Hey Mr President! I represent evangelicals, televangelists and scientology like Kenneth Copeland, Joel Osteen, David Miscavige, etc.
We collectively call you out as a raping pedophile piece of shit living specimen who wouldn’t dare come after our tax-free status. FUCK YOU!
Unfortunately, it will only be the helpful and tolerant ones. TST, UU, Episcopal, etc. The worst will be supported and amplified.
And there we are…
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-trump-says-he-will-revoke-church-tax-exempt-status-if-leaders-say-something-bad-about-him
It would not surprise me if he started appropriating our taxpayer dollars towards them.
I don’t think he’d have the ability to target specific churches like that, he’d have to remove the blanket religious tax exemption so it would apply to all of them. I think the only way he could target specific churches is if he somehow got them reclassified as not religious institutions and I’m not sure how he would manage that. Doing that to something like the church of scientology is one thing, it’s already on shaky ground, but trying the same thing on something like the Episcopal church is something else entirely. Unfortunately I could see him maybe succeeding at getting TST reclassified.
I am not certain that a trivial issue like “that’s unconstitutional” is going to present any kind of impediment to him.