Trump Stake
- Waadl Cartoonist
- Feb 10
- 6 min read
Updated: Jun 28
Drawn on February 9 , 2025 | Published from Miami
American Zionist Jews are making their bed with an ancient enemy. The amicability of Evangelical Christians toward the Hebrew tribe comes to a halt on the eve of the apocalypse — a day that many Americans will stop at nothing to bring about in their lifetime [more here].
Given the American Right’s morbid belief that, like ingredients in a magic potion, casting all the world’s Jews into Zion will summon the second coming of Jesus the Messiah [1], could MAGA's helping hand [2] in expediting the annexation of formerly Palestinian territory hold an even more villainous plot than the genocide currently unfolding?
"And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband."
— The King James Bible, Revelation 21:2.
In their ecstatic urgency to hasten the end of days, what is to stop Christians from forcibly evicting Jews from the United States and sending them ‘home?’ After all, in the eyes of American Evangelism, the jubilation of humanity depends on Earth's destruction — something their obsession dictates can only happen once every Jew on Earth is in Israel. Could this land-grab, far from merely stopping at beachfront properties, be the perfect moment for 'Armageddonists' to seize the baton and decisively push their agenda for a ‘final solution?’
Just as Nazi Germany once considered exiling its 'undesirables' to Madagascar as a more 'sensible' alternative to lighting the ovens [3], the same right-wing forces — allies of Donald Trump [4] — that marched through Charlottesville, proudly chanting "The Jews will not replace us" [5], may one day decide that their so-called 'Jewish Question' is best answered not through exclusion, but expulsion. Should this Middle-Eastern annexation reach its zenith, would it be beyond the realm of possibility for trigger-happy, Bible-thumping Republican legislators to propose tiers of compulsory deportations of Jews from America — back to Gaza’s coastline? The rapture is but a couple million plane tickets away.
"And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away."
— The King James Bible, Revelation 21:4.
As a matter of math, there are five times more Zionist Christians in the USA than there are Jews on this planet [6]. As a matter of faith, since Zionism is a devotion extracted entirely from religion, its mission is merely an extension of its inherent eschatology. This death sentence is the covenant MAGA Jews have entered into — an unspoken, sacrificial pact written not in ink, but in prophecy, courtesy of their Evangelical allies.
So what’s in it for Trump politically, besides building hotels?
Similar to how Holocaust survivor Hannah Arendt observed in her analysis of post-1808 Prussia — when a wave of foreign Jewish immigration into the Napoleonic protectorate of 1806, later prompted a municipal emancipation that, while nominally universal, effectively cemented the privileges of a select few aristocratic “protected Jews” [7] and introduced a class divide within Judaism itself — Trump seeks a certain type of Jew, not to lift them from persecution, but to decorate his movement with social capital.
As in early 19th-century Berlin, where the few educated and wealthy “exception Jews” were elevated briefly before being reabsorbed into the undifferentiated and despised Jewish collective, today’s MAGA coalition displays a curated set of “Trump Jews” as proof of pluralism while fomenting hostility toward Jews writ large. [8]
“Each one of them had to prove that although he was a Jew, yet he was not a Jew.” [9]
— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951.
This tragic paradox — being accepted only by being disavowed — forms the ideological meeting point between the irreligious Trump and theocratic MAGA: Trump needs them for clout, while Evangelicals need them for the rapture. In both, the Jew is not embraced, but instrumentalized. These Semitic antisemites find common ground in using Jewish identity as a stepping stone toward a vision of political domination that ultimately has no room for the weak, the poor, or the uncooperative.
This is the template for socially acceptable antisemitism. The Charlottesville ralliers are waiting.
Yet the peril for Jews does not come solely from the Right. Another reason for the counterintuitive Jewish embrace of MAGA politics is the rising animus from left-wing protests calling for a halt to Netanyahu's mass murder of Palestinian families — a death toll that, despite conflicting figures, continues to rise by gargantuan numbers [10].
On the Left, therefore, a derivative of the corrosive conservative logic is unfolding — one that pivots not on apocalyptic theology, but on the weaponized conflation of Judaism with the modern Israeli state. For decades, both Israeli hasbara and American conservative propaganda have collapsed the distinction between faith and the nationalist project, branding Zionism as synonymous with Judaism itself. This distortion not only fuels charges of hypocrisy when Israel commits atrocities, but also paints American Jews — particularly those who identify as Zionist — as agents of ethnic supremacy.
Profoundly confused humanists then find their target not merely in Israeli policy, but in Jews perceived as apologists for modern crimes against humanity akin to the fascist waves of the 1930s and 40s.
