Introduction:

People often ask me as a Christian how I can support a man like Donald Trump, considering his infidelities, mean tweets, aggressive attitudes toward immigrants, and various other complaints. Many think he’s an existential threat to our freedom and our democracy. Yet millions of Christians love him and support him with unprecedented zeal. Is he a demagogue, a dictator, or a deliverer? It’s clear that our country is divided, and the risks facing America are greater than at any time since the Civil War. We need to be united. But is that responsible? Is it even possible?

It’s easy just to blame Trump for the division. His strong words may offend, but legacy media outlets routinely condemn him no matter what he says. Rejecting objective journalism, their only goal is to stir viewers’ emotions to get more clicks and views. We need to find a new rubric for understanding the news to avoid their manipulation. Let’s consider what the Word of God says about a righteous attitude toward our leaders, even this boisterous, wrecking ball personality who is making more sweeping changes than any other U.S. president in history.

As a country, we are constantly fighting with each other and can’t seem to avoid the polarizing effects of 24/7 partisan news. We have survived bad leadership in the past, and we can trust God to work even through a hardhead like Donald Trump. Fortunately, he is actively seeking God’s will, and that alone should give Christians hope. God’s word tells us how to live in precarious times. Consider that a crazed emperor was threatening the early church with mass executions when Paul was telling them to pray for him with thanksgiving. We should stop wringing our hands while undercutting our leaders and step into the position of responsible leadership that God intended for the Church.

How Can a Christian Support Donald Trump?

Many ask if it’s ethical for a Christian to support a man like Donald Trump. He says mean things, he pushes his weight around the country and the globe, and he’s been involved in a string of extramarital affairs. He is roundly accused of being a threat to Democracy. How could a Christian even consider supporting him?

First off, we need to recognize that God chooses our leaders (Romans 13:1) and has established their authority for our own good (v. 3). And lest you think that He couldn’t have chosen a man as awful as Trump, remember that Nero (who burned Christians as party favors) was ruler when Paul penned this verse. We need to be careful about rejecting a man like Trump because he doesn’t fit our mold. He fit God’s mold. That doesn’t mean we can’t criticize him; he’s not an idol. We should never give to Caesar what belongs to God (Matthew 22:21), and we must “obey God rather than man” (Acts 5:29). Nevertheless, we must not reject God’s established authority just because we object to Trump’s manner and style. We need to come together to support and pray for him so that we can live in peace (1 Tim. 2:1-3).

Why Unity Is So Important

Our nation is facing incredible challenges globally. We’re threatened with war on multiple fronts. The president is taking bold steps to rearrange global alignments so that we will not continue to surrender our sovereignty to other nations. Whether you agree with him or not, he needs the support of Christians praying for favor and wisdom. If he is to push forward, he needs God’s help. If he needs to pull back, he needs God’s wisdom and correction. It’s beautiful that he is constantly affirming his dependence on the sovereignty of God for his mission. In his Easter dinner message, Trump confessed core Christian doctrines, declaring Jesus as “the living Son of God” who was “betrayed, arrested… and nailed to a cross.” He proclaimed the “death and resurrection of Jesus” as central to the Christian faith, celebrating that “Jesus had defeated darkness and death” and offers new life and the hope of heaven to all who believe. We see his Christian faith in his close ties to evangelical leaders like Paula White, Franklin Graham, and Mike Huckabee. His revival of the White House Faith Office in 2025 reveals a bold vision of faith centering on religious liberty, ministry partnerships, and Christian leadership. He even prays openly at cabinet meetings!

The world is watching to see how the Church will respond. We should rejoice that Christ is being preached (as Paul did when his enemies were preaching Christ just to make trouble for him Philippians 1:15-18). Instead, we can’t even have the grace to be grateful that Trump’s entire administration is glorifying Christ. We look like fools to the world. According to John 17:21we even tarnish the testimony of Jesus when we divide and feud. We need to stop infighting and learn to honor our differences without enmity. We also need to pray for Donald Trump and rejoice that he talks about Jesus more than any president in recent memory. That alone should be a cause for celebration!

