On Saturday’s The Weekend: Primetime, MS NOW hosts Antonia Hylton and Charles Coleman Jr. mixed for a exceptional escalation—from stylistic nitpicking to smearing a complete group of Christians as extremists.
After opening with a cultured apart about Trump’s current use of “God is nice,” which she mentioned had not beforehand been a part of his ‘linguistic repertoire,’” Hylton rapidly pivoted to a jaw-dropping—and wholly unsupported—declare: that Trump is surrounded by spiritual advisers who’re “telling him that he’s God,” or successfully God’s consultant on Earth.
Hylton provided no proof for the assertion, presenting it as a substitute as her private “learn” primarily based on following “extremist” Christian figures. However she didn’t identify a single adviser making such a declare—not to mention anybody actually telling Trump he’s God.
The section solely escalated from there.
Substitute co-host Charles Coleman Jr. took Hylton’s premise and broadened it right into a blanket indictment, declaring that this supposed “model of Christianity” is “undergirded with the notions of white nationalism and white supremacy.”
Hylton agreed: “Oh yeah.”
So within the span of a single section, MS NOW went from parsing Trump’s phrasing to portraying his Christian advisers as each blasphemous and racially extremist—with out providing concrete proof for both cost.
The cost can be onerous to sq. with actuality. Trump’s most outstanding religion adviser, Paula White, has lengthy been related to a racially various community of Pentecostal and Charismatic leaders, and for years pastored a congregation wherein non-white members made up a majority.
Hylton’s supposed proof level? A lighthearted comment from Rep. Troy Nehls—who shouldn’t be a non secular adviser to Trump—saying the president is “higher than sliced bread” and “virtually a second coming.”
“Virtually,” after all, means not. And paired with a “sliced bread” setup, the road reads as apparent hyperbole, not theology. However Hylton handled it as proof of “blasphemy,” asking, “Does it get any extra blasphemous than that?”
Again within the MSNBC days, nobody blinked when Newsweek revealed a provocative Obama the “Second Coming” cowl story in 2013, or when MSNBC contributor Michael Eric Dyson instructed “Obama is Jesus” to lots of his followers.
From there, the dialog spiraled into broader claims about exclusionary, “white” Christianity supposedly threatened by the Pope’s extra “inclusive” message.
Misplaced within the rush to sentence was any try and substantiate the core accusation—that Trump’s advisers are telling him he’s God—or to justify branding them as proponents of white supremacy.
Here is the transcript.
MS NOW
The Weekend: Primetime
4/18/26
6:32 am EDTANTONIA HYLTON: I’ve seen in current weeks that he has, just the best way he speaks about himself has truly shifted. He began saying issues like, God is nice. Anybody who has truly spent their life going to church is accustomed to that phrase.
CHARLES COLEMAN JR.: On a regular basis.
HYLTON: On a regular basis. That’s not one thing that is been a part of Trump’s, you realize, linguistic repertoire, I will say, for the final a number of many years of his life.
And so my learn of it, as a result of I observe a variety of the extremist type of right-wing Christian figures round him, is that he is surrounded by people who find themselves telling him that he’s God. That he’s mainly their consultant of God on Earth. Virtually that he’s their Pope, as a result of the Pope is the vicar of Christ for for Catholics.
And so, it is type of stuffed his head with all of this, and so it he does not see this as one thing that truly is dangerous with that base. He sees it as very in keeping with the message that he is type of like symbiotically fed to and acquired again from that base that he has so relied on.
And I feel proof of that’s like, take heed to Congressman Troy Nels speaking concerning the president on Capitol Hill on Thursday. Hearken to this.
TROY NEHLS: I imagine that Donald Trump is best than sliced bread. I feel he is he is virtually a second coming, in my humble opinion. I feel he is achieved a improbable job. He is obtained a really troublesome job. Pope’s obtained a tricky job. You already know, obtained points within the church. However Donald Trump has a really, very troublesome job to do. The hardest job on the earth.
HYLTON: The second coming. That could be a reference to the second coming of Christ. Yeah. I imply, does it get any extra blasphemous than that?
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COLEMAN: I feel that there is additionally one other actually essential level that lots of people do not essentially wish to contact on, and that’s, Antonia, you talked concerning the type of connection that he has to this group. Nevertheless it’s essential to know that it is a model of Christianity, if you wish to name it that, that could be very a lot so undergirded with the notions of white nationalism and white supremacy —
HYLTON: Oh yeah.
COLEMAN: Which is the way it goes, which is the way it works.
And in order that’s one of many very, very ugly components of what is not being mentioned right here. Is that for every little thing that you just wish to speak about by way of how sanctimonious you may really feel you’re being, or how blasphemous he could also be being on this second, the underlying theme right here is that it is a ideology that’s meant to push out different and to different as many individuals as doable for a really choose group of individuals in the USA.
HYLTON: And I feel that is a part of why they discover the Pope’s message so disturbing to them, as a result of they’re placing ahead a model of Christianity that’s white, very male-centered, whereas the Pope is extremely inclusive, and he is touring via Africa proper now.
