First son Eric Trump sparked a wave of anger this week when he told MAGA influencer Benny Johnson that his family is “saving God.”
Trump joined Johnson on Tuesday to pitch his new book titled “Under Siege: My Family’s Fight to Save Our Nation.” While making his sales pitch, Eric Trump said of his family’s time in the White House, “And look how much better humanity and our world is. You know, we’re saving Christianity. We’re saving God. We’re saving the family unit. We are saving this nation.”
“I mean, you know, DEI is out the window, Benny. You know, I mean, you no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead,” he continued, adding:
And yet, what do we have? We have a return to people going to church. We have a return to people valuing their children and valuing society and believing in the white picket fence and what the American dream represents and what their American
dream stands for and American exceptionalism and peace around the world and that people can coexist with one another without having to, you know, pick up arms and destroy each other for no reason whatsoever, other than incompetent and egotistical governments. It’s a beautiful time. And he will go to heaven for all of that. God absolutely guided this journey in ways that, you know, you’ll learn in “Under Siege.”
Trump’s over-the-top claims about saving God and the family unit rubbed some people the wrong way.
Author Jennifer Erin Valent reacted, “No one ‘saves’ God. Every Christian should know that and be repulsed by the very assertion. Yet, many professed believers have proven easy prey for such rhetoric, minds ‘seduced from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ’ (2 Cor. 11:3). May God bring repentance and renewal.”
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