"A new administration has arrived in the USA, with a new value system, conservative views, and a deep Christian faith. Moreover, it has also come as a result of citizens' protests," writes political scientist Suren Sargsyan. He emphasizes that religion is not a factor in general. may not matter to the Trump administration.
Ultimately, 82% of evangelical Protestants said they preferred Trump.
The same applies to 61% of Catholics and 58% of non-evangelical Protestants. The whole process of Trump's inauguration was seasoned with a Christian theme. In addition to the traditional wordings of "God Bless America" and "So Help Me God", Trump thanked God for saving his life "I Was Saved by God", "We Will Not Forget Our God", "One Glorious Nation Under God", "People of Religion, Faith and Goodwill" and others.
"In his meetings with supporters, Trump promised to increase not only the political role of conservative Christians, but also their ideological influence.
He promised to forbid the use of other genders because God created only two genders, male and female. He promised to establish a federal commission to combat anti-Christianity and to give a greater role to young conservative Christian leaders. He also promised to save religion in America. He has already fulfilled some of these promises.
By the way, Georgian President Zurabishvili approached this issue very competently. He announced at the right time (one day before the inauguration) in the right place (on Republican Foxnews) that Georgia is the first Christian country in the world, laying a new ideological basis for forming relations with the Trump administration. :
Well, if they don't send such messages from Armenia, it should be done by others. Now, the authorities of Armenia openly supported the Democrats. I do not rule out that Ambassador Makunts from Washington assured that Harris will win. This is a fatal mistake and "plan B" naturally did not exist.
The Republicans are very well aware of this kind of attitude towards them. Makunts has such an unconcealed attitude towards the Republicans that he avoids taking part in their events on the embassy's Facebook page (even about participating in one of the official inauguration ceremonies among other ambassadors).
It is noteworthy that Makunts was appointed ambassador in 2021. and forced his term of office to be fixed at four years in a presidential decree.
Usually, ambassadors are not appointed for a term, the 2+1 tradition applies, and in general, the choice of the term of the ambassador's recall is a political decision. Having given up hope on "diplomats", I think that apart from our lobbyist and advocacy groups, the Armenian Apostolic Church can work very effectively with the Trump administration. the church, especially since Trump's contact with Aram I has already been successful, I am sure it will be successful with Garegin II as well.
By the way, in 1994, when the ARF activity was suspended in Armenia, the relations between the party and the government were no less tense than today.
However, to the credit of our first ambassador to the USA, Shugaryan and the leaders of the Armenian National Congress (ANCA), they found edges of cooperation for the sake of the Republic of Armenia, putting aside sharp political contradictions. The current ambassador could not find edges of cooperation with this influential structure in Washington." - writes the political scientist.
