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The Trump campaign recently shared a fan-made \u201cSo God made Trump\u201d ad that models itself after the Ram Trucks\u2019s \u201cSo God made a farmer<\/a>\u201d campaign. The original ad featured a speech by conservative broadcaster Paul Harvey to the Future Farmers of America in 1978. The fan-made ad begins, \u201cAnd on June 14th, 1946, God looked down on his plan Paradise, and said, I need a caretaker. So God gave us Trump.\u201d According to the ad, God needed someone to, \u201cFix this country. Work all day. Fight the Marxists. Eat supper. Then go to the Oval Office and stay past midnight. And a meeting of the heads of state.\u201d It also went on to list a number of the former president\u2019s achievements, such as going into North Korea and being able to \u201cmake money from the tar of the sand turned liquid to gold.\u201d It also painted Trump in a number of messianic terms, referring to him as \u201cA shepherd to mankind who will never leave nor forsake them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ad was created by the Dilley Meme Team<\/a>, which is unaffiliated with Trump\u2019s campaign and states its mission is to \u201cMake America great again by any memes necessary.\u201d It features a number of humorous and over-the-top memes and videos. Trump\u2019s critics were quick to lambast his Truth Social account for sharing the ad, with CNN<\/em><\/a> political pundit Karen Finney watching the video in stunned disbelief on a segment. \u201cKaren, your jaw is dropping,\u201d noted anchor Jim Acosta. CNN\u2019s<\/em> Ana Navarro said she was not surprised by the messianic overtones. \u201cThis is not new, right? These are the same evangelicals who somehow justified to themselves voting for a guy in 2016 who we all heard boast on video, we all heard him in his own voice, boasting about committing sexual assault,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t just Trump\u2019s usual critics who went after the ad. A group of Iowa pastors also denounced the ad, with Michael Demastus, pastor of the Fort Des Moines Church of Christ flatly saying<\/a>, \u201cTrump is not the Messiah.\u201d Demastus has supported Trump in the past but noted that he and other pastors found the ad \u201coffensive.\u201d Another pastor, Terry Amann, pastor of the Church of the Way in Des Moines, accused the video of being demeaning. \u201c[The video] demeans Christianity, Trump and the people who made it. It says a lot about the people around Trump and their \u2018worldly\u2019 understanding of Christianity,\u201d he said. Evangelicals, particularly in Iowa, are a key group for Trump to lock in as he seeks to clinch his nomination for the GOP with a strong showing at the upcoming Iowa Caucuses. The National Review<\/em><\/a>, however, doubted whether the ad would have much of an impact against the \u201ccult of personality\u201d surrounding Trump. \u201cMost Republican primary voters will probably dismiss this bizarre display as one of many, indicative of little more than Trump\u2019s, let\u2019s say, eccentricities. If, however, you\u2019re more inclined to accuse those who object to this profane impiety of succumbing to \u2018Trump Derangement Syndrome\u2019 or the like, you\u2019re not doing much to dispel the charge that the GOP is organized entirely around hero worship.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Trump campaign recently shared a fan-made \u201cSo God made Trump\u201d ad that models itself after the Ram Trucks\u2019s \u201cSo God made a farmer\u201d campaign. The original ad featured a speech by conservative broadcaster Paul Harvey to the Future Farmers of America in 1978. 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