Can Christians Still Support Trump? — The Nicki Minaj Remarks —14 Gates Series | 30 October 2026
This week a post addressed to "Christian America" was forwarded to me by a believer. It has drawn more than 70,000 reactions. It takes President Trump's remark about Nicki Minaj at his rally in Port Huron, Michigan, on 25 October, and asks Christians how they can go on defending a married man who speaks like that in public. It charges them with hypocrisy, demanding accountability from his opponents and discovering grace for their own man, and it ends with a dare: stand up and say you will no longer defend him.
The facts in the post are accurate, though they lack context. Nicki Minaj stood and waved to the cheers and gave Trump a thumbs up. She has also made an industry of her figure, from the Anaconda video in 2014, which celebrated it, to her own public account of having it enhanced with illegal injections. Context matters: had the same words been spoken of the Vice President’s wife, they would have been grotesque. However, context does not change the verdict. The remark was crude, made in public by a married man who holds the highest office in the land, and there is no room among Christians for sexualised talk or for condoning it.
Let no foul or polluting language, nor evil word nor unwholesome or worthless talk [ever] come out of your mouth. Ephesians 4:29, Amplified.
That settles one question. The post wants to use this to settle a second, more important question: whether a Christian may support this ruler at all. In effect, it says do not vote for Trump, because he has fallen short. Two questions have been fused into one, and Scripture keeps them apart. It names the sin of rulers without flinching, and in the same pages it shows God raising up, using and commanding prayer for rulers who were nowhere near righteous.
Cyrus was a Persian emperor who did not worship the God of Israel, and yet he is the only Gentile in Scripture whom God calls mashiach, anointed:
Thus says the Lord to His anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held to subdue nations before him, and I will unarm and ungird the loins of kings to open doors before him, so that gates will not be shut. Isaiah 45:1, Amplified.
The Lord says of him three verses later, I have surnamed you, though you have not known Me. The anointing was for a task. Cyrus sent the exiles home, returned the vessels of the house of God and paid for the temple to be rebuilt.
The judges of Israel tell the same story. Samson, Jephthah and Gideon all failed visibly, and Hebrews 11 still lists them among the heroes of faith, because God measured them by the deliverance He worked through them.
In 2016 Lance Wallnau called Donald Trump God’s chaos candidate, a man with no religious credentials raised to hold back a tide. Within a few years three justices he appointed sat in the majority that overturned Roe v. Wade, and on his return in January 2025 he pardoned the pro-life Christians who had been sent to prison for blocking clinic doors. The church may thank God for that record without endorsing everything he may say.
What, then, is the church to do when the conduct is sin and the ruler is still the ruler? David took another man’s wife and arranged that man’s death, and God sent a prophet:
Then Nathan said to David, You are the man! 2 Samuel 12:7, Amplified.
Nathan named the sin to the king’s face and stayed at his post. A few chapters later David’s son Absalom sat at the gate, met everyone who came to the king for judgment, and told them there was no one in the king’s house to hear them:
So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel. 2 Samuel 15:6, Amplified.
Both men saw the king’s failures, and they did very different things with them. Ordinary criticism of a ruler is not rebellion, and many who question the President may do so in good faith. The distinction lies in what the criticism is used for. Nathan rebuked the king in order to restore him. Absalom used the king’s real failures to take the gate for himself, which is why the church still speaks of an Absalom spirit. The church’s place before a ruler is in the spirit and power of Nathan. We may speak to the king, in the right spirit, and we stay at our post.
The post is right about one thing. Where pastors and prophets call coarse talk harmless banter, they have left Nathan’s post and become courtiers and sycophants. Paul gives us the plumb line: the church judges those inside it by the standard of the house, and it weighs a civil ruler by the fruit of his government. The qualifications for an elder in 1 Timothy 3 were never written for a magistrate or ruler.
The strongest verse that could be raised against this position is the rebuke Jehoshaphat received when he came home from battle:
Should you help the ungodly and love those who hate the Lord? (2 Chronicles 19:2).
