A recent interview with Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA), who is also a reverend, on NBC’s Meet the Depressed makes clear that Washington’s one true religion is power. If articles of Christian faith get mangled along the way, well, that’s secondary.
Watch as host Kristen Welker cues Warnock up for another “deplorable”-style remark, this time basically labelling President Donald Trump’s supporters a “plague”:
“You said: ‘My faith is not a weapon. My faith is a bridge.’ You also say, quote, ‘Trumpism is a plague on the American conscience.’ How do you square those two ideas for people?” – @kwelkernbc to Senator @ReverendWarnock pic.twitter.com/DwUjQnKrCT
— Brent Baker 🇺🇲🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@BrentHBaker) December 14, 2025
KRISTEN WELKER: Senator, let me ask you about something else that you said in your speech. You said, “My faith is not a weapon. My faith is a bridge.” You also say, quote, “Trumpism is a plague on the American conscience.” How do you square those two ideas for people?
RAPHAEL WARNOCK: Yeah, as I point out, I think over the last several years, over the last 50 years and over the last year we have seen a deepening divide between what people need from their government and what government is delivering. There is a kind of corruption, legalized bribery that attends our politics. You see it in the frustrating fight to get basic health care for ordinary citizens. Truly, the wealthiest nation on the planet can afford to provide basic health care to its citizens. We suffer not from a poverty of resources, but a poverty of moral imagination. And I do think that Donald Trump, if he’s better at something than anybody else, it’s dividing us. And I think it is a distraction and while we are distracted and divided, we have literally witnessed the largest transfer of wealth in American history…
WELKER: Yeah.
WARNOCK: …from the bottom to the top, and people are fighting- they’re seeing their costs for healthcare are doubling while Congress engages in everyday political games. They’re seeing their utility costs go up, their grocery costs go up and meanwhile, the president is saying he would rate this economy an A+++. The question for me is, who is he talking about? Clearly his friends, the well-connected, the wealthy- certainly not the people that I see every day in Georgia.
Of course, there is no followup from Welker, who received no response to her original question. There is no wide-eyed pointing the pen at Warnock demanding he reconcile his positions. Instead, Warnock was allowed to deliver an ad-hominem attack against the half of the country that supports contrary policy positions.
In fact, Welker let out some sotto voce agreement with Warnock halfway through his rant, right at the point when he was denouncing the “largest transfer of wealth in American history from the bottom to the top.” He was presumably referring to the One Big, Beautiful Bill, but the real biggest transfer occurred during Covid. No fact-check from Welker at all, who moved on to the next question.
The biggest hypocrisy here is that Warnock was brought on, in part, to talk about how his faith informs his work in the Senate, and in context of a speech given at the Center for American Progress. He tried sticking to that script for a minute but ended up maligning half the country. Reckless words, given the current political climate of left-wing violence.
One wonders how Warnock “bridges” his faith with those of his Christian brethren and sisters who voted for ideas that he believes are a “plague”. It would’ve been nice for Welker to ask, rather than just nod along.
