1) In November 2024, the BBC published an article which should have been published earlier :'Anointed by God': The Christians who see Trump as their saviour"
Let's start at the beginning.
In the early 1990s, about 90% of US adults identified as Christians - a figure that had fallen to 64% earlier this decade, with a large increase in the number of those unaffiliated to any faith, according to data from Pew Research Center.
Trump was Building a "clientele", group by group
“Trump’s message to the Christians was: ‘I know you're in decline, I know your numbers are waning. I know your children and grandchildren aren't affiliated with your Churches anymore, but if you elect me, I'm going to restore power to the Christian Churches”,’
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Not all Christians in the US were won over, however.
For some, their faith has guided them to precisely the opposite impression of Trump.
2) Trump's message was especially appealing to the televangelist cons who built huge empires on sex and lies.
Remember Jim Bakker, who with his wife created a fortune off of his faithful fanbase*
"The religious con man began his journey to televangelist infamy as a co-host on a small Christian television program known as the The PTL Club. That acronym reportedly stands for “Praise The Lord” or “People That Love,” depending on who you ask. It first aired in the 1970s under a small North Carolina station owned by media mogul Ted Turner, who would later found CNN.
Bakker hosted the program with his then-wife, the late Tammy Faye Bakker. As the program gained popularity, the Bakkers’ influence grew in kind. They created a multimillion-dollar Christian cable TV enterprise with 2,000 employees. At its peak, PTL raked in more than $100 million a year.
The couple even built a Christian-themed amusement park named Heritage U.S.A., which drew six million visitors annually. One devout follower described the site as “holy ground.”
According to court documents, prosecutors alleged that the con man also sold “lifetime partnership” vacation plans to his PLT viewers, where they were offered once-a-year vacations to Heritage U.S.A. for the rest of their lives. The catch was that they had to cough up $1,000. His followers dug into their pockets and contributed a total of $158 million over three years."
Keep reading and meet him and some others cons, all invoking Jesus..
3) Trump sees has embraced the circus produced by the mega churches,, perfectly aware their producers are fraudsters.
HIis God is money and he openly laughs at the gullibility of their followers.
"One day in 2015, Donald Trump beckoned Michael Cohen, his longtime confidant and personal attorney, into his office. Trump was brandishing a printout of an article about an Atlanta-based megachurch pastor trying to raise $60 million from his flock to buy a private jet. Trump knew the preacher personally—Creflo Dollar had been among a group of evangelical figures who visited him in 2011 while he was first exploring a presidential bid. During the meeting, Trump had reverently bowed his head in prayer while the pastors laid hands on him. Now he was gleefully reciting the impious details of Dollar’s quest for a Gulfstream G650.
“They’re all hustlers,” Trump said." Keep reading from The Atlantic magazine