Is Trump Literally the Antichrist?

Is This the Apocalypse? Enquiring Minds Want to Know!

A detail from “Sermons and Deeds of the Antichrist” by Luca Signorelli (Orvieto Cathedral fresco, 1500)

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So many rotten, terrible, and nasty things are happening so quickly at the moment, it is dizzying. Where to begin to explore it all? Here is an informal roster of some of the bad things.

The White House just removed the U.S. Constitution from its website. Elon Musk openly made a Nazi salute—doing it twice for emphasis—to celebrate Herr Trump’s victory. Eric Trump, runt of the litter, overtly flashed a Masonic / Illuminati hand signal at the family photo op. At the actual inauguration, Zuck couldn’t stop peeking at Bezos’ girfriend’s cleavage. Zuck looked like the guiltiest little boy in the universe (it must be a weird, vertiginous feeling to know you are choosing to do wrong at such a huge scale). The next day, many Meta users found they were suddenly following Trump and Vance and couldn’t unfollow them. George Bush and Musk also came up with some seriously bizarre face twitches for the occasion.

Clockwise from top left: Musk’s "Seig Heil,” Guilty Zuck, Eric’s Illuminati hand sign, pissed-off Trump-ers listening to Bishop Mariann Budde’s sermon on mercy.

The next day, Trump signed, with bravado, a bazillion executive orders: Men are now men and women are now women, once again, forever. Sacred gender duality preserved! Trump executive-ordered the price on eggs and other household good to go down, while raising the price on prescription drugs for old people. He assigned a mere $500 billion for the not-at-all-ominously-named Stargate, a new total digital AI surveillance system under the control of Oracle CEO and Christian fanatic Larry Ellison, one of Elon Musk’s mentors, with Sam Altman and others assisting. Pre-election, Ellison promised to build a total digital surveillance system that will keep all US citizens on their “best behavior” — neat! That is really the way to “own the libs.” And everyone else for that matter.

To add insult to injury, Ellison intends to unleash new mRNA vaccines to cure cancer or whatever. Certainly, there will be no ominous, gnarly side effects from these shots. They definitely won’t shed bizarre nanoparticles or harm the immune system in some unknown, nebulous way. MAGA is just totally winning, totally getting everything the MAGA people wanted — and much more, like omnipresent digital surveillance, a “final solution” for human freedom… a “Mark of the Beast” kind of thing.

I am currently reading theologian Matthew Fox’s Trump & the MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ (2024). Fox writes (I have added bold for emphasis):

The faux imitator of Christ—called the “great ape” by the church — will bring confusion to minds and hearts. “For false messiahs and false prophets will perform signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect” (Mk 13:21). “He will be a crowd-pleaser and will be worshipped like an idol.”

He will proclaim himself the benefactor and savior of the people and his bare feet signify poverty or trust of the poor—but beware. He is not a truth-teller. “In reality he is nothing other than a master of deceit, a lover of power, skilled in corruption, and driven by an insatiable ambition to stand above all.” The image on the podium of the Antichrist is a rider on a rearing horse: a symbol of boundless pride and a prophecy of a disastrous fall. (See Rev. 20:20).

“Those who allow themselves to be seduced and deceived by his words “will end up exchanging good for evil and evil for good, becoming lovers of pleasures and greedy for money, corrupt and immoral, and finally violent and homicidal… This is the totalitarian society of the Antichrist. Wicked men uniting to usurp the throne of God.”

This all seems relevant, except perhaps for the bare feet (Trump has mercifully spared us that so far). The actual references to Antichrist in the Bible are somewhat sparse. One major discussion of this archetype comes from St Paul in 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12:

Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers and sisters, not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by the teaching allegedly from us—whether by a prophecy or by word of mouth or by letter—asserting that the day of the Lord has already come. Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.

Don’t you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things? And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time. For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming. The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.

Perhaps it is becoming clear that, in the question of whether Trump might be the Antichrist, I find myself tilting toward the affirmative. Fox, in his book, equivocates, seeing Trump as one of many Antichrists, or perhaps a representation of Antichrist vibes, instead of the Antichrist. In the introduction, Caroline Myss speculates that Trump is an “Antichrist figure”:

If there is such a force as the Antichrist, and I believe there is, I believe that animating this dark presence requires a rising collective atmosphere of fear, lawlessness, entitlement, hatred, prejudice, and panic. … The Antichrist thrives in chaos and though he presents himself as the person best suited to calm the social waters, in truth, the Antichrist is an agent of chaos and turmoil. Indeed, the Antichrist requires that people suffer so that he can appear to be the redeemer.

At least for the purposes of this particular essay, I am playing with the idea that Trump is more than that: That he is, in fact, along with all of his assorted clan of Nazi-tinged, Illuminati-naughty psychopaths, the big “A” itself.

Reading this, you might ask (I certainly do): Why does it even matter at this point?

Somebody has to “call a spade, a spade.” I mean, if it walks like a duck and acts like a duck, it might be a duck. If we get this Antichrist stuff out in the open—cat out of bag—we can start to talk about it, at least. Perhaps (fat chance) we can even “turn the tables” on the mind-controlled MAGA masses, who might realize they were duped, hoodwinked, sold up the river, and so on.

In his book, Fox makes much of Luca Signorelli’s Sermons and Deeds of the Antichrist (1500), one of the frescos he painted for the Orvieto Cathedral, which, apparently, had a major impact on Sigmund Freud. The fresco features a figure who looks like a cross between Christ and Trump, with Satan whispering in his ear and controlling him. The background of the fresco features lots of SS or ninja-looking black-clad assassins and awful things happening to people resisting the Antichrist’s doctrine. Seems like the kind of stuff that will never ever happen here.

I find myself in a good position to examine this Antichrist material in a blunt and straightforward manner, based on my past work. I explored Carl Jung’s work on archetypes and studied the Judeo-Christian apocalypse along with the prophecies of the Aztec, Maya, Hopi in my book Quetzalcoatl Returns (originally published as 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl). I felt we were, indeed, entering the time of Apocalypse, all things considered.

Both Fox and I cite The Apocalypse Archetype by Jungian scholar Edward Edinger. Edinger saw the apocalypse archetype “constellating very powerfully” in our time, in both the individual and the collective Psyche. For Edinger, the psychological meaning of the apocalypse is “the momentous event of the coming of the Self into conscious realization. This is what the content of the Apocalypse archetype presents: the shattering of the world as it has been, followed by its reconstitution.” The horrors of the Apocalypse are meant to lead to something better: Revelation, resurrection, New Jerusalem.

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Next month, I am offering a seminar on the occult philosopher Rudolf Steiner. Steiner wrote about Lucifer and Ahriman as occult beings or forces that work constantly on humanity, diverting us from our proper path of development. Ahriman is the evil Earth spirit, from Zoroastrianism, who seeks to imprison humanity in sterile materialism and hyper-rationality via mechanized technology. Steiner foresaw a literal incarnation of Ahriman as we reach the end of this world-incarnation or Aeon. Elon Musk is an almost too-perfect candidate for Ahriman’s incarnation.

Let’s admit it: We’re engulfed in a text-book psychedelic bad-trip cartoon caricature of the prophesied Apocalypse.