How Pres. Donald Trump easily fooled Christians

It is not news anymore that Christians around the world sold out Jesus and bought outgoing US President Donald Trump. From Lagos to Louisiana, from Soweto to San Polo, Christians bent what they knew to be right to get crooked Trump to fit in. They separated private morality from public postures just to let themselves sleep well at night.

As President Trump goes home to Mar-a-Lago, within the inner sanctuaries of churches, Christians now ask questions about how they allowed themselves to be fooled by a man who did not hide who he was for one second.

We need to talk. Yeah. All you, evangelicals, we need to have a serious conversation.

From the first day, Trump told the world who he was/is. The evangelicals didn’t believe him. Unlike President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria, there was no doubt about the image Trump put out. The evangelicals simply ignored it. There were no complexities about what we knew about Trump. The real Trump was out there for everyone to see. He didn’t hide it from day one. For crying out loud, in four years in the White House, he only picked up the Bible once. When he attended church, it was for a funeral. He did not even pretend to go on Easter day. Unlike Buhari, Trump did not have sophisticated consultants to paint a different image of him to win an election.