Sunday 4 January 2026
Why Trump Is An Antichrist
[Preface: The United States government plans to scrutinise the social media posts of visitors. I wondered whether it will still be safe for me to make a post like this. First I thought so, but then I thought that anyhow it would be sensible to be cautious and not post. Then I decided that if the USA becomes the kind of country that blocks visitors based on posts like this, I want to know about it and I want everyone else to know about it too. Being unable to visit the USA, or even being detained, would be inconvenient to me but no great trouble. So here we go.]
Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. — 1 John 2:18
Here an antichrist is simply someone who opposes Christ and what He stands for. In that sense, Donald Trump is an antichrist.
It’s not that Trump fails to live up to Christ’s teachings (everyone fails). Nor is it that Trump opposes Christians (he’s friendly enough with Christians who give him what he wants). It is that he takes Christ’s teachings and inverts them, calling virtue vice and vice virtue, puts that into practice, and teaches others to do the same.
He made it so obvious that the truth even got through to Marjorie Taylor Greene:
What stayed with Greene long afterward were the last two speakers who took the stage. First there was Kirk’s widow, Erika, who stood in white before the crowd filling the Arizona stadium, lifted her tear-filled eyes and said that she forgave her husband’s killer. And then there was President Trump. “He was a missionary with a noble spirit and a great, great purpose,” he said of Kirk. “He did not hate his opponents. He wanted the best for them. That’s where I disagreed with Charlie. I hate my opponent, and I don’t want the best for them.” “That was absolutely the worst statement,” Greene wrote to me in a text message months after the memorial service. And the contrast between Erika Kirk and the president was clarifying, she added. “It just shows where his heart is. And that’s the difference, with her having a sincere Christian faith, and proves that he does not have any faith.” ... “Our side has been trained by Donald Trump to never apologize and to never admit when you’re wrong,” she told me in her Capitol Hill office one afternoon in early December. “You just keep pummeling your enemies, no matter what. And as a Christian, I don’t believe in doing that.”
Galatians 5:22-23 teaches that the fruit of the Spirit is “love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control”. These are not characteristics that spring to mind when one thinks of Donald Trump. Yet what makes him exceptional is how openly he celebrates their opposites — hate, anger, contempt, unkindness, and unbridled, unrelenting conflict.
It is notable that despite (I assume) years of Christians trying to get through to him, he remains firmly ignorant of God’s grace.
What difference does it make? Sometimes pledging support to an antichrist may be the lesser of two evils in the eyes of the world, but I think for Christians it’s spirtually very dangerous. There’s a constant temptation to feel better about one’s choice by being more accepting of the antichrist’s ways. Sometimes it’s spiritually healthier to abstain from supporting either of the evils. And what good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Take care!