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Roughly three months into President Donald Trump’s second term, White evangelical Protestants continue to be among his strongest supporters:
72% approve of the way Trump is currently handling his job as president.
69% rate the ethics of top Trump administration officials as excellent or good.
57% say they trust what Trump says more than what previous presidents said.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/04/28/white-evangelicals-continue-to-stand-out-in-their-support-for-trump/
Jace99
Well, in a few weeks they’ll be unemployed or losing their farms so they’ll have lots of time to take turns sucking off their golden calf.
Pelican3
Project 2025 marches on
Axiomatic13
My friends.
mardukkur
Poll white evangelicals participating in an MLM scheme and I bet you get those numbers up another 10-15%. They've finally succeeded in building a political party out of the country's dumbest marks. https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-long-con
ssjalhazred
Evangelicalism is a death cult. They want bad things to happen. Trump is making bad things happen.
magicrhombus
I mean, he's their dream, so of course? They've been trying to destroy democracy and replace it with christofascism for decades.
chatawillybilly
Hispanic Catholics 26%. How many are white with 1/4th Hispanic blood claiming to be Hispanic for this poll.
KatInTheCorner
There are money changers in the church, for sure...
junkgoof
So the most gullible people in the US believe the propaganda? What a surprise.
sadurdaynight
Lot of white evangelical are on govt aid. And Trump's fixing to cut medicaid. I think walmart swung a deal w trump to avoid china tariffa, but there's still rising costs in general. Trump and friends will find some way to blame minorities for issues or something to keep stringjng these cultusts along.
razorsharpdoubleedgedlegaldualmindblades
Make religious nutbar's opinions irrelevant again.
laserfork
I mean, yeah. Before the election even the Project 2025 people described what's going on now as the Second American Revolution and said "it will be bloodless if you allow it to be". No wonder they strongly support Trump. Sounds like in their mind the war has already started and they're winning. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/04/leader-of-the-pro-trump-project-2025-suggests-there-will-be-a-new-american-revolution-00166583
ToSisPoS
Vance really alienated the Hispanic Catholic demo when he killed the pope.
jrntn
Did he though? Francis wasn't very popular with the kinds of catholic that vote Republican
ToSisPoS
Meus pontifex iure qua iniuria
kurvarVillain
VaultGirl69
My mother is Asian and very religious and keeps voting for him because she's been convinced by her church and Fox that her party is the Christian party. I take every opportunity to explain to her that legislation is about how the government operates, and that most Democrats are also Christian. And that she should vote on real issues and not her homophobia because voting won't make gay people disappear, but she could lose her retirement, as well my father's VA disability pension.
Toqom
Evangelical just means moronic bigot now
EveryoneDiesAlone
This explains the pandering to religion. I mean, not the actions. Just the pandering.
Perfectlynormalhumanbieng
Then there’s us black people just chillin with those high disapprovals. If you can count on anything it’s on us just straight up hating that piece of shit.
meganical
You can always expect the African-American community to keep it as real as possible
Dahnzo
I grew up Catholic and came to the conclusion around 18 that all church leadership is corrupt in ways that directly contradict their teachings, but maybe I should have been going to a Black Protestant church
Nim449
Thank you for your service.
TheZommie
26% of religiously unaffiliated liking how trump is handling things? that seems like a really high number, are that many of atheists tech-bros?
AgnosticPaladin
Some of the unaffiliated might be so because they find all the current Cristo-fascist churches too liberal.
Beardedgeek72
White Evangelicals are just evil.
cytherians
40% of adults in the USA support this absolute fool...
What he has done is just unforgivably bad and unsavory side effects are already being felt. This is not the great economy he promised. Of course it isn't. At least he admitted that his statement about lowering prices on "Day One" was an exaggeration. 😳🤪 No, it was more like an outright lie. He lies about everything. Why would anyone vote for a proven serial liar?
eion85
Do you want Christofascism because this is how you get Christofascism.
Dannoboyo
*Got.
DukeSliscus
evangelicals -are- fascists
shawnemack
We already got it
DaveSamsonite
White evangelicals are not Christians. They just want everyone else to be forced to adopt their own cultish beliefs.!
ThomasTheWankEnglne
well duh...what do you think america first means. white america
countbassy
Exactly
ChazzK
Unfortunately, too many would answer that as "yes". Not realizing that "those" Christofascists and "these" Christofascists are gonna be turning on each other as soon as they run out of more-obvious people to other.
WholeWheatBunnyHugger
White evangelical -is- Christo-fascism
doccynical
They absolutely want christofascism. They've been waiting 40 years for this. There truly is no hate like Christian love.
countbassy
Hail Satan
justfiguredoutimc4azyanddumbb
HAIL
Birdnose
Yes, that’s what they want, hence the approval
ModernVoodooApostasy
And the makeup of the Senate and the Electoral College WAY-overrepresent white evangelicals, so nothing is going to change.
