Elizabeth Christ Trump (born Elisabeth Christ) was a German-American businesswoman and the paternal grandmother of Donald Trump. She married Frederick Trump in 1902. They had three children, Fred, John, and Elizabeth. She co-founded the real estate development company E. Trump & Son with her son Fred, the father of Donald Trump. Elizabeth Christ Trump was considered the matriarch of the Trump family. She remained close to her son Fred for her entire life. She is buried in the Lutheran cemetery. Thus, technically, Donald Trump is a direct descendant of Christ, and moreover, a grandson.
Evangelical Christianity has played a significant role in the life of the Trump-Christ family. The Trump family are Lutheran members of the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate. Members of the family’s American branch tend to be Presbyterians, or adherents of other Reformed churches. Fred Trump was a supporter of Southern Baptist evangelist Billy Graham, whom he took his family to see speak at Yankee Stadium. At the megachurch in Miami, evangelicals are literally praying over Donald Trump:
Evangelicals Pray Over Trump at Miami Megachurch by Bloomberg
At the same time, Ivanka Trump, Donald’s daughter, practices Judaism, having converted upon marrying her husband Jared Kushner, a prominent Zionist. In Judaism, Zionism is a current of adherents of the idea that it is necessary not to wait for the fulfilment of divine scriptures, but to implement them on one’s own (found Israel, tear down the mosque on the Temple Mount, build the Third Temple on that site, and so on). Similarly, in Christianity, evangelicals methodically attempt to bring the second coming of Christ closer, formerly calling this practice the ‘immanentise the eschaton’ (in modern terminology, this process is sometimes described as ‘hastening the eschaton’ or ‘ hastening the apocalypse’). In this sense it refers to a phenomenon related to the specific Christian form of millennialism which is based on a particular reading of the Christian Bible’s Book of Revelation especially popular among evangelicals in the United States.
For example, many evangelicals believed that Trump’s embassy in Jerusalem would hasten the second coming of Jesus. Some evangelical Christians believe that recognising Jerusalem as the capital of Israel will bring on the end of the world. The significance of Jerusalem and Israel to evangelicals concerns the ‘Third Temple’ prophecy. Prophecies of a Third Temple are made in the books of Daniel, Matthew, and Revelation, and in the Second epistle to the Thessalonians. These have been interpreted by some to suggest that the building of a Third Temple, known as the ‘Tribulation Temple’, will occur during the period of the Antichrist and bring on the apocalypse. This is said to be followed by 1000 years of rule on earth by Christ himself, which some evangelical Christians are in favour of seeing happen.
Just a few days ago, the official Chabad Lubavitch website reported that ‘President Trump Marks Oct. 7 With Prayer Visit to Ohel’: Donald Trump marked the one-year anniversary of the terror attack with a personal prayer visit to the grave of Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson. Earlier, Trump received the Friends of Zion award. Fred Trump, Donald’s father, donated land in order to build a Jewish centre and synagogue in New York.
It is possible that the Trump family is an example of deliberate co-operation between evangelicals and Zionists in hastening the apocalypse, in a situation where the Christian end of the world cannot come before the Jewish end of the world, because the Jewish one-world ruler, the Moshiach, is the Antichrist who must precede the coming of Christ. Some religious groups opposed to the immanentisation of the eschaton have noted the Trump family’s direct ties to the AISB (The Ancient Illuminated Seers of Bavaria). Either way, given formal descent from the Bavarian Elizabeth Christ, Donald Trump and his descendants, such as son Barron, have formal family rights to the place of the Christian one-world ruler prescribed by the scriptures.
But it is also possible that formal descent from Elizabeth Christ will not be enough, and instead of the Christian scriptures, the Trump family will embody the writings of Ingersollom Lockwood: ‘The Amazing Underground Journey of Baron Trump’ and ‘1900; or, The Last President.’ Notably, Lockwood’s adventures of Baron Trump began in Russia, so already at least this part – already realised.
