Trump Madness Reaches Fever Pitch With Claims Of ‘Great Maga King’
Trump and many of his cult followers believe he is second only to Jesus and a formerly obscure broadcasting network is looking to the heavens for profits.
Before trump’s latest rally in Erie, Pa., a woman wearing a brown T-shirt with the words, “Great Maga King” proclaimed that she supports “King Trump” who comes only after “King Jesus.”
“We’ve got to support the king,” the unidentified woman told a reporter from the conservative news outlet, Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN).
It is not the first time that trump has been referred to as just this side of Jesus.
The Clown King himself shared a post on his Truth Social account in September 2022, declaring him as “second” only to Jesus. The post was next to an image of a painting of Jesus by Christian artist Dan Wilson.
That was met by a tweet from Truth Social user @austinnegrete who said: “Jesus is the Greatest. President @realDonaldTrump is the second greatest.”
In August 2019, while answering a reporter’s question about the trade war with China, trump looked to heavens and proclaimed, “I am the chosen one.” A few days later, trump tweeted that he was “kidding, being sarcastic and just having fun.” Really?
And in October 2020, trump claimed to have spoken with someone who told him he was the most famous person in the world. In response, trump told supporters in North Carolina that Jesus Christ was actually more famous than him.
Right Side Broadcasting Network also known as Right Side Broadcasting, is known for its unabashed, 1,000 percent groveling support of trump and for live streaming on its YouTube channel everything trump, from rallies, to town halls and public events, from start to finish, with no commentary.
Support of trump has paid off handsomely as RSBN’s YouTube channel has more than 1.57 million subscribers and has received 235 million total views, as of June 2023.
The brainchild of Right Side Broadcasting ia Joe Seales, a formerly unemployed businessman from Auburn, Ala., who formed the company in July 2015. Seales caught the proverbial lightning in a bottle in 2015 when he began live streaming rallies for then candidate trump during the 2016 presidential election campaign.
Seales started the network with his own money and soon began collecting revenues through crowdfunding, which started to pay off with the third presidential debate in 2016. Trump live streamed RSBN’s coverage of the debates on his Facebook page. That October, the company received $40,000 in donations.
In 2016, RSBN was the official live streaming platform for the trump campaign’s Facebook page, where their footage reached almost 300 million views. The YouTube channel grossed almost 120 million views.
The videos began to accumulate more than a million views and Seales tapped into the huge and exploding demand for unedited Trump footage. Since then, RSBM has accumulated hundreds of millions of views on its YouTube channel.
RSBN has more than 186,000 subscribers on YouTube. MSNBC, by comparison, has 173,000 subscribers. RSBN’s most popular video , a clip of Secret Service agents surrounding Trump when a fan tried to charge the stage, has over 2.3 million views, while several videos of entire trump events have over a million views.
In the summer of 2016, RSBM went on air by hosting several shows with two far right personalities, Wayne Dupree and pastor Mark Burns.
Dupree, an African American radio host, aired a recent podcast by the new trump spokesman Liz Harrington, titled,”Trump is a vessel for the country.” Another piece is titled, “He’s on Fire!! Trump has been on point with messages and audiences and it’s a good thing.”
Dupree once accused survivors of the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre in 2012 of being “crisis actors.” He said the same thing about victims of the school massacre in Parkland, Fla, in which 17 students and teachers were slaughtered.
In 2013 , about a month after a gunman killed 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., Dupree posted several articles on his website about the “Sandy Hook hoax” or “Sandy Hook victim hoax.” The articles accused parents of children at the school, and in one case the medical examiner who identifies the bodies, of being “crisis actors,” impersonating parents to promote “the New World Order agenda of total control, including the control of children’s minds.”
“On and before December 14, 2012, Sandy Hook was infested with espionage operatives,” Dupree wrote. “These operatives posed as the incredible, primarily parents.”
Fortunately, Dupree’s Internet radio show has only 12,000 subscribers on YouTube.
Mark Burns is an African American, evangelical minister, televangelist, political candidate and pastor of the Harvest Praise & Worship Center in South Carolina. After working at a McDonald’s, Burns founded a church in Easley, S.C., then moved into televangelism. An early supporter of trump, he was a 2023 board member of “Pastors for Trump.”
Burns claimed to have held a bachelor of science degree from North Greenville University and claimed to have served six years in the U.S. Army Reserve. In August 2016, Burns admitted that he attended North Greenville University for one semester and did not receive a degree. He also acknowledged that he served from 2001 to 2005 in the South Carolina Army National Guard, rather than the Army Reserve.
Burns was described by Time magazine as “Donald Trump’s Top Pastor” and named one of the “16 People Who Shaped the 2016 Presidential Election” by Yahoo! News.
Burns offered the benediction on the first day of the 2016 Republican National Convention. Before the prayer, he addressed the convention, called trump a “man of God,” and called on Republicans not to attack each other, labeling Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party the “enemy.”
In August 2016, Burns retweeted a digitally manipulated image of Hillary Clinton in blackface. Burns later said the Democratic Party uses black people for votes.
In November 2020, during the 2020 presidential election, Burns made unsubstantiated claims of fraud and said that “President Trump is the clear winner of this 2020 Presidential election.” After the storming of the Capitol in January 2021 by trump supporters, Burns was among those who claimed that people associated with Antifa were responsible for the attack.
Burns has called for the arrest of supportive parents of transgender children.
The Editor-in-Chief at Right Side Broadcasting Network is Grace Saldana, who says in her bio that she is “a proud Christian conservative trying to make her way in a liberal world.”
Salda says that as she got older, she “felt like my voice was being silenced due to my identity as a young woman from California who disagreed with the Leftist narrative.”
In college, she became active with the far right college activism group, Turning Point USA. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) called Turning Point USA an alt-lite organization in 2019. Both the ADL and the Southern Poverty Law Center have said Turning Point USA has links with activists from the alt-right and the far-right. The ADL has also reported that the group’s leadership and activists “have made multiple racist or bigoted comments” and have links to extremism.
“I’m completely dedicated to working to preserve American values and put America First when everything in our culture tries to destroy this concept,” Saldana said.
Saldana’s Instagram account links to HomeFreedom.News, a website which claimed that the “The Liberal Elites are MANIPULATING the news and putting all forces together to ensure that Trump does not get re-elected in 2020.”
A fact check by Media Bias showed that Freedom.News is a right-wing conspiracy and pseudoscience website that routinely publishes false information. The founder is Mike Adams, who also owns other websites, including Natural News and News Target, both which have been accused of publishing false news.
Mike Adams is known as the Health Ranger and Rationalwiki points out dozens of cases where his claims are false.
“Besides promoting pseudoscience, Freedom.News is an extreme right-wing biased source that frequently promotes false or misleading information regarding vaccines, climate change, and government conspiracies,
Rationalwiki notes.
Media Bias Fact Check rated Freedom.News “an extreme right biased tin foil hat conspiracy website that also promotes pseudoscience. This is one of the most discredited sources on the internet.”
A 2020 study by researchers from Northeastern, Harvard, Northwestern and Rutgers universities found that Natural News was among the top five most shared fake news domains in tweets related to COVID-19, the others being The Gateway Pundit, InfoWars, WorldNetDaily and Judicial Watch.