Trump Signed a Painting of Jesus. Seriously.
Thank God I'm Atheist
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4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
What happens when Trump desecrates a painting of Jesus? Billionaires line up to buy it. At a Mar-a-Lago New Year's Eve party, Trump signs a painting of Christ—offering a very public glimpse at how faith, money, and power now intersect.
From there, it's a week of religion doing what it does best: embarrassing itself in public. A failed doomsday prophet in Ghana finds out there are consequences when the apocalypse doesn't show up, Iran's theocratic regime faces mass protests fueled by hunger and economic collapse, and conservatives melt down after New York City's new mayor commits the ultimate sin—taking his oath of office on the "wrong" holy book. Plus, Marjorie Taylor Greene stumbles into a moment of clarity about Trump's faith, Chick-fil-A makes things awkward again, and we ask—once more—what any of this is actually doing to the country.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody. |
| 0:02.0 | Hi, everybody. |
| 0:19.0 | Hi, friends. Well, from beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah. |
| 0:22.8 | It's thank God I'm atheists. |
| 0:24.7 | Where we, a couple of atheists, just try to make sense of this increasingly bizarreo Christian world that we live in here in the United States of America. |
| 0:35.2 | I'm Frank Feldman. |
| 0:36.4 | And I'm Dan Beecher. |
| 0:38.0 | And coming up on the show today, Dan, New York City has a new mayor. |
| 0:44.3 | And he took his oath on a Quran. |
| 0:48.5 | And the world went apeshit. |
| 0:53.4 | There didn't need to be a negative |
| 0:54.9 | thing that came of it, but there was. |
| 0:57.6 | But there was. And some of it, |
| 1:00.6 | like some of it's unsurprising. Some of it |
| 1:03.0 | surprised even me. Like there were a couple of reactions |
| 1:06.1 | where I was like, what is it that you think is happening |
| 1:09.5 | right now? |
| 1:14.3 | Anyway, we'll be getting to that on the second half of the show. |
| 1:14.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:19.8 | But first, we have some news of the week, things that have happened, Dan. |
| 1:23.3 | A new or two, as we need to talk about. |
| 1:23.7 | Yeah, yeah. |
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