Charisma, a conservative Pentecostal-oriented media outlet, has long been in the tank for President Donald Trump, relentlessly portraying him as anointed by God to lead the U.S. This week, after Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act and deploy the military even more aggressively against American citizens, Charisma’s Abby Trivett declared, “We may be on the brink of a new America.”
Trivett falsely characterized Gov. Tim Walz’s recent comments encouraging Minnesotans to continue documenting ICE’s “organized brutality.” Walz explicitly and repeatedly urged people to protest peacefully, but Trivett claimed that he had “encouraged Minnesotans to continue to clash with ICE agents violently.”
Trivett’s post provided a good example of Christian nationalists’ obsession with authoritarian order and their embrace of the Trump regime’s violence against immigrants as a righteous form of spiritual warfare:
America is approaching a hinge point in history, and Minnesota may be the place where the door finally swings. As lawlessness is celebrated and those tasked with upholding order are mocked, restrained or resisted, the clash between civil authority and spiritual authority is becoming impossible to ignore.
Scripture warns that in the last days “lawlessness will increase” and people would call evil good and good evil — and for many watching what is unfolding in Minnesota right now, that warning feels less theoretical and more like a headline.
Whether critics like it or not, the nation is being forced to choose between chaos and order, rebellion and restraint, anarchy and accountability. And in moments like these, history reveals a pattern: God often exposes the cracks in a nation before He heals it.
Trivett’s comments align with other religious-right leaders who consistently act as public relations agents of the Trump White House and who have adopted the administration’s dishonest rhetoric about the killing of Minneapolis mom Renee Good by an ICE agent.
Pastor and MAGA activist Franklin Graham, who has claimed that anti-ICE protests are organized by radical leftists who want to destroy America, organized a nationwide prayer event this week urging people to pray for Trump administration leaders. Dominionist Dutch Sheets promoted Graham’s call, delivering a prayer that called anti-ICE protesters evil.
