Update (9/20/24): During the special event at Sheridan Church, Donald Trump Jr. pushed the white supremacist “great replacement” theory, alleging that Democrats are “just going to bring in 20 more people to displace” people that are not “voting blindly Democrat anymore.” He also claimed that “there's a reason” that “5% of the population of Haiti” are being brought into “reliable red areas.”
Donald Trump Jr. is scheduled to appear at an Oklahoma church led by an extremist right-wing pastor and media figure who has referred to Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris as a “lying whore,” claimed that “Democrats have a demonic obsession with murdering babies,” and called Islam “the GREATEST threat to the Western Civilization.”
Jackson Lahmeyer, who is also a former congressional candidate, leads Sheridan Church in Tulsa. After Donald Trump Jr.'s September 19 appearance, Eric Trump and former President Donald Trump's legal spokesperson Alina Habba are both scheduled to appear at the church for an additional “special event” on October 10.
Lahmeyer is a pro-Trump pastor and commentator who founded the right-wing group Pastors for Trump, which holds events with MAGA media figures such as Michael Flynn and Roger Stone in support of Trump’s 2024 campaign. Under Lahmeyer’s leadership, Pastors for Trump has drawn “sharp rebukes from mainstream Christian leaders for being extremist, distorting Christian teachings and endangering American democracy by fueling the spread of Christian nationalism,” as reported by The Guardian.
In 2022, Lahmeyer ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination in Oklahoma for U.S. Senate.
Lahmeyer now frequently appears in right-wing media to promote Pastors for Trump and provide political commentary. On Steve Bannon’s War Room last year while promoting an upcoming Pastors for Trump event, Lahmeyer declared that he's a “Christian nationalist” and said he wears the label as “a badge of honor.”
Lahmeyer has spread vitriolic rhetoric in right-wing media interviews, social media posts, and online sermons, claiming Democrats are under the influence of Satan or demons; pushing bigotry toward LGBTQ people, Jewish people, and Muslims; and attacking the vice president in sexist terms. Lahmeyer has said that “Islam has been and remains the GREATEST threat to the Western Civilization,” suggested that “Democrats have a demonic obsession with murdering babies,” and called the LGBTQ movement “a demonic-inspired movement.”
In addition to calling Harris a “lying whore,” Lahmeyer has repeatedly referred to “304,” a slang term for “hoe,” when discussing the vice president.
Lahmeyer has been scheduling an array of extreme speakers at his Oklahoma church, including far-right media figures Jonathan Cahn and Perry Stone.
Cahn is a so-called “doomsday prophet” who has claimed that the Bible predicted Donald Trump’s 2016 election and declared that President Joe Biden put the United States under “demonic possession” by lighting up the White House in the colors of the rainbow for LGBTQ Pride. Cahn is slated to appear at Sheridan on February 26.
Stone is a right-wing pastor and streamer who has declared that Democrats who oppose Trump “have demons in them” and prophesied that God will strike America with a tsunami as punishment for abortion. Stone spoke at Sheridan Church’s “Ignite” conference on September 8, apparently speaking about “What Will Happen Before The Tribulation.”
Donald Trump Jr. is set to join Lahmeyer as a “special guest” at his church on September 19.
