If you watch the right wingers, they believe Trump has been elected and will be re-elected because of Jesus.
Well, some of them, sure, but:
Was Jesus an habitual liar, a narcissist and adulterer?
Maybe.
For our purposes, no, except kind of yes, but that might be a bit subtle; it's definitely more subtle than the right-wingers you refer to.
Or, is Trump an honest person, only looks out for others and has never had any extramarital affairs?
That's actually either irrelevant to your question, or woven into God's purpose. That is,
vis à vis the belief that
Trump has been elected and will be re-elected because of Jesus, the relationship between Trump's personal character and the presidency is still a matter of God's will.
Consider James R's take:
According the author, since God has made the decision, good Christians should accept it and support their new President.
Now, it’s always easier to submit and to pray for someone when he was our preferred candidate. But the rubber really meets the road when the person who takes office is not the one we supported. Paul didn’t give us any wiggle room — his command [to obey God's chosen rulers] applies all the same, whether the emperor was the faith-friendly Constantine or the evil emperor Nero.
God wanted Biden to be President, and now Trump Christians should get with the Lord's programme!
It follows, of course, that God also wanted Hitler to rule Germany (at least for a while), and He supports Putin and Kim Jong-un, at least for the time being. We all need to accept that this is part of God's Master Plan.
Said author is, after all, Robert Jeffress, who once described President Obama as paving the way for the antichrist, and if in the present
he might advise↱—
Here is our chance to show that Christians are not hypocrites. We serve a God who remains on His throne, sovereignly reigning over every square inch of this vast universe. We serve a God who loves us and will never leave or forsake us. And now we have the chance to show the consistency and constancy/ of our Christian witness to this world.
—demonstrations of piety for the sake of mortal witness, well, we ought not be surprised.
There are a couple points worth comparing:
1) Jeffress is not wrong insofar as God's will is God's will.
2) The consistency or constancy of Christian witness to the world, the demonstration that one is not a hypocrite, is not entirely an act of wilful piety for the sake of being seen; in letting yea be yea, and nay be nay, yes, a certain moral consistency is important. But at no point in his FOX News article does Jeffress remind Christians to trust God; this is not surprising, as the value traded here is authority and obedience. The American conservative Christian flock is largely faithless, its political activism a desperate scrabbling for authority, a neurotic usurpation demanding satisfaction. In the end, what is important to Jeffress is earthly success: "If President Biden succeeds, we all succeed." Mayhaps, but that wasn't necessarily true of President Trump, and, moreover, it seems that any president instituted by God serves God's purpose more than anything else, so if some material success and benefit is part of the Plan, all the better for us. But that makes some people feel small and insignificant and insecure, which in turn is why they need gods to usurp. I mean, er ... that sort of faith is very disruptive of the personal relationships with the feelgood idols of personal aesthetics built up over the years in modern relativist Christendom.
What we find—
This is just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak, as we can delve much further into any number of characteristics and traits Trump has revealed about himself and compare them with Jesus.
—when we add up all those scraps according to their market value is a sketch of the priorities various believers attend.
This can become a question of letting those we know are wrong set the terms of discussion: Abiding their terms, even in dispute, only entrenches them.
The members of all communities, including nations and whole civilisations, are infused with the prevailing ideologies of those communities. These, in turn, create attitudes of mind which include certain capacities and equally positively exclude others.
The ideologies may be so ancient, so deep-seated or so subtle that they are not identified as such by the people at large. In this case they are often discerned only through a method of challenging them, asking questions about them or by comparing them with other communities.
Such challenge, description, or questioning, often the questioning of assumptions, is what frequently enables a culture or a number of people from that culture to think in ways that have been closed to most of their fellows.
―Emir Ali Khan
Jeffress emphasizes authority, obedience, and worldly concerns; while this does not surprise, neither does our weary familiarity or roadworn cynicism change that the preacher gives bad advice.
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Notes:
Jeffress, Robert. "Biden is president-elect — how should Christians respond?" FOX News. 7 November 2020. FOXNews.com. 26 November 2020. https://fxn.ws/2V9dUCR
Khan, Emir Ali. "Sufi Activity". Sufi Thought and Action. Edited by Idries Shah. London: Octagon Press, 1990.
