Destiny Church leader Brian Tamaki backs President Trump

Thursday, 26 January 2017

Brian Tamaki revealed himself as a Trump supporter in a Facebook attack on Peter Dunne.

Destiny Church leader Brian Tamaki has revealed himself as a passionate Trump supporter and hopes New Zealand will have a leader 'like him' one day.

Tamaki took to Facebook to blast United Future leader Peter Dunne, calling him a 'rat' and a 'pathetic specimen of a man', following Dunne posting an open letter to Donald Trump criticising the US President.

US President Donald Trump has the backing of Destiny Church leader Brian Tamaki

But Tamaki hailed Trump as a 'true politician'.

'It's time for this 'Rat' Peter Dunne to be turfed out of Parliament,' Tamaki wrote on his Facebook page.

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Insulting Dunne, as 'a weak … pathetic specimen of a man,' Tamaki said 'this sort of gutless politician is rife in our NZ politics and is responsible for a lethargic depressing kind of politics for sometime.'

'President Donald Trump is the closest thing of seen to a 'True Politician' and 'Leader' for a very long time..can only pray to God NZ would get one like him one day.'

Dunne wrote an open letter to Trump earlier in the week, saying Trump had adversely 'changed the nature of political discourse for years to come'.

Tamaki received massive backlash in November last year after he claimed 'human sin' - or homosexual activity - was responsible for natural disasters like earthquakes.

During a sermon, the day before the Kaikoura 7.8 earthquake, Tamaki said murderers, homosexuals and other 'sinners' were to blame for natural disasters.

'Leviticus says that the earth convulses under the weight of certain human sin,' he said.

'It spews itself up after a while - that's natural disasters. Because nature was never created to carry the bondage of our iniquity.'

Destiny Church then re-posted the sermon on Facebook after the quake, saying they had already predicted the earthquake would happen.

'As predicted during yesterday morning's service, the recent natural disasters are a sign that 'nature was never created to carry the bondage of our iniquity',' the post said.