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Backlash after Eric Trump thanks dad for keeping Budweiser trans free, Colin Kaepernick out of NFL and for ‘saving God’
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President Trump’s son Eric has provoked confusion and anger online from critics with comments on Tuesday painting his father’s movement as responsible for saving Christianity and religion in general, while claiming a divine hand led his father back to the White House.
“We’re saving Christianity. We’ve saving God,” Eric Trump said Tuesday on the Benny Show podcast. “We’ve saving the family unit. We’re saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead. We have a return to people going to church.”
Trump added that despite his dad’s recent jokes he won’t get into heaven, the president will in fact go to heaven for achievements such as the Israel-Hamas peace deal, arguing that Trump surviving an assassination attempt on the campaign trail was further proof of the Republican’s divine protection.
The comments, which came as Eric Trump was promoting his new memoir Under Siege, quickly prompted mockery and disdain online.
“We’ve moved rather quickly from ‘God saved Trump’ to ‘Trump is saving God,’ which I guess is the foundation of the new MAGA religion?” liberal podcaster Jon Favreau wrote on X in response.
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“They’re saving God?” Mike Inacay, a staffer for Democratic Senator Brian Schatz, added in a separate X post. “Maybe the most insane and offensive thing anyone can say.”
Even some conservatives took issue with Trump’s remarks.
“I audibly gasped when I heard him say this,” Trump 2020 staffer Lizzie Marbach wrote on X. “Look, I understand how a son wants nothing more than to believe their father is going to heaven. I understand he is proud of the work his dad is doing. But for the sake of people’s souls, we must be clear. God does not need saving.”
While Eric Trump’s comments generated criticism online his father has certainly endorsed the message of the book.
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“Don’t forget to get a copy of my son Eric’s book, ‘UNDER SIEGE,’ which is breaking records everywhere,” the president wrote on X on Tuesday of the book, which was released today. “It’s a phenomenal book, that’s a must read for everyone—Congratulations Eric, you deserve it!!!”
Eric Trump’s memoir details “gripping moments from his life as a vital part of America’s most powerful family,” according to the Trump Organization.
“From raids on his childhood home, Mar-a-Lago, to near assassination attempts, from Russiagate to cold and corrupt court rooms, the fake news media, censorship, and character smears—this wasn’t just an attack on a president, or even his family,” reads a post about the book on the Trump corporate website. “America itself was under siege.”
President Trump has long claimed a divine hand in his reelection, telling a campaign audience in October 2024 that he was shot because God wanted him to win the presidential election.