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God's Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters
Unholy: Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump

The Truth About Trump’s Evangelical Support
Evangelicals have successfully promoted a depoliticized vision of their movement. Its fundamental principles have plenty in common with Trump.
— “Although he [ Billy Sunday ] claimed to be a common man from the “corn rows of Iowa,” he gained the backing of wealthy business leaders, including the Rockefellers. They loved how he blended theology, patriotism, and a defense of Gilded Age capitalism.
Sunday demanded that Americans make the United States a Christian nation, an effort that remains central to evangelicalism.... To Sunday and his followers, this meant reducing immigration, maintaining Jim Crow segregation, and pushing back against the women’s movement.”

The 64 most memorable lines from Donald Trump’s Alabama speech September 23, 2017
— Enough said

Anointed Blasphemy

Trump’s most hard-core supporters really think he was sent by God. Here’s proof
— the only Anointed of God is His Mashiach (Messiah, Christos, Christ), Jesus of Nazareth the King of kings and Lord of lords

Evangelicals lay hands on Donald Trump October 1, 2015

Comparing Trump to Jesus, and why some evangelicals believe Trump is God’s chosen one December 18, 2019

Half of evangelicals believe Trump is anointed by God May 20, 2020
—“...Trump is not just the most irreligious president in modern history. His entire worldview makes a mockery of core Christian values like humility and empathy and care for the poor.”

The Christian Prophets Who Say Trump Is Coming Again Feb 18, 2021

Do Evangelicals Think Trump Is Jesus? May 8, 2023

Mammon Worship

Why we should never forget the monstrosity that was Donald Trump's gold apartment
No expense was spared in this marble and 24-carat gold visual overload

Inside Donald Trump's $100 million penthouse: Gold-rimmed cups, a toy personalized Mercedes for his 10-year-old son, a $15,000 book and some VERY risqué statues

On the Diminution of Angels

Behind Donald Trump’s unholy obsession with French cherubs
— Cherubs (a symbol of power) aplenty like at Versailles, as well as lots of marble, gold, gilding, and Classical style period furnishings and power paintings

Donald Trump’s 66th Floor Penthouse Exposes His Idol ‘Sun God’ Apollo, Son of Zeus
— “Classical art dominates here with a bronze of Eros and Psyche, one of the great love Greek love stories, and Apollo led by Aurora – the Greek goddess of the dawn, suggesting Trump sees himself the mold of Apollo, Zeus’s son, and one of the most powerful of the gods.”

Conman

Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
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The GOP Is Herschel Walker — A clarifying glimpse into the values of the Party of Trump