"“I view Trump as chemo,” Wilson told The Financial Times. “America has cancer. Trump is toxic, and I think he's killing the cancer faster than he's killing the rest of us.” Wilson told reporter Joe Miller that he was a latecomer to the MAGA movement and did not vote for Trump in 2016. “I didn't believe Trump at all, for all the obvious reasons. He was and is an ungodly man.”"
"“I didn't believe Trump at all, for all the obvious reasons. He was and is an ungodly man. He's a natural man, a carnal man, a blasphemous man,” Wilson said. The pastor said he had a change of heart and voted for Trump in 2020 and 2024 because the president kept his promise to appoint conservative Supreme Court justices. Among his controversial views, Wilson has suggested it would have been better to be born a Black slave in 19th-century Charleston, South Carolina, than to be aborted as a Black baby in a 21st-century city."
"“You've got to say disreputable things that are outside the boundaries of acceptable discourse because that's the only way you can get purchase to move the window at all,” Wilson said, adding that he delights in deploying bait statements crafted to be provocative enough to start an argument he is confident he can win. Now a slew of senior US officials are connected to his denomination, including Hegseth, who joined in Tennessee, Miller wrote."
"Trump staffers worship at the new DC outpost of Wilson's Christ Church — “its mission to Babylon'” — just blocks from the US Capitol. American Moment, which vets young conservatives for White House jobs, is run by a congregant. Wilson preached at one of Hegseth's month"
Doug Wilson, a Christian nationalist pastor, characterizes President Donald Trump as a toxic panacea for America, comparing him to chemo that kills cancer faster than the rest of the body. Wilson says he did not support Trump in 2016, calling him ungodly, but later voted for Trump in 2020 and 2024 after Trump appointed conservative Supreme Court justices. Wilson has promoted controversial positions including preferring that a Black person be born into slavery in 19th-century Charleston rather than be aborted as a Black baby in a modern city. He also advocates restricting married women from voting, restoring anti-sodomy laws, and allowing slavery while supporting its abolition. He claims provocative statements are necessary to shift acceptable discourse and says he uses bait statements to start arguments he expects to win. Senior U.S. officials connected to his denomination include Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Trump staffers are described as worshiping at Wilson’s church near the U.S. Capitol.
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