Posted On: Friday - February 20th 2026 7:15PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Trump AntiChrist Liberty/Libertarianism Bible/Religion
Rant is probably putting it mildly here. It’s likely TDS has mutated many times over by now, but this guy has the original 2-hours-and-yer-dead strain. I have to add that the Trump Derangement Syndrome thing is not a new idea. Republicans were calling it Bush Derangement Syndrome for the ‘00/‘04 version, though, to me, using that form for Bush was getting suckered into the Overton Briar Patch.
A commenter elsewhere embedded the video of Politician/Pastor Chuck Baldwin that you can see below. That name… see, my wife watches a whole lot of preachers on youtube that do full book:chapter:verse lectures on the Bible. There is a Chuck Smith she’s told me about, and a Chuck Missler too that she’ll watch (both have passed a while ago) for many hours and days.
As a quick aside, that’s somewhat of a problem in that she is pretty often down on the pastor at our church. “You’re watching your favorites in the whole country! How do you expect other guys to match them?” Yeah, maybe we should all sit in Church in front of our phones… it’s getting weird…
Anyway, this Chuck, well, a light came on for me. That’s not one of the preachers named Chuck that she watches. This is THE Chuck Baldwin, the guy whose Libertarian/Christian columns I’d read for years* and the guy I voted for in the ‘08 Presidential election even. Regarding the first thing, he was one of the Libertarians like Lew Rockwell, Ron Paul, etc. that I followed regularly 2 decades back. VDare had his column up for a few years, which I was pleased with. He wasn’t a specific VDare writer though, so he’s not a guy the Brimelows knew personally and met with.
Chuck Baldwin has the right opinions on limited government, freedom of religion, home/private schooling, guns, that Flu Manchu Totalitarianism (he held Church that April against the orders of Montana), illegal immigration, and a whole lot more.
Mr. Baldwin had built up his Crossroads* Church in Pensacola, Florida, and then (and I recall this) he moved to Kalispell, Montana as a better place to have his family and church be a part of the proposed American Redoubt. That was/is to be a last stand location for Constitution-abiding Americans. This guy is a Liberatarian Prepper type of my own heart. I do remember writing someone, though, that race had a WHOLE LOT to do with that move, though I doubt this guy would admit it.
Here’s the 53 minute video. I’m not saying it’s all worth watching anyway, but if you agree with this guy by the end, well, you’re on the wrong website. I’ll comment on it below.
Pastor Baldwin, in this completely political speech (no matter how he’d spin it) started with the Book of Ephesians, Chapter 5. In this letter instructing the disciples in a Church in what’s now Turkey how to behave and who to hang out with, verse 11 is what Chuck Baldwin concentrated on:
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.”Reprove them.” He, not Paul but Chuck Baldwin, that is, insists that Evangelical Church members reprove Donald Trump and - you’ll catch this in force toward the end - any Christians who even support President Trump! They are “in direct violation of the Holy Word of God.“ Where does he get off…?!
Early on in this video, I was trying to figure out what had set this guy off about Trump. The Zionism, of course, was mentioned throughout. He’s got a big point and a very contentious one for Evangelical Christians. I have read that the problem is the Scofield Bible, published 117 years ago. I won’t get into all that here, but let me state that Mr. Baldwin has ragged on Zionism out of many politicians, including Trump, for years. It’s not just that.
His talk about being wary of joining the military and Federal law enforcement is standard Constitutionalist stuff that I generally agree with. However, I got an inkling of what he might be getting at with the latter. Then he mentioned morality, suggesting this is about the Epstein Flies, though he was fair enough to note that he thought a whole series of politicians have been immoral reprobates. OK, but the thing is, Trump is OUR immoral reprobate. ;-}
There’s a short aside in which, after admirably quoting Thomas Jefferson, he explains why he’s not one of the guys who will spend his life fighting the tax system. Sure. You may skip to 10 minutes in for the real substance, in which he makes clear (10:30) he hates Donald Trump. As for Christians and Christian Pastors who support him: Rebuke them! “What we know now.”, as he says 3 times saying along with “in ‘26”, means he’s talking very recent happenings, which foretells Epstein (but also more). Per Mr. Baldwin, though, President Trump is “a lifelong gangster, a lifelong Zionist, a lifelong philander, a lifelong cheat, a lifelong felon, a lifelong hedonist, a lifelong blackmailer, a lifelong malignant narcissist, and a lifelong sexual predator.”
