Donald Trump is once again mixing politics, religion, and his favorite election grievance — and this time, he brought Jesus Christ into the ballot count.
The president raised eyebrows with a bizarre new claim that he would have won deep-blue California in the 2024 election if Jesus himself had come down to count the votes.
The jaw-dropping remark came as Trump spoke to reporters before boarding Air Force One for a trip to Connecticut, where he was scheduled to deliver a commencement address at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. The conversation began with a question about reality TV star Spencer Pratt’s possible mayoral ambitions in California — but Trump quickly veered into familiar territory: unfounded claims about rigged elections.
After saying he hoped Pratt would “do well,” Trump launched into a rant about California’s voting system.
“If you have a rigged vote out there, that’s the problem,” Trump said. “The votes are rigged. You have a really rigged vote in California. You have all the mail-in ballots, everything else. Very hard to win because the elections are very dishonest.”
Then came the line that instantly set off political chatter.
“If we had Jesus Christ come down and count the votes, I would have won California,” Trump declared, adding that he believes he performs well with Hispanic voters.
The claim landed with a thud for critics, especially given California’s actual election numbers. Trump lost the state to Kamala Harris in 2024 by 20 percentage points. He also lost California to Joe Biden by 29 points in 2020 and to Hillary Clinton by roughly 30 points in 2016.
In other words, even divine intervention would have needed a pretty aggressive swing-state strategy.
Trump’s latest remark also comes after a string of religiously charged moments that have left critics accusing him of using Christian imagery to flatter himself and fire up his base.
In April, Trump shared an AI-generated image showing him being embraced by Jesus against a patriotic American flag backdrop. He captioned it, “The Radical Left Lunatics might not like this, but I think it is quite nice!!!”
The image sparked immediate backlash online.
“Trump is posting fresh blasphemies this morning,” one critic wrote.
Another begged, “Can someone please, for the love of God, take away Trump’s iPhone.”
That controversy came shortly after Trump posted another AI-generated image that many viewers believed depicted him as Jesus Christ. In the image, Trump appeared in red and white robes, seemingly healing a man while an American flag waved behind him.
After critics pounced, Trump denied that the image was supposed to portray him as Jesus. Instead, he claimed it showed him as a doctor or Red Cross worker.
“I thought it was me as a doctor, and had to do with Red Cross,” Trump told reporters outside the White House. “It’s supposed to be me as a doctor making people better, and I do make people better. I make people a lot better.”
The explanation did little to quiet those who saw the image as another example of Trump wrapping himself in religious symbolism while continuing to push conspiracy-laced claims about elections.
Despite winning the 2024 presidential race, Trump has continued to complain about states he lost, especially California, where Democrats have dominated presidential elections for decades. No Republican has carried the state in a presidential election since George H.W. Bush in 1988.
Still, Trump’s comments show how central election distrust remains to his political identity — even after returning to the White House.
The president has repeatedly leaned into religion while talking about American life, at one point saying, “I think religion’s very important for a country. This country was built largely on religion.”
He also claimed that stronger religious belief leads to less crime, saying people may avoid wrongdoing because they want to go to heaven.
But when it comes to his own final destination, Trump has sounded less certain.
Earlier this year, he admitted he was unsure whether he was “heaven-bound.”
“I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One,” Trump said. “I’m not sure I’m gonna be able to make heaven. But I’ve made life a lot better for a lot of people.”
For Democrats and Trump critics, the latest Jesus remark is likely to be seen as another example of the president turning faith into political theater. For his supporters, it may simply be another Trump-style flourish — outrageous, headline-grabbing, and perfectly designed to dominate the news cycle.
Either way, Trump’s message was clear: even after winning the presidency, he still cannot stop relitigating the states he lost.
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Because he’s a fraud and a liar.
Probably true, the imaginary evil criminal murderer Jesus/Mohammad storybook character would likely do whatever he was paid to do!
Fortunately he was arrested, tried, found guilty, and hung for his numerous crimes…