Sunday, April 19, 2026
Sunday Reflection: Trump/Jesus
As most people have seen, President Trump recently posted (then deleted) an image of him as Jesus, healing a sick man. I can't bring myself to re-post that image, so instead I offer you the variation above, which at least includes Grimace and the Hamburglar.
One thing that Trump loves to do is provoke people on the other side, and this particular stunt hit a little more broadly than he intended, given that it upset a number of his own supporters, as well.
The threat of Trump supplanting Jesus isn't, well, people thinking that Trump is Jesus. The threat is something subtler.
In short, Trump gives certain people two things they long for: Identity and meaning. They wear the swag, they post the sign, they support him no matter what he does-- it isn't so much that they believe in his policies; it is that being his supporter is who they are.
And that is where Jesus gets supplanted. Faith, at its best, provides those same two things: identity and meaning.
And that's how we got here...
