christianity
  • 4 (11:00) **Is This the Behavior of a Christian Nation?** - Republican leaders shrugged off the mockery of Jesus, and the Speaker of the House joined in attacking the Pope, raising the question of what religion actually governs America
  • 5 (15:29) **The Real Religion of the US Government: Israelism** - There is no secular government; every government has a motivating religious impulse, and America's civic religion is the defense of Israel
  • 6 (22:13) **The Attack on Catholicism as the New Litmus Test** - Lindsey Graham and Patrick Bet-David openly slander Catholics as Nazis and anti-Semites, a break that would have been politically impossible a year ago
  • 7 (29:59) **Where Trump Shows Sincere Reverence** - Trump mocks Jesus freely but shows genuine reverence for Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, whose followers consider him the Messiah

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America’s new civic religion is Israelism, Christianity without the New Testament, and it’s the most unforgiving faith of all. 


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