The party with a trifecta over all three branches of the federal government continues to claim it is a victim of anti-conservative discrimination, and in line with that messaging, a right-wing Christian leader has declared white men are the most persecuted group in the country.

The claim was made by Bunni Pounds, the founder of Christians Engaged, a group devoted to encouraging more Christians to vote. Pounds is also the Senior Vice President at the far-right Family Policy Alliance.

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“F**k you! Get out of my face!” she yelled at the man who asked if she was going to host any town halls this year.

“The hardest person to be right now in America is white males, right?” she said during an appearance on the Truth & Liberty Show. “You’re at the bottom of the food chain in the social justice world.”

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“But we shouldn’t discriminate against anybody,” she continued, “and what President Trump is saying is, you know, we should all treat each other with respect and love; we should have an equal playing field across. And some of these kind of woke and progressive agendas is actually hurting America. It’s dividing us, it’s hurting our relationships and our communities.”

She then declared: “Let’s go back to just seeing each other the way the founders decided we should see each other: as equal.”

White, straight, cisgender men are, of course, the least persecuted and most powerful group in the country. The Trump administration has been gaslighting the American people with its anti-DEI arguments, claiming giving marginalized people a leg up is anti-white and anti-male.

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