President Donald Trump has excited many of his Charismatic Christian supporters by posting on social media a nearly twenty-year-old prophecy by the late Kim Clement about Trump’s rise to power. “Donald Trump Goes Prophetic” read a headline at the Trump-promoting Pentacostal-oriented media outlet Charisma on Monday. “Donald Trump just posted the Kim Clements Prophecy!” tweeted MAGA marketer and dominionist Lance Wallnau.
Before his death in 2016, Clement traveled the country giving “prophetic” performances and was promoted by outlets like Charisma and The Elijah List. The prophesies Trump shared this week were delivered in Redding, California, home of controversial and influential megachurch Bethel, and Scottsdale, Arizona, in 2007.
Trump’s dominionists backers have shared Clement’s prophecies for years, contending that Trump’s elections and actions have fulfilled them. Trump sharing them now could be a sign that he is taking to heart the idea that he is anointed and carrying out a divine mission. Or it could be a way to rally support from his religious-right backers at a time when his economic policies and war on Iran are causing his popularity to drop. Either way, Trump’s move seems designed to strengthen his political hand by portraying his opponents as enemies of God.
One disturbing aspect of Trump embracing the Clement prophecies is the suggestion that his authoritarian, media-controlling tendencies are God’s will. Part of the prophecy that Trump shared on social media Monday includes this:
…TIME Magazine will have no choice but to say what I want them to say. Newsweek, what I want to say. The View, what I want to say. Trump shall become a Trumpet, says the Lord. Trump shall become a trumpet. I will raise up the Trump to become a Trumpet…For I shall fill him with my spirit when he goes into office and there will be a praying man in the highest seat in your land.
In another prophecy included in the clip shared by Trump, Clement says:
For the spirit of God says, ‘Yes, he may have hot blood, but he will bring the walls of protection on this country in a greater way and the economy of this country shall change rapidly,’ says the Lord of Hosts….God says, ‘I will put at your helm for two terms a president that will pray, but he will not be a praying president when he starts. I will put him in office and then I will baptize him with the Holy Spirit and my power,’ says the Lord of Hosts.
Dominionist musician and MAGA activist Sean Feucht, who is partnering with the Trump administration on a series of religious revival events tied to the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, is celebrating. It’s not the first time Feucht has shared Clement’s prophecies about Trump; a year ago he wrote that Clement was “unbelievably accurate.”
Feucht’s claim about Clement’s accuracy is far from universally accepted. Many of Clement’s prophecies over the years did not come true, leading a number of Christian apologists to denounce him as a falseprophet. But when Clement died in 2016, New Apostolic Reformation figure Cindy Jacobs called him “one of the most anointed prophetic psalmists that I have ever known.”
In the prophecies Trump shared, Clement also predicted that God would raise up Bill Gates “to open up the gate of a financial realm for the church.” Not a lot of folks talking about that one, given that Gates is not exactly a favorite of the MAGA crowd.
Other outlets trumpeting Trump’s prophetic turn included Daystar Television Network and, not surprisingly, Clement’s House of Destiny, which frequently posts videos about Clement’s prophecies related to current events, including Trump’s efforts to undermine the U.N. and the release of the government’s UFO files.
In 2014, Right Wing Watch reported that Clement warned that Satan was attempting to put a “witch” with a “Jezebel spirit” in the White House and prophesied that God was raising up a leader who would “kill the giant of socialism” and “the giant of secular humanism.”
Clay Clark, the businessman who created the ReAwaken America tour that traveled the country in 2024 promoting far-right conspiracy theories, Christian nationalism, and Donald Trump, was convinced that he and Trump were the subjects of a vague 2013 prophecy from Clement about a man named Clark and another named Donald.
Long after his death, Clement’s prophecies tend to get put to lots of use. In 2019, for example, a right-wing pastor declared that Trump’s promised border wall was a “done deal” because it was part of Clements’ 2007 prophecy. This year, Jennifer LeClaire suggested that the election of New York City Mayor Zorhan Mamdani could be the fulfillment of Clement warning that the church would have to fight an “infiltration” of New York.
