The Trump administration’s attempt to recruit Christianity has had unintended consequences. It certainly hasn’t made the regime look more sacred; rather, it has made the regime look vulgar, incoherent and intellectually thin. It has emphasised to serious Christians, especially Catholics, that Christianity cannot be reduced to memes, theatrical props, and war propaganda. At the start of his administration, Trump instituted a “Faith Office” which, as I pointed out in a previous article, was not so much an acknowledgement of religious truth, as a cynical effort to hijack religious communities, and Christianity in particular, to the purposes of Trump’s state.