Unfortunately, the legacy media cannot treat Trump fairly. He should have won the Nobel Peace Prize for brokering the Abraham Accords. But driven by anti-Trump reporting, many Christians even criticize his efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war and to deescalate the war in the Middle East. As followers of Christ, we need to answer a higher call. We are the light of the world (Matthew 5:14) and Christ’s ambassadors (2 Corinthians 5:20). We should have an appropriate, righteous, and reverential view of politics and our President.

How We Can Unite

Today’s divided Church should remember that Jesus cautioned his disciples about both the spirit of religion or leaven of the Pharisees, and the political spirit, or leaven of Herod (Mark 8:15). He knew that these would tear the church apart. When Christians, like the Pharisees before them, look down on Donald Trump because of his past moral failings, they forget that God has chosen murderers (Moses, David), philanderers (Samson, and many others) and sinners of all types to rule His people. They also despise him because they disagree with his politics. Christ condemned both attitudes. We must look beyond our sense of moral superiority to see what God is doing in and through Donald Trump. And we need to be able to pray for him so that we may live quiet and tranquil lives (1 Timothy 2:1-2).

Despite his flaws, Trump deserves and needs our respect and our prayers. We need to humbly recognize that he is our leader, elected by a huge majority of counties, and by a narrow popular majority as well. He was clear about what he planned to do, and he is doing exactly what he promised. Even if you disagree with him, he won the election. You can vote again in 2028. Until then, recognize that most Americans support his actions and they want him to be able to work his agenda just like Joe Biden was able work his. That’s the way the system is supposed to work!

The Greatest Threat We Face

America now faces its greatest threat since the Civil War. But now the consequences are global. Trump inherited a war with the #2 nuclear power in the world. One of his campaign promises was to stop the war in Ukraine. Many Christians hate Trump so much that they don’t even want to see him succeed in the peace negotiations. If war broke out against America, there would be no telling how our enemies might wage the war. They may already be hidden within our borders. If only 0.1% of the recent ten million unvetted immigrants in our country were insurgents, there could be a hidden army of 10,000 terrorists just waiting for orders to destroy our strategic resources. And where oceans once protected us from enemy attack, hypersonic missile technology has neutralized that protection. We need our President to succeed in bringing peace to the globe and stop undercutting his every move just because we don’t like his tweets, his language, or his desire to deport criminal illegals.

Moving Forward Together

Christians should stop twisting everything Donald Trump says to the worst possible interpretation and pretending that he’s a monster. The media only started attacking him when his populist agenda started threatening forever wars, big Pharma, and climate change/ESG cabals. Before that, he was a media darling. When he threatened the establishment, they went for blood (literally). Yet, he’s been outspoken about his agenda for decades. In 1988, Oprah Winfrey interviewed him about his vision for America, and she was so impressed that she asked him if he would consider running for President. In 1999, during the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition’s Wall Street Project conference in New York, Jesse Jackson thanked Trump for his contributions to their cause. Even early in the 2016 presidential campaign, mainstream media gave him a green light. It was only when they started to see him as a threat to take the White House that they started attacking him. Yet he’s been very consistent about his views for 40 years. It’s just politically driven media manipulation that makes people see him as a tyrant.

Bottom line, we need to recognize the following:

1. Donald Trump has flaws, but so do we all. His are just more visible.
2. Donald Trump threatened huge cabals of financial greed (military, pharma, banking, etc.) and has paid the price. The media turned on him and he has been castigated, scrutinized, and legally attacked more than any other public figure in recent memory.
3. Despite that, he received the approval of over 80% of the counties, 58% of the electoral college, and a margin in the popular vote of 1.6% over Harris.
4. He has done exactly what he promised to the American people, and his approval rating is higher than it was immediately after the election.
5. God said that He chooses our leaders and that He wants us to pray for them.
6. Donald Trump is openly welcoming Christians into the White House and the Administration in unprecedented numbers. He often asks for prayer. That’s a good thing no matter what the party.
7. Jesus called the Church to be united as one, just as He and the Father are one.

Let’s stop dividing and criticizing each other so we can start pulling together instead of pulling down our current leader. Everyone has a right to their opinion, and we won’t agree on everything. But we should all agree that if Donald Trump is seeking God and welcoming sincere believers into the White House, that’s a good thing. God used murders, adulterers in both Israel and the early Church. He can use Trump. Stop partnering with the spirits of religious judgment and political division to tear down the man that God has chosen to lead our nation, for such a time as this.