Erika Kirk stood at the microphone with the weight of the world on her shoulders and somehow made it light. She spoke of forgiveness, the kind that isn’t cheap or easy but carved out of pain. She spoke of grief not as a weapon, but as a wound that could, maybe, someday, heal. It was the language of faith, the kind of Christianity that remembers Jesus on the cross saying Forgive them, for they know not what they do—the hard forgiveness, not the Hallmark kind.
The room stilled. For a fleeting moment, America looked capable of grace.
Then Trump took the stage like he’d come to vandalise forgiveness itself. He called Charlie “a man of forgiveness, a man of faith,” and for a flicker, you thought he might stay in that register. But Trump being Trump, he dropped a different gospel: the gospel of spite. “I hate my opponents.”
He didn’t stop there. He tossed in a smirk, then a casual “sorry, Erika,” like cruelty itself was holy scripture. It wasn’t faith—it was parody. Performed religion, stripped of sacrifice, shoved under a spotlight, wearing a MAGA hat. And the crowd applauded. They laughed. A murdered man’s memorial turned into a pep rally, forgiveness drowned out by spite.
This was religion as spectacle—like televangelists weeping on cue while counting the offering plates. Only here, the sermon wasn’t salvation but vengeance, and the congregation cheered it like it was the truth.
Next day, ext speech, a different stage: the United Nations. Same preacher, same gospel of spite. Trump, pounding his pulpit in marble halls, spreading conspiracy theories, telling 140 countries how broken they were, mocking the very institution that handed him the microphone.
If you believe this is satire, you’re right—and wrong at the same time. Because every word actually happened. The official text lives proudly on the White House website, untouched, unashamed, unreal.
And then came the Trump liturgy, verse after verse, preached from the marble pulpit of the UN.
“America is blessed with the strongest economy, the strongest borders, the strongest military, the strongest friendships, and the strongest spirit of any nation on the face of the earth. This is indeed the Golden Age of America.”
(Golden Age? More like the Golden Calf — a false god dressed up in red, white, and blue.)
“Four months in a row, the number of illegal aliens admitted and entering our country has been zero… Our message is very simple: If you come illegally into the United States, you’re going to jail or you’re going back to where you came from.”
(Jesus weeps. He fled as a child refugee to Egypt. Under Trump’s gospel, baby Jesus would be shackled at the border. “Suffer the little children… but not through customs.”)
“In a period of just seven months, I have ended seven ‘un-endable’ wars… No President or Prime Minister — and for that matter, no other country — has ever done anything close to that…”
( God created everything in seven days. Trump claims he ended seven wars in seven months. Genesis, but with cheeseburgers and a Diet Coke.)
“What is the purpose of the United Nations? The UN has such tremendous potential… All they seem to do is write a really strongly worded letter, and then never follow that letter up. It’s empty words — and empty words don’t solve war.”
(Paul’s letters built a church. Trump’s letters make you either blush or puke — just check out Jeffrey Epstein’s birthday card.)
“Everyone says that I should get the Nobel Peace Prize… but for me, the real prize will be the sons and daughters who live to grow up with their mothers and fathers because millions of people are no longer being killed in endless and unglorious wars. What I care about is not winning prizes, it’s saving lives.”
(Saul hated the songs about David and threw spears. Trump hates the Nobel Peace Prize on Obama’s shelf and throws tantrums.)
“A dramatically better future is within our reach — but to get there, we must reject the failed approaches of the past and work together to confront some of the greatest threats in history.”
(Noah warned people of floods and built an ark. Trump warns people of solar panels and builds nothing but fear.)
“My position is very simple: the world’s number one sponsor of terror can never be allowed to possess the most dangerous weapon.”
(David faced Goliath with a stone. Trump faces the world with a warhead. Guess who looks more like the giant now.)
“Now, as if to encourage continued conflict, some of this body is seeking to unilaterally recognise a Palestinian state… Instead of giving in to Hamas’s ransom demands, those who want peace should be united with one message: release the hostages now!”
(Jesus said, ‘Blessed are the peacemakers.’ Trump says, ‘Blessed are the dealmakers.’)
“Today, I’m also calling on every nation to join us in ending the development of biological weapons once and for all.”
(The plagues of Egypt were biblical. Trump is all ten rolled into one.)
“Not only is the UN not solving the problems it should, too often, but it is also actually creating new problems for us to solve… The United Nations is funding an assault on Western countries and their borders… The UN is supposed to stop invasions, not create them and not finance them.”
(The Tower of Babel fell once. Trump wouldn’t care but blame the radical left.)
“What makes the world so beautiful is that each country is unique — but to stay this way, every sovereign nation must have the right to control their own borders.”
(The Good Samaritan bound wounds. Trump builds walls.)
“When your prisons are filled with so-called ‘asylum seekers’ who repaid kindness with crime, it’s time to end the failed experiment of open borders.”
(The Bible tells us to “Love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.” Trump can’t find Egypt on a map, so he just hates the strangers instead.)
Any system that results in the mass trafficking of children is inherently evil — yet that is exactly what the globalist migration agenda has done.”
(Herod hunted children in Bethlehem. Trump hunts migrants and calls it safety.)
“To every terrorist thug smuggling poisonous drugs into the United States of America, please be warned — we will blow you out of existence.”
(Thou shalt not kill… unless it’s a campaign promise.)
“I’m telling you that if you don’t get away from the ‘green energy’ scam, your country is going to fail. If you don’t stop people that you’ve never seen before that you have nothing in common with, your country is going to fail.”
(God said Let there be light. Trump said Let there be coal. Who’s the heretic now?)
“The entire globalist concept of asking successful, industrialised nations to inflict pain on themselves and radically disrupt their entire societies must be rejected completely and totally — and it must be immediate.”
(Moses asked Pharaoh to let his people go. Trump asks steel mills to stay open. Same tone, different plagues.)
“The challenge with trade is much the same as with climate: the countries that followed the rules, all their factories have been plundered… by countries that broke the rules. That’s why the United States is now applying tariffs to other countries.”
(The Ten Commandments, now updated: Thou shalt not steal…… but thou may tariff thy neighbour.)
“Together, let us defend free speech and free expression. Let us protect religious liberty, including for the most persecuted religion on the planet today — it’s called Christianity.”
(Peter denied Christ three times before the cock crowed. Trump denies forgiveness every time he opens his mouth. Which gospel are we meant to believe?)
It was performed religion again, now globally. A false gospel of tariffs, walls, and threats, cheered by the faithful, nervously tolerated by the rest of the world. Forgiveness was out, spite was in, and the UN chamber sounded like a church choir singing off-key while the organ burned.
The scripture was written long ago. We have seen the true face of grace and the grimace of the idol. The only miracle left to ask for is not that the false prophet would change, but that the congregation would finally open its eyes.