With Donald Trump expected to meet with evangelical leaders on Friday, The Atlantic’s McKay Coppins claimed on MS NOW on Friday that they may already be looking past him since he's a “lame duck.”
Speaking with “Money Power Politics,” host Stephanie Ruhle, Coppins, who has written extensively on the intersection between religion and politics, claimed Trump’s “act” has been wearing thin within the Christian community.
“Donald Trump delivered on a lot of the big issues that social conservatives cared about, but Donald Trump is now entering his lame-duck stage and he hates to hear us talk about that,” Coppins reported before elaborating, “That's the kind of thing that you know gnaws at him: the idea that he is fading in relevance.”
“But he is,“ he asserted. “Evangelicals are looking to the future and they're starting to wonder, ‘Do we have to keep supporting everything he does? Do we have to, you know, be zealous adherents to this cult of personality?'”
“Maybe not and you see, you know, you noted some of the issues that are dividing evangelicals, certainly the war in Iran is a big one,” he added. “We saw Tucker Carlson recently say that he's leaving the GOP over the war in Iran. Now I would not say Tucker Carlson is this really important evangelical, but he has a lot of evangelical fans, a lot of listeners to his podcast. But also, I think, look. Donald Trump wears thin after a while. For evangelicals, immigration and refugee issues have actually been deceptively divisive.”