THE JESUS LIE
TRUMP’S ULTERIOR MOTIVE EXPOSED
The United States struck Nigeria on Christmas Day, a date chosen with the kind of theatrical flourish that tells you the symbolism mattered more than the strategy. The official justification that Christians were being massacred dissolved almost instantly under scrutiny.
Regional security analysts, Nigerian political scholars, and conflict‑zone researchers said it plainly: the violence in northwest Nigeria is real, but it is not a religious genocide. Christians and Muslims have been dying in equal measure for years. Nothing in the intelligence, nothing in the reporting, nothing in the lived reality of Nigerians supports the president’s apocalyptic framing.
And yet he delivered the strike as if he were answering a biblical summons, a warrior‑king stepping into a prophecy only he could see.
That disconnect is the key. The strike wasn’t designed to solve a crisis in Nigeria. It was designed to solve a crisis at home. A crisis of narrative, loyalty, and myth. For years, Christian nationalists have cast him in the role of the flawed but divinely chosen ruler, the modern Cyrus, the pagan king from the Book of Isaiah who, despite his moral failings, was said to be used by God to protect the faithful.
In that worldview, righteousness is irrelevant. Purity is irrelevant. Only usefulness matters. A leader can be profane, corrupt, even openly immoral, and still be seen as God’s instrument if he appears to fight on behalf of Christians.
Once you understand that myth, everything else snaps into place. In that story, facts are irrelevant. Symbolic gestures are everything. A Christmas strike against “enemies of Christians” fits perfectly into the script his base already believes. It doesn’t matter that the premise is false. In fact, the falseness strengthens the myth. If experts contradict him, it proves he is persecuted. If the world doubts him, it proves he is chosen. If his past is exposed, it proves he is being attacked for doing God’s work.
And the timing is no accident. The Epstein files are spilling into the news cycle, dragging old shadows into daylight, and the president’s irritation is visible in every interview. He couldn’t stop the release. He couldn’t control the narrative. But he could change the subject.
A sudden, dramatic military strike wrapped in religious language, delivered on the holiest night of the Christian calendar, was the perfect diversion. It shifted the conversation from scandal to salvation, from exposure to righteousness, from the past he fears to the myth he is depending on.
Analysts kept circling the same questions. Why Nigeria, and why now? They couldn’t find a strategic reason. They couldn’t find a factual one. They couldn’t find a military one. But the political logic is unmistakable. The strike wasn’t aimed at militants. It was aimed at the American audience that sees him as a vessel of divine will, the only leader willing to wield holy violence on their behalf.
It was a message to his most loyal followers, a reminder of the myth they’ve built around him, and a desperate attempt to bury the past he knows is coming for him.
He was also speaking directly to the donor class Christian nationalists. The ultra‑wealthy patrons who fund megachurch networks, media ecosystems, political PACs, and culture war infrastructure. The small circle of billionaires who see politics not as governance but as spiritual warfare. People who believe America has a divine mandate and that leaders are chosen not for their virtue but for their usefulness in advancing a Christianized state.
People who view foreign policy through the lens of prophecy, persecution narratives, and the idea that America must defend Christians globally as part of its sacred role. All across the country the MAGA faithful will shrug off the Epstein revelations and double down on their savior, Donald Trump.
In the end, the strike reveals something far more unsettling than a misjudged foreign policy decision. It shows a president willing to bomb a foreign nation, kill human beings, and burn through vast sums of public money simply to hold the attention of his most fervent believers and to smother the scandals he can no longer outrun.
It was religious spectacle. A violent performance staged to keep a myth alive and a reckoning at bay. A gambit to shore up his base and calm his fear of losing the wealthiest Christian nationalists’ support as the truth of his past finally comes to light.
This strategic performance makes the work of saving our country even harder, and even more urgent. _
Sources: USA Today, Channel News Asia, Africanews, Wikipedia. #douglasarthurjohnson **SUBSCRIBE AND SHARE**