Jehoshaphat had joined Ahab in Ahab’s own war, on Ahab’s terms. Ahab built the house of Baal in Samaria and did more evil in the sight of the Lord than all the kings before him. Jehoshaphat was rebuked for putting himself under the agenda of the house of Baal. That is the test for any alliance with a government: whose altar does it advance? A believer who votes for a ruler who protects the unborn and the freedom of the church has not joined Ahab’s war.
Then weigh the matters, as Jesus told the Pharisees clearly:
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you give a tenth of your mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected and omitted the weightier (more important) matters of the Law—right and justice and mercy and fidelity. These you ought [particularly] to have done, without neglecting the others. You blind guides, filtering out a gnat and gulping down a camel! Matthew 23:23-24, Amplified.
On one side of the scale is a crude remark. On the other are the life of the unborn child, the protection of children, the freedom of the church to preach and gather, justice and safety on our streets. In 2022 a Pennsylvania father who prayed outside an abortion clinic had his home raided by federal agents at dawn in front of his children, and a jury acquitted him. The following year an FBI field office produced a memo treating traditional Catholics as a potential terrorism concern. In New York, a mayor sworn in this January campaigned on doubling city funding for abortion access and supports the boycott movement against Israel. A Christian who weighs the remark against all of that and concludes that the weightier matters lie elsewhere is doing what Matthew 23 commands.
The church fails its rulers in two directions. Some Christians crown a president their saviour, and that is idolatry. Others demand that a ruler be a saint before they will lift a finger for him, and when no saint appears on the ballot they stay at home. Both lay on a man a weight only Christ can carry. The Preacher warned against the second error:
Be not [morbidly exacting and externally] righteous overmuch, neither strive to make yourself [pretentiously appear] overwise—why should you [get puffed up and] destroy yourself [with presumptuous self-sufficiency]? Ecclesiastes 7:16, Amplified.
Reject Churchill because he smokes and insults people, and Hitler walks in through the unguarded gate. The church may rightly expect much less than a saviour and much more than nothing: alignment on the matters that touch the house of God, a voice at the table when the laws of the land are written, and room to lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness. In business we have a saying for it: not in the room, not in the deal.
That is why posts like this one matter more than the remark they describe. A partly true moral charge, pressed hard a few days before an election, does not need to be false to do its work. It leads the believer to conclude that he cannot in conscience vote, cannot stand at a rally to hear more, and had better keep his hands clean and stay at home. Whatever the writer intended, that is the effect. The church is rarely put to sleep by persecution. It is put to sleep by a conscience taught to treat engagement itself as compromise. Mordecai answered that conscience long ago:
For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance shall arise for the Jews from elsewhere, but you and your father's house will perish. And who knows but that you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this and for this very occasion? Esther 4:14, Amplified.
This is not only an American question. In June 2025 the House of Commons voted 314 to 291 for a bill to let doctors in England and Wales help terminally ill patients end their lives. The bill ran out of time in the House of Lords, returned this year, and on 11 September was defeated at second reading by 286 votes to 270. Sixteen votes. That is what a voice in the law of the land looks like in this country, and the British church has no business lecturing American believers about their ballot while it leaves its own gate empty.
So engage. Pray for those in authority by name. Vote by the weightier matters. When the ruler you supported dishonours God, say so, to his face if you have access and in public if the sin was public. That is Nathan’s mantle. We do not vote for a messiah, because we already have one. The ruler is a vessel and the King is the King.
This session continues the 14 Gates teaching arc. Two Sets of Gates ended with Daniel serving in the king’s gate until the first year of Cyrus, and this session begins with Cyrus himself. It was delivered under the working title Nathan at the Gate.
Scripture Focus Ephesians 4:29 · Isaiah 45:1-4 · 2 Samuel 12:7 · 2 Samuel 15:6 · 2 Chronicles 19:2 · Matthew 23:23-24 · Ecclesiastes 7:16 · Esther 4:14 — AMPC
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