Ex-GOP insider reveals why Trump’s AI Jesus keeps him up at night: 'He wants your worship'

Former Republican strategist Rick Wilson shared just why President Donald Trump's decision to share an image of himself posed as Jesus "raising someone who looks a lot like Jeffrey Epstein from the dead," troubles him. The co-founder of The Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump organization, discussed in his Substack on Tuesday why Trump's latest move was not only unsettling, but analyzed just how "the entire scam" has played out among MAGA and Christian followers who supported Trump. "Now, it’s been a minute since Divinity class, but I know my Bible well enough to know that what we’re looking at here is either the greatest act of accidental self-own in the history of organized religion, or, and bear with me here, a slow-roll confirmation of the one prophecy nobody in MAGA land bothered to read before slapping on the red hat," Wilson wrote. "He might be the Antichrist," Wilson wrote. "And I mean that with exactly as much comedy and as much genuine theological dread as you think I do." Trump's rise to power was propped up by a number of supporters, including the religious right. "Trump has been sold to evangelicals (and a damn good percentage of Catholics) as America as a vessel of divine providence," Wilson explained. "The man with three wives, the hush money, the Epstein mess, the whores, the sexual abuse, the porn stars, the casinos, the fraud judgments, the scams and rip-offs, the gleeful cruelty, this is the man God chose." MAGA was convinced Trump was essentially their guy, Wilson argued. "That’s the pitch. With a straight face. From pulpits. Joel Osteen has several private jets and a house the size of Rhode Island because he and others like Franklin Graham sold you this guy. Think on that," Wilson wrote. But the meme that sparked public outrage this week has led to more revelations about who Trump really is — and what he really desires, according to Wilson."Here’s the thing about the Jesus meme that keeps me up at night, not the blasphemy of it (though, sure, that too), but the demand it represents. The man doesn’t just want your vote. He wants your worship. He wants to be the thing you kneel before. He has always wanted that," Wilson added.