God and Trump: Does the Lord approve of his administration?

Feb 19

It’s time to get political again.

Only one other article on this site waded overtly into American politics, when I explained my decision to vote for neither major presidential candidate in 2024 (and in several elections before that). The purpose of that post wasn’t political per se, but to express concern with how the Christian church engaged in politics and with Donald Trump in particular.

With Trump in office for over a year now, those concerns have multiplied. Many Christians venerate him even more, despite Trump’s unseemly issues becoming more egregious. Again, the point is not how horrible he is, but how Christians have compromised our witness and integrity to support him despite how horrible he is.

When Christians defend him, it’s often in political terms. He’s better than the Democrats would have been. We had to defeat them. They’ll mention positions they agree with, particularly related to immigration — although those points of agreement are not as many as they used to be. They speak as anyone would about politicians they support, and that’s my point: It’s pragmatic, worldly reasoning.

What I don’t hear very often are appeals to God. Sure, there are some who exalt Trump as a man of God and post memes of him praying with Jesus, but that’s too cringy and blasphemous for even his other Christian supporters. It’s the latter group I’m focusing on. Sometimes, they even try to separate their support for Trump from their faith — “he’s a president, not a pastor” — and accuse Trump’s Christian critics of holier-than-thou piety and Jesus juking (much like Democrats have always done). They downplay, dismiss, or deny Trump’s evils; I once saw a prominent Christian influencer say she didn’t think Trump was evil because the Democrats were worse, which is moral relativism. They’ll toss out the phrase “Trump derangement syndrome” — as if Trump is above criticism. Which is idolatry.

But if they’re professing Christians, shouldn’t they consider, what does God think of Trump? Is the Lord pleased with this administration? Does He want His people to support Trump? Shouldn’t His favor determine ours? Isn’t evil evil, no matter who commits it or what anyone else does? I don’t see them wrestling with those questions. Where God stands is either assumed or ignored while they spout their own opinions and logic.

This article will ask those questions, and I believe I have answers, based on several aspects of Trump’s presidency and what the Bible teaches.

Let’s start with his personal wickedness:

Trump’s character

Few Christians would disagree that Trump is an unregenerate sinner, although few would admit how deep his depravity is and how brazenly he wears it on his sleeve. He has always been a man of insatiable lust and greed. His presidency has illustrated how hateful he is, openly reviling anyone who doesn’t support him. He is a pathological liar. He is a vile, dark-hearted man, even compared to the rest of sinful humanity.

And he is unrepentant, denying his need for forgiveness.

But his worst abomination is one that I don’t see his Christian supporters talk about at all: pride. Trump is a man of astonishing, gargantuan pride. He is constantly exalting himself. He makes everything about him, even the passing of others. He credits himself for everything good, and absolves himself for everything bad. The purpose of many of his lies, such as poll numbers, economic figures, and election results, is to glorify himself.

The Bible abundantly reveals what God thinks of pride in a leader:

In Daniel 4, God drove King Nebuchadnezzar insane because of his pride.
In Acts 12, God struck down King Herod Agrippa because of his pride.
In Isaiah 10, God rebuked “the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria” for thinking their assaults on Israel and Judah were by their own strength and volition.
In Ezekiel 28, God condemned the king of Tyre:
“Because your heart is lifted up,
And you say, ‘I am a god,
I sit in the seat of gods,
In the midst of the seas,’
Yet you are a man, and not a god,
Though you set your heart as the heart of a god.”
In 2 Chronicles 32:25, God even threatened His wrath against Hezekiah, one of the godliest kings of the Bible, because of his pride.

Trump’s ego would make all of the above blush. Christians, does God approve of a man of such satanic pride?

Trump’s administration

Next, let’s examine the top officials in Trump’s White House to see where they stand with God:

Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are Roman Catholics. As some of Trump’s Christian supporters would agree, Roman Catholicism teaches a false gospel of works meriting eternal life and idolizes Mary as the “queen of heaven,” among other heresies. On top of that, RFK Jr. comes from the liberal Catholicism of the Kennedy family; more on him further down.
The head of Trump’s “Faith Office” is Paula White, a prominent preacher in the hypercharismatic Word of Faith movement, which teaches prosperity for Christians who give them money and elevates their faith as sovereign over God. She once had an adulterous affair with Benny Hinn, and has said, “anyone who tells you to deny yourself is from satan” — even though that’s a teaching of Jesus. She and her husband once advised married couples to watch porn.
Attorney General Pam Bondi’s religion, if any, is not publicly known.
FBI Director Kash Patel and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard are Hindus, which may explain why Trump participated in a Hindu worship ceremony in the Oval Office.
Surgeon general nominee Casey Means has worked with mediums, spirit guides, and other pagan, occult practices.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is the highest-ranking openly gay man in American history. He is fifth in the line of succession to the presidency.
The first Homeland Security secretary of Trump’s second term was Kristi Noem … well, just Google her relationships. Oy. He put her in charge of securing the homeland?!
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is a member of a church that belongs to the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, which was co-founded by pastor Doug Wilson, of Moscow, Idaho. Wilson appeared at the Pentagon in February 2026. See this website for a litany of Wilson’s problematic theology and other troubling statements. Hegseth’s Christian nationalism is symbolized by a large Jerusalem cross, used in the Crusades, tattooed on his chest.

Between White and the Catholics, this Trump administration may be the pinnacle of false Christianity in America, considering they claim to represent and defend the faith with conservative Christian support. Through White, the hypercharismatic New Apostolic Reformation has the most access to power it’s ever had. That’s in addition to outright paganism being celebrated at the president’s desk.

