In one press release, Donald Trump refers to him as “John McCallen”. In another press release, his name is spelled “John McCallan”.

Does Donald Trump have even the faintest clue who this person is?

Donald Trump claims to have obtained the endorsement of a pastor in Pottawattamie County, Iowa named John McCallen.

The problem is that there is no record of any pastor named John McCallen living and working in Pottawattamie County, Iowa. There’s not any pastor with a similar name either, like MCallan, or McAllen.

It’s strange, if you think about it, that a person could work as a pastor, leading people in the development of their religious lives, but be completely invisible in larger society, to never be mentioned at all even in a social media post or funeral notice in a newspaper.

This bizarre absence leads one to suspect that John McCallen might not really be a pastor, or might not exist at all.

A new book, Donald Trump’s Army of God: Christian Nationalism in the Iowa Faith Leader Coalition, provides information about all 317 members of the Iowa Faith Leader Coalition.

As “a case study in the violent extremism that has come to define the presidential election of 2024,” the book provides a grounded examination of Christian Nationalist ideology that is lacking from other, more theoretical, books on Christian Nationalism.

Donald Trump Army of God Book Cover

The Iowa Faith Leader Coalition is a radical political organization that violates American law

Let’s learn more about the extremist Christian Nationalists who are members of Donald Trump’s Iowa Faith Leader Coalition.