The Divine Right of … Presidents?

In January, 2024 Donald Trump supporters made a video called “God Made Trump.” It was in the style of Paul Harvey’s famous speech “So God Made a Farmer.” It even included a simulation of the legendary broadcaster’s voice, and it began like this:

“And on June 14, 1946, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, ‘I need a caretaker.’ So God gave us Trump.”

For more than two minutes, the video waxes eloquent about Trump’s alleged virtues, and then it declares that he’s a “shepherd to mankind who won’t ever leave nor forsake them.”

Trump liked the video so much he shared it from his Truth Social account.

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