ABSTRACT
White Christian supremacy broadcasts contradictory views of racial apocalypticism. President Trump courted those who believed that the apocalypse was imminent, inevitable, and desirable, and he positioned himself as the steward of a powerful Christian nation who would lead its citizens in the providentially ordained effort to fashion God’s universal kingdom on Earth as it is in Heaven starting in the present moment, particularly by identifying the enemies of the Christian nation and bringing them into submission. The president did not bring about a total existential crisis, though his administration’s responses to disasters and emergencies were severely wanting, nor did he usher in an age of the mass conversion of the Jews or the eradication of Muslims. By locating segregationist and assimilationist racist ideologies of the early modern era in modern political discourse, it is the author hope that new discussions on the intersection of race, religion, and politics might emerge.