Christians, does God approve of a White House that’s saturated with such heresy, blasphemy, idolatry, immorality, and false religion?

Trump’s policies

Trump’s Christian supporters, when they have nothing else to stand on, often fall back on his policies. But when we consider what he has said and done in office about a couple of issues Christian conservatives have been passionate about, one has to wonder how they continue to justify their unflinching support.

Abortion

For decades, the No. 1 issue in Christian political activism has rightly been the holocaust of abortion. But Trump has done as much as any Republican president to undermine the pro-life cause:

In 2024, the Republican National Committee removed federal limits on abortion from the party platform for the first time in 40 years.
In October 2025, the Food and Drug Administration approved a generic version of the abortion pill mifepristone. Its low cost expanded access to the easiest way to kill babies. Mifepristone accounted for 63 percent of all abortions — over 642,000 — in the U.S. in 2023, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
In December 2025, the Department of Health and Human Services — Kennedy’s agency — restored funding to Planned Parenthood, prompting the American Civil Liberties Union to drop a lawsuit. The funding was renewed for another year in March 2026.
In October 2025, the Trump administration launched an initiative to promote in-vitro fertilization, which results in the destruction of human embryos — people.
Trump has repeatedly refused to ban abortion before 16 weeks of pregnancy, even opposing state laws that do that. Ninety-five percent of abortions take place during the first 16 weeks.
And, of course, he appointed Kennedy — whose history of pro-abortion zealotry includes defending it right up until birth for any reason — to oversee the department that regulates abortion.

Christians, does God approve of a president who actively preserves and continues the genocide of babies, the worst moral and humanitarian crisis the world has ever seen?

Pro-life Trump defenders point out that his Supreme Court appointments led to the end of Roe v. Wade. But abortions in the U.S. have increased since then, reversing a decades-long decline. They also point to his unprecedented support of the March for Life, but all of the above renders that nothing more than hypocritical pandering to placate the poodles on his leash. It’s like someone who goes to church twice a year (like Trump).

They also reiterate that the Democrats would be worse, with their championing of unrestricted abortion. But the election’s over; why compare and defend Trump now? And where in their reading of the Bible do they get the idea that God would be OK with protecting 95 percent of baby murders, and that such a small margin can be the difference between condemnation and emphatic support? Does God weigh evil on a scale? Grade on a curve? Does He excuse wickedness because something else is slightly more wicked? Does He tolerate sin so His people can win? Does He want us to resist evil with evil?

Epstein

When Trump took office in 2025, one thing his Christian conservative base eagerly looked forward to was the release of the “Epstein files” — government documents and materials related to the horrifying child sex trafficking ring run by Jeffrey Epstein, who died in prison in 2019 (during Trump’s first term). In February 2025, Bondi said she had a list of Epstein clients on her desk.

Not only did no such list ever materialize, but the Trump White House has repeatedly resisted calls to release unredacted documents, even after Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act in late 2025, mandating the release of unclassified materials. Trump initially opposed the bill and agreed to sign it only under Republican pressure. Various reports have estimated the number of Epstein files that have been released as about half of them at most, with some claiming it’s as low as 2 percent — and all heavily redacted. Thousands of files remain hidden.

As of this writing, no one has been arrested, at least not in the United States. Trump, Bondi, and Leavitt have declared the investigation over and have demanded that critics move on. Why? What could prompt such a stark about-face on Epstein, which has caused consternation among even some of his staunchest supporters?

In light of:

Trump’s much-documented association with Epstein …
Trump’s name appearing thousands of times in just the released files …
The August 2025 transfer of Ghislaine Maxwell, who co-ran Epstein’s operation, to a minimum-security prison …
Trump’s history of adultery, lust, lewdness, and other sexual filth, including walking in on the Miss Teen USA dressing room and sexualizing his own daughter …

The White House’s vociferous resistance to a cause Trump and Bondi once championed looks, at best, like a cover-up of one of the worst moral scandals in American history. It looks like they’re protecting pedophiles — perhaps one in particular.

This is eerily consistent with other associations with pedos and sex traffickers, such as Matt Gaetz, Trump’s first choice for attorney general; and Andrew Tate, one of the most evil, vile public figures in the world, for whom the Trump administration has advocated. White House officials who have publicly supported Tate include Alina Habba, former counselor to the president; and Paul Ingrassia, former White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security.

Christians, does God approve?

Ask the question

Many of Trump’s Christian fans seem to assume God does approve because of his apparent support and political empowerment of Christianity. But the way they’ve reacted to all of the above evils shows that Trump has corrupted Christians far more than he’s helped them. If any one of those facts were true of a Democratic president who regularly invoked God and hawked Bibles emblazoned with his own name, conservative Christians would be screaming in rage from the rooftops.

But instead, some Christians don’t seem to care as much about abortion anymore. They don’t seem to care as much about Epstein anymore. They don’t seem to care about a leader’s own morality anymore — boy, the apology they owe Bill Clinton! All because of Trump. Their association with him has made them compromise much of what they claimed to believe, and made them more like him, not the other way around.

One way they’ve been compromised is by not asking the question: Does God not just ordain but commend a president who …

Is personally wicked and prideful?
Leads an administration filled with false Christians at the top?
Is soft at best or, worse, complicit toward abortion and child sex trafficking?

If the Lord doesn’t approve, how can we?

Keith Kraska