Trump would have made fun his evangelical supporters for years behind closed doors.
In 2020, Michael Cohen wrote in his book Disloyal what Trump really thought of his evangelical supporters:
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In Disloyal, released today, Cohen shows what a master deceiver Trump is. He quotes Trump calling Christianity and its religious practices “bullshit,” then shortly after masterfully portraying himself as a devout believer. In truth, Cohen writes, Trump’s religion is an unbridled lust for money and power at all costs for others.
Cohen’s insider stories add significant depth to my own documentation of Trump’s public and repeated denunciations of Christians as “fools,” “idiots,” and “assholes.”
Trump views evangelical pastors as crooks he admires.
Trump has no faith in his body, and these performative displays by right-wing evangelical Christians bore him.
America finally got to see what Trump really thinks of his evangelical supporters at the White House on Friday.
Evangelicals formed their circle around Trump, who sat at his desk in the Oval Office, and they sang his praises in the most pious terms.
Evangelicals like Trump’s “spiritual advisor,” Paula Reid, have been utterly humiliated.