Chris Matthews and Morning Joe Crew Destroys Trump for Portraying Himself as ‘Messianic’ on Easter: Trump is Saying, ‘I’m Him! I’m God!’

Chris Matthews and the Morning Joe team destroyed former President Donald Trump for presenting himself as “messianic” on Easter Sunday.

Appearing on Morning Joe Monday, Matthews — the ex-MSNBC host — called out the former president for holding himself up as the savior to his followers.

“This presidential candidate, Donald Trump, is saying, I am the shepherd!” Matthews said. “I’m him! I’m God! It’s astounding to me. It’s astounding to me that he can talk like this. It’s blasphemy.”

Matthews went on to argue that Democrats haven’t quite grasped the scope of what Trump is doing and are underestimating their opponent.

“I don’t know if the Democrats have really thought through this campaign and what they’re up against,” Matthews said. “This guy’s calling himself God! … And if he can get away with that, then it is truly a cult.”

Morning Joe panelist Katty Kay criticized Christian leaders who — in her view — are not pushing back strongly enough.

“He does sort of portray himself as a messianic religious figure,” Kay said. “But where are the moderate non-Trump Christians standing up and saying, ‘Hold on a second! We worship God. We don’t worship country. We don’t even worship America. That’s not the basis of the Christian religion. We don’t. We certainly don’t worship an individual.’ So where are those Christian leaders who think that what is happening in this slightly kind of cult-like world that Trump has built around himself with followers who flock to churches for him every weekend and have done so over Easter? Where are they?”

Watch above, via MSNBC.