Even Pat Robertson has a tough love message for Donald Trump: “It’s time to move on.”
The right-wing televangelist has admitted that President Trump has no chance of overturning his election defeat and warned him that the people have spoken.
“I think it’s all over. The Electoral College has spoken,” Robertson said on his long-running Christian conservative TV show “The 700 Club.” “It would be well to say you’ve had your day, and it’s time to move on.”
Robertson’s decision to dump Trump is significant because the Christian Broadcasting Network founder is a longtime supporter and holds sway with Trump’s #MAGA base of devoted supporters.
In the weeks before the Nov. 3 election, Robertson said he was certain Trump would win reelection to a second term, and later said that “God himself would intervene” to help Trump’s legal challenges to overturn Joe Biden’s victory.
Now, Robertson seems to be looking past the Trump era, offering some criticism of the “erratic” commander-in-chief.
He gave mixed reviews to Trump’s four years in the White House and urged Trump not to consider making a comeback run in 2024 as he has threatened.
“He’s done a marvelous job for the economy, but at the same time, he’s very erratic — he’s fired people, he’s fought people, he’s insulted people,” said Robertson, 90.
“He’s done a marvelous job for the economy, but at the same time, he is very erratic … So, it’s a mixed bag.”
Robertson insisted that Trump is not lying when he floats outlandish ideas about being robbed of reelection by Democratic-led fraud. Instead, he says Trump lives in an “alternate reality.”
“He doesn’t lie,” Robertson said. “To him, that’s the truth.”