Paula White is trash. There, I said it. She’s a false teacher, a peddler of snake oil, a carnival barker draped in pseudo-Christian robes, hawking a gospel of greed with all the theological depth of a used car salesman promising that a lemon will last forever.

She is the queen of the prosperity gospel racket, convincing desperate souls that if they just sow a “seed” into her ministry (preferably in the form of cold, hard cash), God will rain down blessings like a divine slot machine. That alone should be enough to dismiss her entirely, but no, it gets worse. Much worse.

She has claimed that when people donate to her, they are giving to God Himself, as if she holds some celestial banking license with direct deposit access to the throne of Heaven. She has taught that Jesus did not come to earth as God, effectively spewing the heretical nonsense of Kenoticism.

She has aligned herself with outright frauds like Benny Hinn—you know, the man who slaps people on the forehead and calls it a miracle—and, for a time, was allegedly his mistress. The details of that fiasco are as murky as one of his so-called “healings,” but the optics alone are damning. Even without the rumors, the fact that she was parading around in his circles tells you everything you need to know.

So, yes. Paula White is an embarrassment. She’s a heretic, a fraud, and a blight on any notion of biblical Christianity. But let me ask the question no one seems to be asking, why wasn’t Evangelical Twitter equally up in arms about Joe Biden’s faith advisors?

Think about it. For the last several years, including Trump’s first term, Reformed Twitter has been in a perpetual state of panic over Paula White’s proximity to Donald Trump. Now, during his second term, it’s ramped up even more.

“How can he be taking spiritual advice from such a false teacher?” they wail. “Doesn’t he know she’s leading souls to Hell?”

Meanwhile, Biden surrounded himself with Jesuits—men who affirm Rome’s false gospel of sacramental works-righteousness, bow to the Pope as a near-demigod, and rubber-stamp every leftist policy Biden shoves through the meat grinder of executive orders.

And yet, where was the outcry? Where was the wall-to-wall outrage over Biden’s spiritual advisors?

Are these people genuinely more concerned that Paula White has undue influence over Trump? Do they honestly believe that she wields some dark theological power over him that Biden’s Catholic handlers never had? Because here’s the reality…Biden’s faith advisors weren’t just corrupting his theology (not that there was much to corrupt). They were giving him the religious cover to push radical leftist policies that stand in direct opposition to God.

Biden’s team was perfectly fine with abortion up until birth. They endorsed the mutilation of children under the guise of “gender-affirming care.” They facilitated the expansion of government intrusion into churches’ ability to preach the whole counsel of God, all while waving a phony banner of Catholicism. And yet, Evangelical Twitter had little more than a shrug to offer.

So, what was the real concern? Was it Trump’s spiritual state? Were these same people losing sleep over Biden’s eternal destiny? I somehow doubt it. If the outrage was truly about concern for a leader’s soul, then the same hand-wringing should have been present over Biden’s openly apostate faith.

But it wasn’t.

Why?

Here’s my educated guess. The real issue isn’t that Paula White is a false teacher. It’s that many of these evangelicals are angry that they’ve lost a seat at Trump’s table. In 2016, he gave them political access like no Republican had before. He let them weigh in on policy, he listened—at least on some issues. He even visited David Platt’s church, where Platt ultimately apologized to his congregation for even praying for Trump.

But Trump was never going to be a pawn for the “respectable” evangelicals—the TGC types. He never spoke their language, he never pandered to their carefully curated theological talking points, and he certainly never did things the “proper way.” And now, with Paula White in the picture, they’re watching their influence fade away.

That’s the real scandal.

Let’s also be honest about another thing—we didn’t elect Trump to be our spiritual leader. We elected him to steer this country back from the brink of leftist lunacy, to push back against the political rot that had infested every institution, and to expose the corruption festering in the highest offices.

We also didn’t ask him to plant a church, exegete Romans 9, or lead national prayer meetings with impeccable Reformed theology. His job is to lead the country, not to shepherd the Church.

Neither did we elect him to lead the Church. In fact, if he tried to, I would be the first one shouting him down. The government has no place dictating theology. It has no business deciding who can and cannot worship. Trump’s job—if he does it right—is to protect the Church’s freedom, not to meddle in its affairs.

What he should be doing, however, is opposing the expansion of false religio-political systems like Islam, which is not just a religion but a political ideology bent on control. In fact, we could say the same to a certain extent about Roman Catholicism. That is where government action is necessary.

So, let’s circle back. Yes, Paula White is trash. In fact, all of Trump’s faith advisors are false teachers. But she is a theological dumpster fire, leading people to Hell while claiming the name of Christ. She should be exposed for the spiritual rot she has spread all throughout Christendom. But tell me, name one modern president who has surrounded himself with solid, biblical Christian influences.

Go ahead. I’ll wait.

Reagan had prosperity preachers. Bush was soaked in shallow, seeker-sensitive evangelicalism. Obama barely acknowledged Christianity except when politically expedient to do so and his “pastor” preached God’s damnation of America.

And Biden? Biden cozied up to the Jesuit elite who rubber-stamped every godless policy he could muster up in that rotting corpse of a brain. Where was the outrage then?

The reality is, the selective outrage tells you everything you need to know. They don’t care about false teachers in the White House. They care about optics. They care about whether or not they look respectable to the cultural elites. And they’re seething because Trump never played by their rules.

At the end of the day, as Christians, we should pray for Trump’s salvation. I hope he hears the real gospel. But am I losing sleep over Paula White’s presence in his orbit?

No, not really.

She’s one in a long line of frauds who have hovered around powerful men. What I do care about, however, is the glaring hypocrisy of evangelicals who suddenly rediscovered their discernment the moment it became convenient for their political reputations.

Spare me the outrage. It’s not about Trump’s soul. It’s about their influence. And that’s what they’re really mourning.