In this weird way, Israel’s own messaging becomes the scaffolding of the very antisemitism it eagerly seeks to mobilize against anyone daring enough to question its mission in Gaza and the West Bank.
Bottom line: people of any political affiliation should know better — Judaism is not an Israeli passport.
But years of deliberate propaganda — by both Netanyahu and the GOP — have ensured that the world sees little daylight between the Torah and the tanks in Gaza. In a nutshell, Zionism, and the manifest destiny it projects, has created secular antisemitism, as a visceral immune response to this blanket of apologism for Israel's flagrant apartheid and annexation.
In a truly gargantuan twist of irony, Zionist Jews may finally get exactly what they wished for — the fast-pass and final blessing to total Jewish statehood. Yet this Judaic exodus to Israel may prove far more brutally forceful than the glossy declarations printed on luxury hotel brochures at Trump International headquarters.
[1] Non-exhaustive list of verses that illustrate key tenets of the Christian Zionist cause as a function of dispensationalist theology — the believe that God has dealt with humanity differently in seven eras (dispensations), the current era being the "Church Age," with a future dispensation involving Israel’s restoration and Jesus’ return:
Genesis 17:7-8 | This passage is foundational for evangelical Zionism, as it affirms God's promise of the land of Israel to Abraham and his descendants forever.
Deuteronomy 30:3-5 | This is often seen as a prophecy of the return of the Jewish people to Israel, which many evangelicals believe was fulfilled in the 20th century with the establishment of Israel.
Jeremiah 30:3 | Evangelical Christians often interpret this verse as a promise of Israel's restoration in the end times.
Zechariah 8:7-8 | This prophecy is seen as God’s promise to restore Israel and bring the Jewish people back to the land, reinforcing the belief in the ongoing divine plan for Israel.
Ezekiel 36:24 | The belief that the Jewish return to Israel is a key step before the Second Coming.
[2] Madhani, A., Goldenberg, T. and Miller, Z. (2025) Trump won’t rule out deploying US troops to support rebuilding Gaza, sees ‘long-term’ US ownership, AP News. Available at: https://apnews.com/article/trump-netanyahu-washington-ceasefire-1c8deec4dd46177e08e07d669d595ed3 (Accessed: 09 February 2025).
[3] The Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archives of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Capital Cities Broadcasting Corporation (1961) Eichmann Trial -- Session 92 -- Madagascar Plan, United States holocaust memorial museum. Available at: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn1001809 (Accessed: 09 February 2025).
"Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0087 | RG Number: RG-60.2100.134 | Film ID: 2134 Attorney General Gideon Hausner cross-examines Eichmann about the Madagascar Plan. The Madagascar Plan predated the Nazi period but was revived during the war. Under this plan, Europe's Jews were to be deported to the island of Madgascar, which belonged to the French. Hausner asks the accused what measures were taken towards promoting the plan (00:02:35). Eichmann testifies that it would have developed once a peace treaty with France was signed but that the treaty never happened so the plan was shelved."
[4] Gray, R. (2017) Trump defends white-nationalist protesters: ’some very ..., Congress.gov. Available at: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/116973/documents/HHRG-118-ED00-20240417-SD006.pdf (Accessed: 10 February 2025).
[5] Charlottesville chants (2017):
Green, E. (2017) Why the Charlottesville marchers were obsessed with jews, The Atlantic. Available at: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/nazis-racism-charlottesville/536928/ (Accessed: 09 February 2025).
ADL (2018) After Charlottesville, YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiAT2IEzJAc (Accessed: 10 February 2025).
"On August 11, 2017, the world watched in horror as hundreds of torch-wielding white supremacists descended on the University of Virginia campus, chanting, “Jews will not replace us!” Hear how the ADL- through their Center on Extremism and Education programs- fought back against the hatred and bigotry after Charlottesville."
[6] ~15.7 Million Jews and ~82 Million American Evangelical (and related denominations) Christians in the USA.
[7] Arendt, H. (1973) The Origins of Totalitarianism. Spain: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, p. 68.
[8] Magid, J. (September 20, 2024) Trump: If I lose election, Jewish people will ‘have a lot to do with’ it | The Times of Israel, Times of Israel. Available at: https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-if-i-lose-election-jewish-people-will-have-a-lot-to-do-with-it/ (Accessed: 2024).
[9] Arendt, H. (1973) The Origins of Totalitarianism. Spain: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, p. 69.
[10] PBS NewsHour. (2025) Gaza health officials say 55,000 Palestinians have died in Israel‑Hamas war. PBS. Available at: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/gaza-health-officials-say-55000-palestinians-have-died-in-israel-hamas-war (Accessed: 26 June 2025).