Let’s see, in order:
Gangster: Nah, not at all. Let’s not hyperventilate here.
Zionist: Generally he’s been, but it’s subject to change
Philanderer: Guilty
Cheat: Nah. He’s one of the most honest men to have held this office in a century.
Felon: Get real!
Hedonist: Yeaaahhh…
Blackmailer: Nope, Baldwin has got wheeling & dealing confused with blackmail.
Malignant Narcissist: He sure is a narcissist, but he’s one of the least malignant of them.
Sexual Predator: Is Mr. Baldwin jealous that Trump got him a leggy supermodel? Sounds like it.
Trump assuredly rubs the Pastor the wrong way. I get that. Trump is quite the opposite in personality of most who call themselves Christians. We don’t know if Trump really is, but, I’ll give you this - he supports White Christians more than anyone else we’ve seen up there since Reagan.
Trump does NOT wear Christianity on his sleeve as he acts like a boor, philanderer, and, what was the middle thing again? Pastor Baldwin believes that, because the President does have a whole lot of Evangelical support, he will promote some false Christianity with himself as the idol. (I’m sure he’s thought about it, but… nahhh…) Baldwin even called Trump the AntiChrist at one point. Ha, we’ve got much better candidates (oh, and this guy).
Let me get to the recent National Prayer Breakfast. Pastor Baldwin went off for minutes first on how non-political and full of reverence, these yearly events should be. Fair enough - I like that idea. He was then incensed at how President Trump “mocked” Speaker Johnson’s prayer before his meal. Sorry, Pastor, you are just not a people person. Trump is. No, I would not have liked for him to have talked round and round for 70-odd minutes, as if it were a campaign rally, either, what with the eggs, grits, and pancakes getting cold! However, we’ll just watch.
Trump was just being Trump, a fun person to hang out with. He used this one act by the Speaker to praise the guy, as he will do even for guys he can’t stand… like the Speaker. He spoke off the cuff, embedding God and religion to bring himself back to yet another boast, which involved stats about more Americans attending Church now. You’d think Pastor Baldwin would appreciate this, but, no, granted, it was surely irreverent. It was a lie that Trump was mocking Mike Johnson.
Let’s talk politics now, as Chuck Baldwin did, no matter how much he said this was all about morality. Chuck Baldwin’s politics are very much in the same vein as Ron Paul’s. He knows Ron Paul and has worked with him. In this talk, Pastor Baldwin got back into his Zionism charges, probably the biggest general thing he really has against Trump. He brought up something from Ron Paul’s campaign in ‘12 for the GOP nomination. Ron Paul was booed in Myrtle Beach, SC that Jan 16th in a debate when he suggested our foreign policy ought to obey the Golden Rule. Watch:
Was the audience all Evangelicals? How does Chuck Baldwin know this? The warmongering hype out of New Gingrich about terror and Bin Laden just beforehand had the NeoCons in the audience dead against Ron Paul. However, listen through 30 seconds, and you’ll see the audience applaud Ron Paul as he continued with “no new wars”, “get out of these one”, and “bring the troops home”. I guess Baldwin didn’t have time to get past 20 seconds, or his memory is faulty. It’s a lie of omission.
He lauds Ron Paul while deriding the morals of Donald Trump and is on solid ground in doing so. However, did he forget that, as a staunch Libertarian, Ron Paul wants Feral Gov’t hands off everything, including the choice of abortion. Both Dr. Paul and President Trump would be in favor of the end of Roe v Wade - and thank you, the latter for appointing a few decent SCROTUS members to get that done. Trump doesn’t have the moral motivation, but he gets things done.
