Tucker Carlson blasts Trump's 'vile' Easter post, Paula White's 'sacrilege' at WH lunch: 'Deal-killer'

By Jon Brown, Christian Post Reporter Tuesday, April 07, 2026

Political commentator Tucker Carlson on Monday denounced President Donald Trump's profane, bellicose social media post on Easter as "vile" and warned that Trump's spiritual advisers, such as Paula White-Cain, might have convinced him that he plays an eschatological role.

"How dare you speak that way on Easter morning to the country?" Carlson said on his eponymous podcast. "Who do you think you are? You're tweeting out the F-word on Easter morning."

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Carlson was responding to Trump's Sunday morning post to Truth Social, in which he used profanity and threatened catastrophic military action against Iran while mocking the god of Islam.

Using an "F-bomb" to communicate his message just after 8 a.m. EST on Sunday morning, Trump wrote: "Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the F— Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell — JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah."

In one of the most severe and personal denunciations he has made of the president, Carlson questioned if Trump has deliberately chosen to reject the restraints placed on him by God and Christian morality, noting the sacrilegious nature of threatening to destroy civilian infrastructure and unleash death on the day that Christians commemorate Jesus Christ conquering death.

Claiming he at first thought the post must be fake, Carlson said Trump's post was "vile on every level," an affront to Christians on their holiest day and "revealing" of the president's heart, which he warned appears to have drifted into dangerous hubris.

"'You'll be living in hell,' as if Hell is a place," Carlson said. "Hell is a condition, and this is an example of that condition."

While Trump's mockery of the Islamic god prompted praise from some Christian figures, who likened his rhetoric to Elijah mocking the prophets of Baal, Carlson questioned the prudence of a U.S. president scoffing at the world's second-largest religion, regardless of whether Islam is true.

Carlson warned that such a tactic threatens to add an inflammatory religious element to the Iran conflict, which has already raised concerns regarding the influence religion and especially eschatology are playing in it. He suggested that mocking faith of any kind is symptomatic of an arrogance that fails to acknowledge "that we are not in charge of the universe."

"So obviously you're mocking the religion," Carlson said. "If you seek a religious war, that's a good idea. But by the way, no decent person mocks other people's religions. You may have a problem with the theology, presumably you do, if it's not your religion, and you can explain what that is. But to mock other people's faith is to mock the idea of faith itself."

"The message of all faith, at the biggest-picture level, is the message in our Bible, which is: you are not God. And only if you think you are, do you talk this way. But it's not just mockery of Islam. And no president should mock Islam. That's not your job. This is not a theocracy. We don't go to war with other theocracies to find out which theocracy is more effective. We are not a theocracy."

"No, this is a mockery, not just of Islam, it's a mockery of Christianity. To send out a tweet with the F-word on Easter morning, promising the murder of civilians and then saying, 'Praise be to Allah,' without explaining any of it? You are mocking me and every other Christian because we're Christians. Oh, I get it."

Carlson said Americans "under no circumstances" can support such rhetoric from their president, regardless of whether they support him on other issues. "That is an intentional desecration of beauty and truth, which is the definition of evil," he said, warning that the "end goal" of such evil could lead to the use of nuclear weapons and mass destruction.

Carlson also raised concerns regarding the role Trump's religious advisers might be playing in encouraging such behavior by potentially leading him to believe that he is especially favored by God and destined to play a major role in fulfilling biblical prophecy.

After playing a clip of televangelist and Trump spiritual adviser Paula White-Cain's controversial remarks at the White House's Easter luncheon last Wednesday, when she likened Trump's political trajectory to the suffering and resurrection of Jesus Christ, Carlson said it was "hard to believe that's real."

After repeatedly implying she received special revelation from the Holy Spirit, White-Cain told Trump last week that she believes the Lord told her to inform him that "because of His victory, you will be victorious in all you put your hand to."

White-Cain drew widespread criticism and allegations of blasphemy for blending the message of the Gospel with Trump's temporal success, as did the other prominent Christian leaders at the luncheon who did not publicly object to her characterization.

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"That is so vile, it's such a sacrilege: standing in front of American flags in the White House with some kind of beta Evangelical leader [Robert Jeffress] nodding along as you liken the president of the United States to Jesus, the Christian Messiah, God in human form," Carlson said.

"How could you say something like that? How could the rest of us sit by and not protest when she said something like that? How could any Christian watch that and not feel revulsion? Well, because people didn't pay attention or they didn't think about it."

Carlson suggested Americans would be unwise to dismiss figures such as White-Cain, who he warned could be invoking real spiritual darkness with their "ludicrous" teachings.

"Is it possible the president sees this in bigger terms, sees this as the fulfillment of something, or the elevation to some higher office beyond president of the United States? That's entirely possible."

Carlson said many American Christians are led astray by leaders like White-Cain because they are biblically illiterate, and he warned that likening any president to Christ is crossing a dangerous line.

"But to compare him or any president to Jesus has got to be a deal-killer. That is the end. You cannot allow that in good faith. If you're a Christian, you have to say no to that," he said.

Carlson, who tried in vain to dissuade Trump from attacking Iran during an Oval Office visit in February, has been an increasingly outspoken critic of the president he once campaigned for. On Tuesday, Trump dismissed Carlson as "a low-IQ person that has absolutely no idea what's going on," according to the New York Post.

"He calls me all the time; I don't respond to his calls. I don't deal with him. I like dealing with smart people, not fools," Trump added.

Carlson's criticisms come as Trump's political base fractures over the Iran conflict, which some of his staunchest, longtime supporters have described as a betrayal of his original platform to avoid the Middle Eastern wars that have entangled the United States for the past 25 years.

"Everyone in his administration that claims to be a Christian needs to fall on their knees and beg forgiveness from God and stop worshipping the President and intervene in Trump's madness," former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., once one of Trump's fiercest advocates, said Sunday.

"This is not making America great again, this is evil," added Greene, who called on Trump to be removed from office by his own cabinet under the 25th Amendment after he threatened that Iran's "whole civilization will die tonight" if a deal is not reached to reopen the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday.