***A Note Before We Begin***
Originally published 11/11/25. Introduction added May 2026.
This is the first original piece of writing produced for The Discerner — originally posted on our backup site, discerner.blog, bookmark it — on 11/11/25. I returned to Christ on 1/11/24. I’ll leave the numerology alone. I’ve learned to be more discerning about what I assign meaning to, which is, after all, the entire point of this publication.
I was a Trumper. First to troll people, then for the memes, then — genuinely, embarrassingly — out of the brainwashed hope that he was the hero against the deep state. That arc ran from 2016 to the time of writing, when the truth of the matter became harder to ignore. There are no white hats. White hats are just 33rd-degree Masons with better optics. For those with eyes to see and ears to hear, not swearing in on the Bible at the inauguration was the first domino — and the beginning of the unraveling of whatever hope I had projected onto the man. Psychological warfare is a bitch. But one must fall for the psyop to understand the psyop, and perhaps that is God’s will.
This investigation was me genuinely trying to put the pieces together myself — refusing to let any talking head do my thinking for me, which I had allowed in the run-up to the election. Thanks for nothing, Tucker. Thanks for nothing, Jones. At the time of writing I was still half-convinced the Butler assassination attempt was legitimate — perhaps divine providence, à la Pulp Fiction, rescuing a deep state renegade — before seeing it for what it really was: an occult ritual, a staged sacrifice of an innocent man to manufacture consent. Our good God, Christ, the Holy Trinity, would never sacrifice an innocent man in favor of someone of Trump’s character — a man deluded into prelest that he is King Cyrus himself. It makes me sick thinking about how completely I fell for it.
As time has passed since this essay was first posted, the question it poses has answered itself. A second staged assassination attempt is now being used to justify the construction of a proposed White House ballroom designed to resemble King Solomon’s Temple — the Temple that Freemasons claim, in their own doctrine, was built by Solomon as the legendary first Grand Master of the craft. The Triumphal Arch being erected in Washington reeking of paganism. And now Trump reading 2 Chronicles 7:11-22 from the Oval Office — a passage describing the conclusion of Solomon’s construction of the Temple and God’s covenantal response, held in particular regard in Masonic circles. Symbols multiply. The pattern holds.
I hope this article does for others what the research did for me: loosens the grip of the Trump cult one honest question at a time. That is the purpose of The Discerner — not to tell you what to think, but to make you think for yourself.
Without further ado. God bless you all. I love you.
“A Song of Degrees for Solomon. Except the Lord build the house, they that build labor in vain; Except the Lord guard the city, the watchman watcheth in vain.” — Psalm 126:1 (LXX)
The House Built on Sand
On January 19, 2025, in one of his final acts before leaving office the following day, President Joe Biden was photographed wearing his trademark Cheshire grin beside Victor C. Major, the 17th Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge Grand Master. Major stood in full Masonic regalia — a black top hat, an apron adorned with esoteric symbolism, and white gloves reminiscent of Mickey Mouse — whose creator had documented ties to Freemasonry — or Super Mario, whose company Nintendo’s games contain a surprising array of Masonic imagery. Biden was made a Master Mason on the spot for his “outstanding” service to the United States of America. The Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Florida posted the video to Facebook themselves, captioning it a welcome to the “Prince Hall Masonic Family.” Prince Hall lodges have historically been, and still are, Freemasonic lodges for distinguished African Americans.
What made the scene particularly curious was the political backdrop. Throughout the campaign season, before Biden was replaced by Kamala Harris, Donald Trump’s rhetoric — half pro-wrestling, half Hegelian dialectic disguised as democratic politics — relentlessly attacked Biden for his historical record on the African American community. His policies, enacted over decades, arguably caused more harm than good in policing and the criminal justice system.
The Roman Catholic community had its own eruption. Biden — only the second Catholic president in American history, and the first not to have his brains spilled out by the intelligence community — now stood as a member of a fraternal order whose prohibition by the Church dates back to a decree issued in April 1738 by Pope Clement XII. This ban has been reiterated in modern times, most recently by the Vatican in November 2023. But any sharp student of Christian history knows how deeply Freemasonry and related secret societies have already infiltrated Roman Catholic institutions, regardless of what an “infallible” pope might declare. The situation only worsened after the Vatican became entangled with the Rothschild banking cartel in 1831, as historian Daniela Felisini documented.
Regarding the link between Roman Catholicism and Freemasonry, one need only study Operation Gladio — an unholy alliance involving the CIA, the Knights of Malta, and the infamous P2 Lodge — to see how far that infiltration extended. Researcher Paul L. Williams’ Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance Between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia details this dark web in chilling depth. Read it.
Yet, as any Orthodox Christian and member of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church understands, Roman Catholics continue to struggle with their own history of corruption, abuse, and occult influence among the clergy, haunted by secret societies that have long embedded themselves in its institutions. Joe Biden is not the first, nor will he be the last. Many members of the Knights of Columbus have also been involved with Freemasonry, whose rituals and degree systems mirror those of the world’s largest secret society. To this day, Masons and the Knights of Columbus openly report “good relations.” And unfortunately, this Freemasonic infiltration has not spared the Orthodox world and the True Church, despite repeated official warnings from the Church of Greece and other local churches.
I bring all this up because I’m ashamed to admit that I’ve only recently awakened fully to the sham of democratic politics — much of which is psychological warfare designed to manufacture consent. The “left” and “right” teams squabble over social issues while their chosen heroes lead us in lockstep toward a one-world government and depopulation agenda. The 2025 Bilderberg Meeting press release, published on their own website, reads like a technocratic wish list.
Perplexed by Biden’s photo op, I asked myself: how much power do the Masons still hold behind the scenes? Is it all symbolic — a social club for elites — or are they still as powerful as they were in the 18th and 19th centuries? Operation Gladio suggests the latter, even if their methods have evolved. Their principles of global governance, elitism, and esoteric mysticism remain widespread, underpinning the world we live in today.
From New Age spirituality to the Bilderberg Meeting, the Trilateral Commission, and the Council on Foreign Relations — bodies none of us vote on — these oligarchical institutions hold far more sway over our elected leaders than we, the so-called free citizens, ever could. Their ideologies echo Freemasonic philosophy clearly to an Orthodox eye.
The Freemasonic spirit inspired and jump-started the Ecumenical Movement and the World Council of Churches, which the Orthodox Church entered under Patriarch of Constantinople Meletios Metaxakis — a Freemason initiated into Harmony Lodge No. 44 in March 1910, as the Greek publication Helleniscope documented in detail.
One of Freemasonry’s three core principles is belief in a “Supreme Being” — an intentionally unnamed god that allows all creeds to participate. This “Great Architect of the Universe” is not the Holy Trinity. It’s Deist, Unitarian, and perhaps something darker. Those with a somewhat polished nous can recognize what this vision seeks to replace Orthodoxy with — especially in an age when Vatican II declared that Catholics and Muslims worship the same god, when Muslim prayer rooms now exist inside the Vatican’s Apostolic Library, and when Pope Francis has claimed that Buddhists, Hindus, Jains, and Sikhs all walk legitimate paths to God. A Freemasonic lodge publicly hailed Francis’ work as “deeply resonant” with their own principles. Their words, not mine.
The Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi — a complex uniting a synagogue, a church, and a mosque — stands as a monument to this agenda. The blueprint for a coming “One World Religion.”
“For all the gods of the nations are demons, but the Lord made the heavens.” — Psalm 95:5 (LXX)
The Religious Liberty Commission
On May 16, 2025, President Donald J. Trump announced the Advisory Board for his Religious Liberty Commission. The selections deserve scrutiny.
Bishop Salvatore Cordileone, whose diocese filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy amid 500 sexual abuse cases. Pastor Jack Graham of Prestonwood Baptist Church, who in 2004 thwarted efforts to investigate abuse within his own congregation. Rabbi Eitan Webb, co-founder of Chabad House Princeton, whose organization openly advocates for the enforcement of Kabbalistic Noahide laws upon non-Jews. And Archbishop Elpidophoros of America — the only Orthodox representative appointed — infamous within Orthodoxy for performing the first openly homosexual baptism and for his enthusiastic participation in the World Council of Churches.
The Patriarch of Constantinople’s ongoing entanglement with Western intelligence, particularly the CIA, has been examined at length by journalist Michael Warren Davis in The American Conservative. It explains clearly enough why Elpidophoros was chosen. He aligns with the globalist agenda.
One of America’s greatest myths, besides the idea of being a “free nation,” is that it was founded as a Christian nation. It wasn’t. It was founded as a Freemasonic project. George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and many of the founders were members of lodges that worshiped a Deist god. The geometric layout of Washington D.C. follows Freemasonic design. The all-seeing eye and unfinished pyramid on the dollar bill makes that symbolism plain — this isn’t fringe observation, it’s documented history covered by JSTOR Daily among others.
Fifteen U.S. presidents and eighteen vice presidents are confirmed Freemasons, the most recent president being Gerald Ford. If the allegations of MK Ultra survivor Cathy O’Brien in Trance Formation of America are accurate, Ford was a special kind of monster — but O’Brien has since been paraded across disinformation circuits portraying Trump as a hero, and the truth, as always, may lie somewhere muddled in between. Ronald Reagan was made an honorary Mason. Bill Clinton was a member of the Masonic youth group Order of DeMolay. As of 2025, Joe Biden stands as an honorary brother of the Prince Hall lodge.
Because Freemasonry remains the largest secret society in history, still cloaked in ritual and silence, the whole truth is nearly impossible to know. Secret societies, by design, do not keep much public record. Today, truth seekers are funneled into digital echo chambers meant to discredit inquiry. Ask Grok whether Donald J. Trump is a Freemason, or pose the question on Reddit, and watch Masons reply with rehearsed modesty: “We can’t even plan our weekly meal, how could we control the world?”
Sure. Lower-level members don’t know what higher degrees do. Not every Mason is an elite. Some are just average Joes who seek purpose through ritual, standing shirtless and blindfolded at initiation in front of old men, reenacting a parody of the Resurrection for networking benefits. During my research, I found red herrings, blurred photos, doctored images, and disinformation designed to make honest inquiry appear deranged. Yet it’s clear that influences still operate behind the scenes — not necessarily through direct global control, but via a network of individuals across the military-industrial complex, NGOs, elite academia, and corrupt institutions who quietly shape our future in secrecy, sharing a common goal.
So this leads to the million-dollar question, and the focus of this essay.
Is Donald J. Trump a Freemason?
What credible evidence exists? Can we explore the question soberly, without hysteria, without inventing proofs or chasing shadows, while accepting that a smoking gun may not exist?
What are the red flags — or shall we say, orange ones?
Let’s investigate.
The Hero We Were Given
On May 22, 2019 — almost a full year before Operation Warp Speed and Donald J. Trump’s monumental push to inject every American with a mysterious mRNA product developed in record time, bypassing established safety protocols — President Trump stood in the White House and posthumously awarded a Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor to slain police officer Brent Thompson.
What matters here is that the late Brent Thompson was also known as Brother Brent Thompson — a member of the DeMolay Black Gold Chapter, the Masonic youth organization named after the last Grand Knight of the Knights Templar, and a Master Mason at Corsicana Lodge No. 174 in Texas. DeMolay acts as a youth pipeline and feeder system into Freemasonry once members reach adulthood.
Only a few months earlier, on January 3, 2019, another eyebrow-raising moment took place at the White House. Standing next to President Trump was Art Del Cueto, Vice President of the National Border Patrol Council — a labor union representing more than 820,000 federal workers. Pinned to Del Cueto’s lapel was the unmistakable square-and-compass Freemason emblem, displayed in plain sight, at a live press conference, not in secret. The White House’s own Facebook page posted the video.
This doesn’t necessarily prove Trump is a member of the brotherhood. But it suggests he is aware of their presence and has no objection to their operating within his administration or standing beside him in official settings. Del Cueto, representing more than 100,000 Border Patrol agents, chose to display his Masonic allegiance at a high-profile government event. If this is what we see publicly, what lies beneath?
This connects to a deeper issue. The Fraternal Order of Police — the largest police union in the U.S. with over 373,000 members across more than 2,200 lodges — carries a logo featuring a Masonic handshake and the all-seeing eye. As of 2023, roughly 865,000 police officers serve in the United States. The math suggests approximately 43% of American police are affiliated with Freemasonry.
In the United Kingdom, police officers’ Masonic memberships have drawn official scrutiny from the Metropolitan Police. Here in the U.S., Masonic affiliations are treated as badges of honor. When brotherhood supersedes justice, the law itself begins to tilt — offering privileges to initiates while the rest of us stand outside the lodge doors watching a hidden hierarchy masquerade as public service.
Bloodlines of the Builder
The phrase “Master Builder” clings to the Trump family like a watermark. Yes, they’re literal builders — a real estate empire born in New York City, a city long entwined with organized crime, where construction has often doubled as a vehicle for money laundering and intelligence connections, as the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project has documented extensively. But “Master Builder” isn’t just a poetic turn of phrase. In Freemasonry, a Master Builder refers to a Mason who has achieved significant advancement within the craft.
Fred Christ Trump’s 1999 New York Times obituary called him a “postwar Master Builder of housing for the middle class.” That precise phrasing is curious, given how charged it is within Masonic tradition. Coincidence? Maybe — if you believe in coincidences. Freemasons have always concealed symbols in plain sight for those “in the know” to recognize: the all-seeing eye on the dollar bill, the geometric layout of Washington D.C., the subtle lapel pins like the one worn by Art Del Cueto during a White House briefing.
For those who mock the term “conspiracy theorist” — a label the CIA weaponized to suppress inquiry into the JFK assassination, as documented in a 1967 CIA dispatch — one of the most obvious Masonic signatures is the recurring number 33. It’s the highest degree in Freemasonry, and its uncanny appearances in news stories, pop culture, and even early COVID case reports have not gone unnoticed. When symbols appear publicly, researcher Michael Hoffman calls it “Revelation of the Method” — a ritualized acknowledgment from secret societies, a coded message directed at initiates sworn to silence.
Donald J. Trump himself invoked the phrase “Master Builder” during the Charlie Kirk memorial, calling Charlie a Master Builder. Kirk wasn’t a builder in the literal sense. But his father, Robert W. Kirk, was an architect who helped design Trump Tower — a project that broke ground when Trump was 33. The tower officially opened in 1983. Exactly 33 years later, in 2016, Trump was elected President of the United States.
Barbara Res, handpicked by Trump at the age of 33, became the first woman to supervise construction of a prominent Manhattan skyscraper. Is this just another coincidence orbiting around the most sacred number in Freemasonry?
That Kirk memorial deserves its own article, but bear with me. Charlie’s wife, Erika Kirk, an actress who participated in a 2012 Trump beauty pageant, delivered a tearful eulogy wearing a Knights of Malta necklace. The Knights of Malta — officially the Sovereign Military Order of Malta — aren’t Freemasons per se, but they share deep historical connections and mutual recognition with Masonic orders, working closely together during Operation Gladio. The Knights of Malta swear allegiance to the Vatican, issue their own passports, and curiously, most if not all CIA directors have been members.
Before becoming a political operative, Charlie Kirk was an Eagle Scout. Since their inception, the Boy Scouts have been closely linked to Freemasonic structures. The official FBI narrative claims a man named Tyler Robinson killed Charlie Kirk. Tiler. Tyler. The Tiler’s Sword in Masonic tradition is used to guard the lodge doors and watch lips, ensuring secrets remain sealed.
And the city of Glendale, Arizona, where the WWE-style funeral spectacle took place, lies at 33° latitude. But hey, maybe I’m just crazy. Schizophrenic and straight up cuckoo for Coco Puffs.
Returning to the Master Builder theme: on August 7, 2025, The New Yorker called Donald Trump a “Master Builder.” His father’s funeral, held at Marble Collegiate Church, was presided over by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale — author of The Power of Positive Thinking. Gary Lachman, in Dark Star Rising: Magick and Power in the Age of Trump, identifies Peale’s “positive thinking” as a blend of Protestantism with metaphysical mind-over-matter idealism bearing strong resemblances to chaos magick. Trump has often credited Peale as a significant spiritual influence, having him officiate his first wedding. Peale was also a 33° Freemason, initiated as a Master Mason at Midwood Lodge No. 1062 in Brooklyn — whose phone number, interestingly enough, ends in 2666.
Maybe just a coincidence. Or not. MAGA isn’t only a political slogan. In the hierarchy of the Church of Satan, MAGA is the fifth and highest degree. Anton LaVey, the Church’s founder, once wrote in The Satanic Rituals:
“Passing off the Bavarian Illuminati as a purely political society is a blunder often made by those who naively think politics and ritual magic do not mix. Masonic orders have contained the most influential men in many governments, and virtually every occult order has Masonic roots.”
Trump’s grandfather, Frederick Trump, father of Fred Christ Trump, was expelled from Bavaria — the very birthplace of the Illuminati.
Maybe readers are rolling their eyes. So let’s take another example. Robert Moses, the famed New York urban planner who reshaped the city’s skyline and suburbs — his New York Times obituary also called him “Master Builder.” Moses helped secure the East River site for the United Nations Headquarters, a site tied to Alice A. Bailey, an occultist and Freemason whose Lucifer Publishing Company later became Lucis Trust, an NGO operating out of 666 United Nations Plaza — and that organization openly boasts about its support of the United Nations on its own website. Moses presided over the 1964-65 World’s Fair and built the Unisphere, both saturated with Masonic symbolism as the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum has documented. He worked closely with the Rockefeller family, who secured the UN land and whose foundation funded the German eugenics programs that Josef Mengele participated in before Auschwitz.
Moses’ funeral was held at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church — a denomination historically intertwined with Freemasonry. As California Freemason magazine admits openly, “Freemasonry was meant to be cross-denominational across Unitarians, Presbyterians, and Episcopalians.” Historian John Hackett put it plainly: “The original idea of Freemasonry was to span Christianity.” Robert Moses, a converted Episcopalian from Judaism, fit that mold perfectly. Donald Trump, once a Presbyterian, fits another. Two New York Master Builders, each steeped in faith traditions historically targeted for Masonic embedding.
Visit Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery in Middle Village, Queens, and you’ll find a 35-by-60-foot Masonic burial plot donated in 1881, marked by a granite monument. There, beneath modest gravestones, rest Fred Christ Trump, his father Frederick, his mother, and his brother. One brother is missing: John G. Trump. Cremated. A physicist with deep government ties, whom we’ll examine next.
Science and the Lodge
ohn G. Trump, Donald Trump’s uncle and Fred C. Trump’s brother, is a curious figure in the family lineage. On January 9, 1943, when Nikola Tesla died destitute and alone in a New York City hotel, the FBI quickly seized his papers and called on MIT professor John G. Trump to analyze the contents. It’s hard not to notice the strange Tesla–Trump–Musk parallels here, but let’s move on.
The FBI at that time was led by J. Edgar Hoover — director, cross-dresser, and longtime “bro-mantic” partner of Donald Trump’s mentor and lawyer, Roy Cohn. According to investigations detailed in Whitney Webb’s One Nation Under Blackmail, Hoover and Cohn met when Cohn was 23 and later ran an underground sexual blackmail network together, operating out of locations including The Plaza Hotel — the same Plaza Hotel that Donald J. Trump would later buy in 1988, one year after befriending upstanding citizen and international man of mystery Jeffrey Epstein. After Cohn’s death from AIDS, it’s widely believed that Epstein took over his sexual blackmail operations, which included pedophilic exploitation and hidden-camera kompromat targeting influential figures. Webb documents Cohn calling Trump his best friend.
J. Edgar Hoover was a Freemason, initiated at age 25 into the rank of Master Mason.
MIT, where John G. Trump taught, has its own Masonic lodge right on campus: the Richard C. MacLaurin Lodge, part of the Scottish Rite. That same Scottish Rite tradition connects directly to Mary Anne MacLeod — Donald Trump’s grandmother and the mother of both Fred and John — who hailed from Scotland, one of the earliest strongholds of Freemasonry.
According to his 1985 New York Times obituary, when John G. Trump died, his funeral was held at the Unitarian Church of Winchester, Massachusetts. Church records confirm he was a member of that congregation until his death. The Unitarian denomination, along with Presbyterians and Episcopalians, has long been intertwined with Freemasonry. Winchester church archival records show that in 1939, its Metcalf Hall hosted a Masonic banquet led by Worshipful Master Alan Wilde and Most Worshipful Joseph Earl Perry.
This influence extended beyond religion and into publishing. Beacon Press, the publishing arm of the Unitarian Universalist Association, has a long history of alignment with Freemasonry and liberal religious thought. To this day, the Winchester church website highlights its LGBTQ clergy as a selling point, as does Marble Collegiate Church, and also offers yoga classes.
Philosophically, critics have long described Freemasonry as Unitarian in theology. The National Christian Association, founded in 1868 to oppose secret societies including Freemasonry, explicitly listed the Unitarian Church among those it deemed deeply infiltrated. Freemason Horace Mann, the Father of Public Education, started the first public schools in Boston in the late 1830s. A Deist who rejected the need for a Savior and became a Unitarian, Mann embedded the same rationalist, universalist, “all-paths-lead-to-God” worldview into the foundational infrastructure of American public life. The same Enlightenment virus that shaped the so-called “great” American experiment.
John G. Trump’s professional network was steeped in Masonic connections. During World War II he worked under General Dwight D. Eisenhower, famously sworn in on George Washington’s Masonic Bible. He received high honors from King George VI, initiated into Navy Lodge No. 2612 and installed as Master Mason in 1921. He was also recognized by President Harry S. Truman — 33° Mason — who personally signed Trump’s Certificate of Merit in 1948. Truman, of course, was the same president who dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, then the most Christian region of Japan.
John G. Trump: highly educated, well-connected, honored by Freemasons in government, academia, and royalty alike.
So what about Donald himself?
Formed by the Architects
In August 1964, Donald J. Trump began his studies at Fordham University — a Jesuit institution whose historic ties to the CIA, FBI, and NSA are not conspiracy theory but documented fact. CIA documents declassified and available through the Agency’s own reading room show ongoing relationships with Jesuit institutions. Fordham has hosted the heads of all three agencies simultaneously, and Fordham alumni have ascended to lead the CIA.
The Jesuits have long been accused of infiltrating and manipulating governments since their founding by Ignatius of Loyola in 1540. Loyola’s Alumbrados connections — the Spanish “Illuminated,” believed by many historians to be a precursor to the Bavarian Illuminati — merge politics with mystical practice in ways that, as Anton LaVey himself admitted, Masonic orders have always exploited. Loyola also advocated imaginative prayer, a mystical practice that, practiced without discernment, leaves one vulnerable to demonic influence.
Frederick Trump, Donald’s grandfather, hailed from Bavaria — the very region that began cracking down on the Illuminati in July 1785 after authorities discovered their subversive aims when a member named Lanze was struck dead by lightning. His recovered documents prompted the Bavarian government to suppress the Order. Frederick Trump was officially exiled in 1905 for evading military service, but the regional connection remains curious nonetheless.
The Jesuit Order has long been suspected of maintaining an insidious relationship with Freemasonry, sharing similar hierarchical degrees and globalist objectives. The first Jesuit Pope, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, appears often in Williams’ Operation Gladio. Pope Francis has publicly called for a New World Order. His name also appears alongside endorsements of vaccination as “an act of love” — while the University of Pennsylvania, Trump’s next institution, licensed its proprietary mRNA technology for COVID-19 vaccine development.
Now, this is where the lines get interesting. The Fordham University seal closely resembles the letter “Q,” which brings to mind QAnon — the movement widely believed to be a large-scale psychological operation designed to manipulate potential dissenters, especially those with firearms, by convincing them that Trump is an outsider fighting against the deep state. In reality, he’s a controlled participant. This psyop eerily mirrors Operation Trust (1921–1926), a Bolshevik counterintelligence operation that created a fake anti-Bolshevik network to identify and neutralize genuine opposition as the communist regime consolidated power. And wouldn’t you know it, Freemasonry had a hand in the Bolshevik Revolution as well. Go figure.
Trump left Fordham after two years to transfer to the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Perhaps leaving the Jesuit institution marked a break. But if so, why did he later send Eric, Ivanka, and Tiffany Trump to Georgetown University, another Jesuit institution? The math doesn’t add up.
At Wharton, Trump graduated in 1968 with a Bachelor of Science in Economics. Wharton alumni include Elon Musk — you don’t say — and Warren Buffett, a self-professed believer in depopulation, along with executives from Google, Boeing, Pfizer, and General Electric. Wharton’s dean during Trump’s years later became president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. The school received Rockefeller Foundation funding — the same foundation that financed Josef Mengele’s eugenics research. Many Wharton alumni have served on the Trilateral Commission.
Three revealing facts about the institution deserve attention.
The University of Pennsylvania appointed Joe Biden to a comfortable no-show professorship from 2017 to 2019, just before his presidential run against Wharton alumnus Donald J. Trump, earning him over $900,000.
The university’s policy center runs FactCheck.org, which collaborates with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation — that Bill Gates, the supposed villain in Trump’s “heroic” war against the deep state, now seen smiling beside Trump at the White House.
And the University of Pennsylvania licensed its proprietary mRNA technology for the very COVID-19 vaccines Trump pushed on every American under Operation Warp Speed.
But wait! This is where Trump learned about the swamp, where he vowed to drain it and stand up for the blue-collar working class! Your evangelical Aunt Linda yells. But if that were true, why did Ivanka finish her studies at Wharton after Jesuit Georgetown? Why did Donald Trump Jr. also go to Wharton?
Freemasonry surfaces here too. University Lodge No. 51, a Masonic lodge located directly on the University of Pennsylvania campus, mirrors the Richard C. MacLaurin Lodge at MIT where John G. Trump taught. Wharton’s blue seal almost perfectly aligns with the lodge’s square and compass.
Academic institutions have long served as the gymnasiums of the deep state — training grounds for future global overlords. The same deep state many, myself once included, were deluded into believing Donald J. Trump was fighting.
If you still need a dose of reality, look no further than the early 1990s, when the Trump empire nearly collapsed before being bailed out by the Rothschild family — the same Rothschild M&A division responsible for bringing Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine Maxwell’s father, to New York. Tucker Carlson’s guest recently attacked Whitney Webb for making this claim, but Webb’s response, available on Rumble, is devastating in its sourcing.
By December 2000, Trump was back on his feet and attending a 94-guest dinner organized by Conrad Black, a member of the Rockefeller-funded Bilderberg steering committee. Trump sat at a table with Henry Kissinger, Lynn Forester de Rothschild, Happy Rockefeller, and the now-infamous Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
A literal who’s who of James Bond caliber villains.
Statues of Stone and Spirit
In 2020, during the orchestrated race riots following the death of George Floyd, protesters toppled and attempted to set fire to a statue of Confederate General Albert Pike — the man who, after the Civil War, became the Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite Freemasons. The statue, erected by Masons in 1901 after successfully lobbying Congress, was the only outdoor sculpture honoring a Confederate general in Washington D.C.
Donald J. Trump was outraged. He personally intervened, calling for the statue’s restoration. Pike is the same man who wrote in Morals and Dogma:
“Lucifer, the Light-Bearer! Strange and mysterious name to give to the Spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears the light, and with its splendors intolerable blinds feeble, sensual, or selfish Souls? Doubt it not!”
Albert Pike also declared:
“We always give the public their heroes. We give the heroes to every faction, and then people, once they hear this person say all the right things, we release them because he or she speaks for ‘me.’ We say, go there, go do that — and they do it. We give our power to the authorized heroes.”
Sound familiar?
Fast-forward to 2025. During Trump’s second term, an executive order led to the return of the Pike statue in Washington’s Judiciary Square, blocks from the U.S. Capitol, as the Associated Press reported in August 2025.
Around the same time, Trump’s Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced the reinstatement of a second monument — Religious Liberty, a statue by Moses Jacob Ezekiel. Ezekiel was a Jewish Confederate sculptor, a member of B’nai B’rith, and a Freemason — documented in a 2024 paper by the Virginia Research Lodge. The decision to restore not one but two statues tied to Freemasonry is unlikely to be coincidence.
Hegseth, an avowed Zionist, rationalized ongoing military actions in Gaza and the 2025 bombing of Iran as divinely ordained through a warped strain of evangelical “Christianity.” When shirtless photos of Hegseth circulated online, critics noticed the tattoo emblazoned across his chest — a red cross surrounded by symbols. It was the Red Cross of Constantine, a mark associated with a Masonic chivalric order that requires one to be a Master Mason first, as the Mark Master Masons’ Hall confirms on their own website.
Some dismissed it as Catholic cosplay. But Hegseth is linked to Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho, led by Doug Wilson — the controversial pastor whose brand of militant Protestantism has become synonymous with “Christian nationalism.” The same movement that emerged center stage at the Charlie Kirk funeral extravaganza, weaponizing heretical faith to manipulate believers through politicized “biblical” theater — distorting the Truth that remains safeguarded only within the Orthodox Church.
The Sorcery of Money
The Red Cross of Constantine traces back to the Knights Templar, the medieval order arrested in 1307 for heresy. They masqueraded as Christians but secretly blasphemed Christ, spitting and urinating upon the Cross during initiation rites. When expelled from France, many Templars fled to Scotland, where they laid the groundwork for Scottish Rite Freemasonry — carrying their esoteric rituals into a new guise, as historian David Livingstone documented in Transhumanism: The History of a Dangerous Idea.
The Templars were not just a military order but among history’s first bankers. They pioneered the financial infrastructure underpinning our modern economy. As journalist James Corbett explains, the Templars created an early banking network: crusaders could deposit gold at one commandery and withdraw it from another, birthing a system that evolved into paper notes and eventually fractional-reserve banking. From those medieval certificates of deposit emerged the sorcery of modern finance — the illusion of value conjured from nothing, a magic spell that binds humanity in debt. The same alchemy powers the Federal Reserve. As writer Michael Ruppert once famously said, “The Federal Reserve is no more federal than Federal Express.”
Historically the Templars’ lineage intertwines with the Knights of Malta — the same order symbolized by Erika Kirk’s necklace during her theatrical mourning in Glendale. Trump’s ancestry links directly to this nexus. His maternal line traces to Scotland, home of Freemasonry’s earliest lodges, while his paternal roots reach back to Bavaria, birthplace of the Illuminati. According to Rabbi Marvin Antelman’s To Eliminate the Opiate, the Illuminati were funded by the Rothschild banking cartel — the same dynasty that bailed Trump out in the 1990s.
His bloodlines merge from two lands saturated with secret society history, uniting in a family lineage rooted in architecture, hierarchy, and the doctrine of the “Master Builder” — which echoes through Masonic temples worldwide, built on a flawed foundation of shifting sand.
The Builder’s Seal
We’ve come this far without falling into the usual traps of disinformation or the wild speculation that makes most truth seekers easy to dismiss. The loudest defenders, of course, are evangelical Protestant MAGA loyalists — well-meaning perhaps, but lacking the sacramental grounding of Orthodoxy that shields against the spiritual confusion born from ritualistic occultism.
Many researchers have seen the grainy videos of Trump in what appears to be a red-and-white robe at what was claimed to be a lodge ceremony in Scotland in 2010. In truth, the footage comes from an event at which Trump received an honorary degree from Robert Gordon University — later revoked. It’s not a smoking gun. Using it as evidence only makes one look deluded. The university’s namesake, Robert Gordon, was a known Jacobite, and after their failed uprisings the Jacobite diaspora carried Masonic traditions across Europe, playing an instrumental role in the French Revolution itself.
Trump and Scotland are connected by blood and symbolism. Trump’s coat of arms for Trump International Golf Club features a double-headed eagle closely resembling the emblem of the 32° Scottish Rite Freemasonry — the Supreme Council of the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction has explained this symbol extensively on their own blog. He even engaged in a legal fight with the Court of the Lord Lyon, Scotland’s heraldic authority, over his right to use it.
I’ve intentionally avoided smaller signals that skeptics can dismiss too easily, like Trump’s steepled-V hand gesture. Some interpret it as a Masonic cue, others as a display of dominance. But when Eric Trump made the same gesture at the inauguration and his wife Lara quickly urged him to stop — as MSN Entertainment reported — the awareness behind the gesture was hard to miss.
Trump Tower’s penthouse begins on the 66th floor, its gilded decor soaked in pagan and classical motifs. The numerology surrounding the building — especially its link to 33 — remains unnervingly consistent.
Even the handshake between Joe Biden and Donald J. Trump during his return to the White House caught attention, with some noting its peculiar grip reminiscent of Masonic handshake traditions. Perhaps Joe was practicing what he learned at his Prince Hall initiation.
Then there’s The Apprentice. “Apprentice” is the entry-level degree in Freemasonry. A program about people competing for entry into an inner circle, striving to be chosen, initiated, and welcomed into the Order. Coincidence? I don’t believe in coincidences.
The Hidden Tree
And now to the פיל (elephant) in the room: Trump’s embrace of Kabbalah.
He married Ivanka into a family deeply tied to Chabad Judaism, received the Kabbalah “Tree of Life” award, and personally studied Kabbalah under Rabbi Eitan Yardeni, founder of the Kabbalah Center — famous for teaching Madonna, whose performances openly fuse Kabbalistic and satanic imagery.
Many truth seekers are awakening to Trump’s Zionist and Kabbalistic connections, especially in light of recent global events. His alignment with Jewish mysticism deserves its own essay. But what matters most here is that Kabbalah serves as the esoteric backbone of much of Freemasonry. Its doctrine of “man’s ascent” mirrors the ceremonial magic at the heart of the Masonic initiatory system.
Michael Witcoff, a former Mason, writes in On the Masons and Their Lies that these initiations, rooted in Kabbalah, often open practitioners to what he calls “minor forms of demonic possession.” Albert Pike himself — whose statue Trump fought to restore — emphasized Kabbalah as the foundation of all Masonic ritual, as documented in Morals and Dogma.
And so the circle closes.
From Bavaria to Scotland, from Jesuit halls to Wharton classrooms, from Pike’s Luciferian doctrines to the televised Apprentice initiation, Trump’s story unfolds as one continuous Masonic allegory. The builder, the initiate, the hero we were given. A man who rose to lead the free world under a seal older, darker, and far more deliberate than any ballot box could ever sanctify.
The Golden Age Rebuilt
Trump often speaks of a coming “Golden Age.” The Golden Age of Fraternalism — as documented by Harriett McBride in the Phoenixmasonry archive — refers to that period when Masonic and affiliated orders in America reached their zenith in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Membership peaked around the early 1900s, when nearly one-third of American men belonged to at least one order linked to Freemasonry. In 1901, the Albert Pike statue was erected near the U.S. Capitol. Was its placement a tribute not only to Pike but to the high-water mark of the Masonic age?
Trump’s admiration for President Andrew Jackson — whose portrait hung prominently in the Oval Office — adds another layer. Jackson was a Freemason, and his era witnessed the first significant backlash against secret societies: the rise of the Anti-Masonic Party in the 1820s and 1830s. That movement began after the mysterious disappearance of William Morgan in 1826, a man who had threatened to expose Masonic rituals publicly. His murder sparked outrage and birthed America’s first third party — dedicated to opposing what it saw as an undemocratic secret fraternity embedded in government.
Imagine that: a political movement not beholden to the Hegelian tug-of-war between left and right, not controlled by the same hidden hands. Yet any American today knows how difficult it is to escape the binary prison of Democrat and Republican — two wings of the same bird of prey.
Trump now names William McKinley as his favorite president, as the Associated Press reported in September 2025. McKinley, as you may have guessed, was also a Freemason. Out of fifteen officially confirmed Masonic presidents, Trump’s personal heroes account for two.
After Trump’s second inauguration, Elon Musk — Wharton alumnus and admirer of Roman imperial gestures — posted the Latin phrase Novus Ordo Seclorum: “A new order of the ages.” It is, of course, the motto inscribed on the Great Seal of the United States, beneath the unfinished pyramid and the all-seeing eye, printed on the back of every one-dollar bill. And on the front of that same bill? The face of George Washington, Master Mason and founding father of the republic.
The House Divided
Do you really believe a nation founded, mapped, built, and governed by Freemasons would ever allow someone outside their inner circle to hold power?
John F. Kennedy once warned: “The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society.” We all know how his story concluded.
Marina Abramović — performance artist, occultist, once photographed smiling beside Baron Jacob Rothschild in front of the painting Satan Summoning His Legions — described Trump as a “high magician” whose chaos would usher in a “new order,” as Greek News on Demand reported in September 2025. Chaos — as in Ordo ab Chao, the motto of the 33rd degree of Freemasonry, meaning “Order out of Chaos.”
So, is Trump the “given hero” that Albert Pike foretold? The chosen instrument of order through orchestrated chaos?
If I were a betting man — and I’m not — I know where I’d place my chips.
What emerges is not the portrait of a rogue populist, but of a system revealing itself through him. Trump is not an anomaly but an embodiment. A vessel of continuity stretching from the double-headed eagles of Scotland to the obelisks linking Washington, London, and the Vatican.
Freemasonry’s genius lies in its invisibility in plain sight. It hides not behind secrecy, but familiarity. Whether draped in religion, finance, or politics, it promotes the same belief: enlightenment without repentance, ascent without grace. The lower ranks join for business, influence, or belonging, unaware that they serve a much larger structure — a machine that operates through governments, NGOs, Silicon Valley technocrats, and global financiers alike, and perhaps one that ultimately pledges allegiance to the evil one himself.
“The stone which the builders rejected, the same has become the head of the corner.” — Psalm 117:22 (LXX)
Trump’s Bavarian and Scottish roots, Jesuit education, and Kabbalistic ties seem less like coincidence and more like continuation. The lodges of the eighteenth century gave way to the boardrooms and councils of the twenty-first. The structure remains the same; only the tools have evolved, and the deception has grown more profound.
The tragedy is not that one man deceived the world, but that the world longed to be deceived. We begged for a hero, and they gave us one. But heroes fashioned by power only serve power.
Some recoil from the so-called “black pill,” yet within that darkness lies a different kind of light — not the counterfeit radiance of illumination, but the pure, searing light of Truth.
“Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every house divided against itself will not stand.” — Matthew 12:25 (OSB)
Glory to God.