Then, when I told Ron Paul in person that same Winter of ‘12 that if he wanted to win [STATE REDACTED], “you need to talk about illegal immigration”, Dr. Paul said a few honest words back, but he didn’t do much of that. Hence, 4 years later we had a guy that DID talk about that, and that’s the only reason he’s well-known enough right now to be ranted at by Chuck Baldwin.
Finally, at 38 1/2 minutes in through 50 more seconds, I can see the derangement in this guy. He WAS talking about ICE in the beginning. Now, as we did, one can question those shootings of the 2 Commies out in the cold streets of Minneapolis last month. Likely both shootings were wrongful and even could warrant charges on various levels of manslaughter. They were absolutely NOT “cold-blooded murder”, as Baldwin rants. You lie, Chuck Baldwin. That’s the 3rd time here. Earlier on in the Bible, in Exodus and Deuteronomy, there were these commandments, see? Here’s one: ”You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.”
About these ICE agents, yes, Trump sent them… to do a job! The Communists were sent there to stop the removal of illegal aliens, some even violent, that the city was protecting. In that short list above I noted that Chuck Baldwin has long been against illegal immigration (part of why VDare published him).
Trump and his people have been trying to get Job #1 done. If anyone would follow the whole story, he’d know that that’s what these ICE raids were about, that alone. Chuck Baldwin doesn’t seem like the guy who’d have MSNBC on in his living room, but that’s what it seems like.
Yet, after those shootings, “they are still supporting him”. From there Baldwin goes all holier-than-thou, “God saw that.” Yeah, God sees a lot of things, buddy, such as thousands of beatings, rapes, and murders done by people that Trump is trying to rid our country of. What do you know about it, damn MSNBC watcher?
At this point the reader may realize this post is way too long, but he should be glad this 2nd look at the video has me so pissed off I’ll end this shortly.
Epstein Island is the next big thing Baldwin hates Trump for. As Peak Stupidity noted at the end of our post The Epstein Files with the REDACTED stories of Fantasy Island , no matter who might escape notice, the big lesson here is that our elites are kind of, well, a book about them all could be fairly titled Profiles in Debauchery. Baldwin compares what happened down there to Mongol atrocities in history. No. That’s just stupid. Until I read about cannibalism, I will remain unshocked.
Surprising, Baldwin did not associate the real problem with Epstein Island, the blackmail likely done by Israel, with Trump. OTOH, Trump has come out pretty well, so that wouldn’t fit in with this “sermon”’s theme, would it?
Near the end, Christians are told that by supporting this “reprobate”, which we “know” is wrong, we won’t stop supporting him “mainly because of the Israel issue.” That is SO, SO off. There have been rifts (see MTG and Senator Massie) BECAUSE of the Israel issue. We still support Trump, reprobate or not, Chuck Baldwin, because he’s getting the job done!
This guy says right up there on the pulpit that we should not put up with another 3 years. Would he rather be all high and mighty watching the ctrl-left, downright Communist at this point, take the Dark Brandon/Mayorkas/Garland destruction to the next level? What does he think would be a better plan than to let this guy do a WHOLE HELL OF A LOT of what he promised us this time?
Pastor Baldwin made fun of Conservatives’ use of the terms “Socialist” and “Libtard” early on in this speech. I beg to differ. He’s not a Libtard for sure, but after this speech, Chuck Baldwin strikes me as SOME kind of retard. I’d still vote for him though…
That’s it. Sorry I don’t have timestamps to match my own rant here. I do have blood pressure medication.
PS: About that ‘08 election: It was Øb☭ma vs Juan McAmnesty for the Blue wing and Red wing respectively. The L’s didn’t have Ron Paul running, though this was still one election before they started nominating total whack jobs. So, since no Ron Paul, it was Mr. Baldwin of the Constitution Party. I was one of the 199,000 people who got him up to 0.15% of the popular vote.
PPS: I wonder which is stronger, getting rebuked or reproved?
* I may have written this on this blog, maybe elsewhere, but I have mistakenly thought his former church was in Cross City, due to that name. Cross City is way, way around the bend, about 130 miles north of the Tampa Bay. Nice area, BTW, with no beaches to speak of, so fewer Yankees, Cubans, etc., etc.
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