Speaker 1: This is absolutely tremendous. Donald Trump is fully turning on evangelicals
for his 2024 run as the race seems to be collapsing for Trump. We never count him
out. We know what happened in 2016, but Trump is in trouble here. Early trouble,
and evangelicals seem to be abandoning him, and he is now furious with the evangelicals.
This is part of that interview we looked at earlier where he appeared on the water
cooler with David Brody appearing by phone. Trump's new thing, He's on by by phone,
not by video. And here he is talking about the disloyalty of evangelical leaders who
have the audacity not to endorse Trump. Speaker 2: You are the ultimate fighter,
the ultimate counterpuncher, for sure. And that makes me think of evangelicals, why they loved
you twice in those elections. And you announce when you announce your candidacy, at least as it
stands now, some of these prominent evangelical leaders who backed you last time, they're not
yet willing to commit like Robert Jeffress is, not some others. It seems like many of them are
waiting to see how the field takes shape before backing anyone. What is your message to them?
Speaker 3: Well, I don't really care at all. Speaker 1: Oh, my goodness. Antifa
has gotten into Trump's audio. Speaker 3: As a sign of disloyalty. There's great
disloyalty in the world to politics, and that decided disloyalty because nobody, as you know,
and you would know better than anybody because you do such a great job, nobody has ever done
more for right to life than Donald Trump. I put three Supreme Court justices who all voted and
they got something that they've been fighting for for 64 years or many, many years, and nobody
thought they could win it. You know, they they won Roe v Wade. They won. They finally won. And,
you know, I got a little disappointed because I thought they could have fought much harder
during the election, during the 22 election, because, you know, they won and a lot of them
didn't fight or weren't really around to fight. And it did energize the Democrats.
Speaker 1: So it's a sign of disloyalty, says Trump, that these evangelical leaders won't come
out and support him. Now, here's the reality. It never made sense for evangelical Republicans
to support Donald Trump. It never made sense. And so now use whatever phrase you like. The chickens
are coming home to roost. What goes around comes around. The bill is come do whatever. This was
a sort of forced the impact all along for the evangelicals. They really didn't like Hillary.
They sort of wanted Ted Cruz. And then that didn't work out. And Trump called Ted Cruz's wife
ugly and things didn't go well. And ultimately they had Trump or Hillary as their choice.
And then it was Trump or Biden and Biden's Catholic. And a lot of evangelicals don't
like that either. And so they went with Trump overwhelmingly, but it never made sense. Look
at Trump's past behavior. Look at Trump's past statements, the extramarital affairs,
the profanity, the, you know, way that he has talked about women in the past. It doesn't align
with what the evangelicals want us to believe. Other Christian values now want us to believe is
doing some heavy lifting there, because are these really their values? That's kind of a different
question. Trump's policy, by the way, Trump's policies on health care and immigration aren't
really very Christian either. Based on what are more. More enlightened understandings of
what those Christian views are. And at the end of the day, the evangelicals now are saying to
themselves, we might not have to go with Trump. Let's not jump on the Trump train early, because
maybe somebody else will actually best Trump in the Republican primary. So the evangelicals
seemingly turning on Trump, Trump immediately turning on the evangelicals, because remember,
anyone who doesn't immediately, wholeheartedly and unanimously support Trump is being disloyal.
A couple weeks ago, it was the Jews being disloyal to Trump. Now it's the evangelicals. That's the
framing. That's the that's the black white thinking that people like Trump narcissist,
egomaniacs. That is the framing through which they interpret others actions. We're going to
take a very quick break. Make sure you subscribe to the YouTube channel at YouTube.com slash The
David Pakman Show. What a program we have for you today. One of our sponsors is Curiositystream the
best place to find and watch documentaries on politics, history, science, technology, nature,
you name it, they have it. Curiositystream has a deeper collection of documentaries than any
other streaming service. They add new titles every week, including exclusive award winning
films and shows you can't watch anywhere else. I just watched ancient engineering
fascinating insights into how stuff was built before modern technology and the Industrial
Revolution. You can watch Curiositystream on all of your devices. Phone, desktop Game console,
Smart TV. I'm always finding great documentaries on Curiositystream that I can't find on any other
platforms. It's really the only place to go for documentaries and they have a great deal for my
audience. You can get Curiositystream for an entire year for 15 bucks. That's a dollar 25 a
month. Go to curiositystream dot com slash Pacman and use the code Pacman. The link is down below.