Trump announces chilling new measures to ‘eradicate anti-Christian bias’ in the US

US President Donald Trump has announced the creation of a White House faith office to be led by a controversial televangelist, and set up a task force with a chilling mission to “eradicate anti-Christian bias.”

On Thursday (6 February), Trump announced a presidential commission to protect Christians from religious discrimination through the creation of a White House faith office, led by Rev. Paula White, who previously called the Black Lives Matter movement “the anti-Christ.”

During his address to the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, Trump set out his plans to protect Christians. 

‘We will bring our country back together as one nation under God’

He said: “While I’m in the White House, we will protect Christians in our schools, in our military, in our government, in our workplaces, hospitals and in our public squares. 

“And we will bring our country back together as one nation under God.

Trump said the presidential commission on religious liberty “will work tirelessly to uphold this most fundamental right.”

He added that an executive order would be signed to make Attorney General Pam Bondi head of a task force to “eradicate anti-Christian bias” and stop “all forms of anti-Christian targeting and discrimination within the federal government.” 

On Thursday afternoon, after the Prayer Breakfast, he signed an executive order littered with anti LGBTQ+ rhetoric, which he claimed will address what he called an “egregious pattern of targeting peaceful Christians,” which he alleges occurred under the Biden Administration.

In the executive order, Trump repeats the false claim that “the Biden Administration declared March 31, 2024 — Easter Sunday — as Transgender Day of Visibility.” The two observances simply happened to fall on the same day that year: the latter is a moving feast day which can fall on any Sunday between March 22 and April 25.”

What religion is Donald Trump?

For much of his career, Trump identified as a Presbyterian, a mainstream Protestant Christian denomination.

However, in a 2020 interview, Trump said that he no longer identifies as a Presbyterian and described himself as a non-denominational Christian.

Non-denominational Christians are not affiliated with a specific Christian denomination, but they tend to share core Christian beliefs. 

Over the years Trump has cosied up to many evangelical Christian leaders, including prominent, wealthy right-wing evangelicals like American Values president Gary Bauer, and Family Research Council president Tony Perkins.

Family Research Council has been designated an anti-LGBTQ+ hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, and Tony Perkins, a former police officer, has repeatedly claimed that LGBTQ+ people are more likely to be paedophiles.

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