"Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves."
- Jesus (Matthew 7:15)

All across the country, Christians and churches are working to build a robust, multifaith, multiracial democracy. Together, we’re acting on Jesus’s teaching of love, peace and truth — but Christian-nationalist leaders are challenging those Biblical values by embracing hatred, violence, and conspiracy theories.

Christian nationalism poses a grave threat to democracy, the church, and the common good — and grassroots Christians are sick of seeing its False Prophets distort the Gospel for their political agenda of power and division. To help Americans respond to this threat, Faithful America has selected the following individuals for our second-annual list of American False Prophets:

  • Burns is a prominent American evangelical minister and failed political candidate who Time Magazine called “Donald Trump’s Top Pastor” in 2016. He is currently a board member of Pastors for Trump. Burns is also a regular speaker on the ReAwaken America Tour, where he regularly declares “war on Satan and every race-baiting Democrat” and even uses the Bible to threaten explicit political violence. He frequently espouses Christian nationalist rhetoric, telling crowds that ”This is a God nation, this is a Jesus nation, and you will never take my God and my gun out of this nation.”

  • Green is a self-proclaimed prophet affiliated with the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR). She is a regular speaker at the Christian-nationalist ReAwaken America Tour, where she has told pastors they are “under the greatest attack (they’ve) ever been in,” promised that God would remove President Biden, and told Eric Trump that the indictments against his father would “all fall apart.” She previously claimed that God had spoken directly to her about electing previous False Prophet Doug Mastriano, the 2020 Republican gubernatorial candidate in Pennsylvania, and about overturning the results of the 2020 election.

  • Ingraham is the host of “The Ingraham Angle” on Fox News, through which she spreads far-right misinformation and conspiracy theories. She is best known for her racist, anti-immigrant, and religiously motivated homophobic commentary. She is well-networked within the MAGA movement, offering a platform and validation to some of the movement’s most extreme Christian-nationalist voices. Ingraham also regularly features Raymond Arroyo from EWTN -- the Fox News of the conservative Catholic world -- as a guest and substitute host.

  • Newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana has been called “the most unabashedly Christian nationalist speaker in history.” He is a far-right evangelical leader who has referred to running for office not as "public service" but as "legal ministry" akin to pastoral ministry. Johnson sees the government and secular law as a way to control and force religion on those different than him, advancing an anti-freedom, theocratic, anti-LGBTQ, Christian-nationalist political agenda. In his own words, Johnson told the Louisiana Baptist Message in 2016, “I was called to legal ministry and I’ve been out on the front lines of the ‘culture war’ defending religious freedom, the sanctity of human life, and biblical values, including the defense of traditional marriage, and other ideas like these.” Johnson is also an election denier who worked to discount the ballots of disproportionately Black and Brown voters in 2020. According to the New York Times, the new speaker “played a leading role in recruiting House Republicans to sign a legal brief supporting a lawsuit seeking to overturn the 2020 election results and was an architect of Mr. Trump’s bid to object to certifying them in Congress on Jan. 6, 2021.”

  • Failed House Speaker candidate Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio is one of the alleged conspirators behind the January 6 insurrection within the House of Representatives. He is an election denier who urged then-Vice President Pence to reject lawful electoral votes and is now leading a bogus impeachment inquiry against President Biden entirely based on lies and false witness. Former Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger, who served on the House January 6 Committee, says Jordan is “in the camp of Christian nationalist.” According to journalist Amanda Marcotte, his goal is “annihilating anyone he believes gets in the way of total domination by white Christian conservative men.”

  • Kirk is the founder and CEO of Turning Points USA and Turning Point Faith, which use an annual budget of more than $50 million to mobilize pastors, students, and millions of social-media followers to support a Christian nationalist agenda. Kirk is aslo a former collaborator of evangelical leader Jerry Falwell, Jr. He has wrongly claimed that separation of church and state is “unconstitutional, immoral, and a tactic of the enemy to try to keep the Church submissive.”

  • Lahmeyer, an Oklahoma pastor and failed Senate candidate, is the leader of “Pastors for Trump,” an affiliate group of the ReAwaken America Tour seeking to build evangelical support for Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign. He is also a regular speaker on the ReAwaken America Tour, declaring “I will embrace Christian Nationalism because… we are at war in this country; it is a spiritual war between good and evil.”

  • Patrick is the current lieutenant governor of Texas and, as leader of the state senate, a primary driver of the attempted implementation of a Christian nationalist agenda in the state legislature -- including a theocratic new law allowing public schools to replace counselors with untrained, unlicensed chaplains. Addressing the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in 2022, Patrick claimed: “We’re a nation founded upon the words of God. He wrote the Constitution. He empowered them.”

  • Trump was the 45th president and is under multiple indictments (the number may have increased by the time you read this) related to his attempts to alter the results of the 2020 election. Trump weaponizes Christianity to seize power for himself, as he demonstrated when he teargassed peaceful protesters in order to use the Bible as a prop outside an unwilling church in Washington, D.C. His use of religious symbolism is seemingly insincere: Trump has openly questioned the faith of those who criticize him, mocked pastors who support him behind their backs, and even bragged that he ignores Jesus’s teaching to ask for forgiveness and love his enemies.

  • Archbishop Viganò is an outspoken critic of Pope Francis and a controversial figure within the Catholic Church. He is also known for joining Tyler, TX, Bishop Joseph Strickland at a pro-Trump, Christian-nationalist "Stop the Steal" rally building up to January 6, 2021. He has even repeatedly addressed the MAGA movement's ReAwaken America Tour, where disgraced general and self-proclaimed Christian nationalist Michael Flynn called him a personal mentor.

  • Wallnau is a self-proclaimed “prophet” affiliated with the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) who also self-identifies as a Christian nationalist. He is largely responsible for the resurgence of “Seven Mountains” dominion theology that inspires many white evangelicals to seek total control of society through any means they deem necessary (including political violence). Wallnau’s teachings also helped propel Donald Trump to victory in 2016 by convincing evangelicals they could vote for him as a King Cyrus-like biblical figure. "Trump has the Cyrus anointing," he told Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network. Wallnau is also a frequent speaker on the Christian-nationalist ReAwaken America Tour and a recurring guest on the Jim Bakker Show.

  • Ziegler is chair of the school board in Sarasota, Florida, and co-founder of Moms for Liberty, which the Southern Poverty Law Center has designated a hate group. At its 2023 summit, Moms for Liberty declared “spiritual war” on the left. Ziegler also runs a training center to teach school board members from across the country to weaponize race and LGBTQ issues just like her. Michael Flynn, a 2022 False Prophet, has close ties to Ziegler’s local Moms for Liberty chapter and vocally endorsed her campaign for school board.