Shawnofavitch
Of course the Christofascist's want the Antichrist in charge. I believe it's called the crusades.
johnlebeef
"Breaking News: Most hateful demographic approves of most hateful policies. More at 11..."
MouseCheese1
Anyone who voted for Trump is not a Christian.
meganical
Technically, I think I could agree with that statement if we imply Christian means “followers of the teachings of Jesus Christ,” because we have irrefutable proof the people they vote take actions that directly oppose the teachings of Jesus. Again, I believe we need to start separating Christianity into Old Testament Christians and New Testament Christians because there is a BIG difference
MouseCheese1
Old Testament Christians? When you quote Leviticus as Gods Law and say that they are rules we must follow because they are what God or Jesus wants us to do. What you are really saying, as a Christian, is that Christs sacrifice on the cross was invalid. He died in vain because you are still beholden to the old laws. That is what you, as a self-professed good Christian, are saying to you God and his son, that their plan for your salvation was not good enough for you.
ModernVoodooApostasy
The most accurate working definition of the word Christian is someone who tells you how other Christians aren't *real* Christians.
MouseCheese1
Its pretty clear that Trump is about as far away from being a shining light for Christianity as you can get. The man has no redeeming qualities at all, so anyone who votes for him based on religous ideals has a very different idea of what the teachings of Jesus has to me. Personally, Mathew 22 37:40 covers all i need.
ModernVoodooApostasy
You have a much, much, much higher opinion of Christianity than I do. I'll be nice and drop it at that.
MouseCheese1
Im an athiest, but i do find it interesting.
DiracsDelta
I’m sorry, how is this news? The election demographic results have been pretty much unchanged since 2016. If you wanted the highest chance of finding a trumper, start with a group of white Protestant married men over 45 years old.
ModernVoodooApostasy
the are radically overrepresented electorally though, so...
cosinewave
Despite the fact everything about MAGA is decidedly un-Christian
420710SLF
Real Christianity doesn't exist anymore. That is what Christianity is now. Not that it wasn't anything but evil for the last 1000 years anyway.
SomeDetroitGuy
Everyone I know who self-describes as an evangelical Christian is very un-Christlike.
Pally01
*Looks at history* Uh....
Gerokeymaster
To be fair, so are at *least* 99% of the people I've ever met who self-described themselves as evangelical Christians.
ProjectDA
thats why its popular woth evangelist. money makes you holy, poor is the only sin.
Hrafna55
'Christian' is just a label for an extreme right wing social grouping at this point.
meganical
Trump literally cut major funding to Meals On Wheels, so he is directly taking food out of the mouths of the disabled and elderly—I’m quite certain Jesus explicitly stated to do the exact opposite! They defunded USAID, which has confirmed a result that already 300 babies in Africa that could have been born without HIV if given proper medicine (as they were receiving before the budget slashing) were now born with HIV. Jesus said to heal the sick, not make people sick!
dragoonwraith
Oh, but it is all about the very most important thing to political Christians: MAGA asserts that Christianity is special and Christians are foremost among America’s citizens, that non-Christians are second-class, or worse. Nothing could be more “Christian” than that, in their minds.
SavageDrums
So is everything about evangelical Christianity.
stayingalive4life
Which just proves they never actually read the Bible or tried to understand it.
ModernVoodooApostasy
Numbers 31:17-18
jwhennig
Oh, that old gem.
Trelis
The thing with gop is that despite claiming to be pro constitution and Bible, they constantly misinterpret both texts, intentionally and maliciously.
stayingalive4life
That or they’ve never really read it or understood the message.
Trelis
The voter group as a whole never read either text, but are fed lies by people who have read both to fit their narrative in an effort to guide the voters.
stayingalive4life
https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTY1YjkxZmJlbjYyajNzamJjdXdkYTA3aXp1ZGJvaGxiZ294YmJqcWZnd3VsOGV1MSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/z3HFoEzXCMykr4L0TB/giphy.mp4
DWolf
Evangelicals are anti-Christian.
SpamYarBlockers
They believe in power, not compassion
VictusVonGuyver
The prosperity Gospel is about worshiping wealth and privilege, not God and Christ.
DWolf
Amen! And pass the collection plate.
fractalsphere
The christo-fascists don't get a say in our government. They can keep to their own enclaves like Waco or Jonestown.
mratio
freshthrowaway1138
Well except that they are better at democracy than the pro-democracy groups, which is why they control most of the country.
also, I'm guessing you don't realize how many of your neighbors are christian nationalists.
SmellingMistake
Pretty sure they're the ones running the government now.
ModernVoodooApostasy
yup
Thesaya
So, does both protestant and black protestant include black protestants?
wandermanspacebot
Yes.
Nim449
See the indentation???
Thesaya
Ah right, I missed that.