So, you know, again, she's not political, but Trump is going to get rid of the Johnson Amendment, which she's super into.

So there's an essential misunderstanding that Alex has about the rules for churches and other charitable organizations that get to enjoy a tax-exempt status, which were all laid out in what's known as the Johnson Amendment. He thinks that the rules say that churches can't talk at all about politics or social issues. But that is not and has never been the rule. The amendment is specifically about these sorts of organizations engaging in partisan political activity. If a church is against abortion, they can be against abortion. They just can't use their church to support a specific anti-abortion candidate or attack a pro-abortion candidate or replace candidate with measure or whatever. They can't use it for political advocacy.

On May 4th, 2017, Trump signed an executive order saying that the Secretary of the Treasury shouldn't really enforce the 501c3 rules, which most experts agree is really just a symbolic act, and it's more just pandering to his base. Oh, he would never do that, though. Even the ACLU said it, quote, had no discernible policy outcome.

So he's talking about the Johnson Amendment. That's what Trump had an executive order loosening. And the Johnson Amendment, for everyone who doesn't know, has to do with churches as part of their 501c3 status that they can't advocate for or in opposition to any candidate in public office. That's the major part that they really hate.

That's one part of it, but it was put forth in 1954. And if you think about what was going on in 1954, you had a lot of World War II. You had a lot of Christian organizations in heavy quotes who were not super into equal rights. I can't think of any of them with three initials that were not into Amway? Yep, that's it. Okay. So you had sort of agitating groups hiding under the auspices of Christianity. And I think a large portion of lynching under the auspices of Christianity. I think one of the good things that the Johnson Amendment is capable of is sort of trying to split up some of that.

Lie about it being what he signed the stripping of the Johnson Amendment.

Yeah, and unfortunately, people like Apollo or people like Jim have much deeper things that they want. They have issues that they care about that are not so much about being religiously based or anything like that. The reason that Jim almost jizzes on himself with that pen, signed the stripping of the Johnson Amendment. It was a great pen, though. Is because what he cares about is using the church that he has in a political way because that will allow him to open up so many more vistas of fundraising. There's so many more things that he'd be able to do in a tax-free environment if he's able to not have the IRS breathing down his neck about what you can and can't say.