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Arwa Mahdawi

Pete Hegseth just took his personal crusade to a new level

Pete Hegseth on stage
‘I’m an atheist but the way things are going the end times are beginning to sound appealing.’ Photograph: Alex Wong/Pool Getty Images North America/AP

Apart from money and McDonald’s, there’s nothing Donald Trump seems to love more than a “big, beautiful” wall. The government is currently spending billions of taxpayer dollars to fulfill the president’s fantasy of lining the US-Mexico border with 30ft steel bollard walls and high-tech surveillance.

What the Trump administration is apparently not so keen on is the wall of separation between church and state. While the president may hawk bibles as a side hustle, he is not exactly devout; he serves only mammon. The top levels of his government, however, are stuffed full of religious fanatics who appear hellbent on remaking the country as a Christian theocracy.

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