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Who is Pat Robertson? Televangelist predicts Trump win and world's end, Internet says 'vote Biden to save planet'

Robertson founded the Christian Broadcasting Network and is an avid supporter of Trump. He has also made several prophecies about the end of the world that have failed to come to pass

Far-right televangelist Pat Robertson has predicted that "God" has told him about the result of the presidential elections that President Donald Trump will be re-elected. "First of all, I want to say without question, Trump is going to win the election," Robertson said to viewers during a segment on the chat show ‘The 700 Club’ on CBN News on October 20. 

The 90-year-old Robertson, who founded the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) and has been a supporter and defender of Trump, also made prophecies about the end of the world. “What I think very frankly is the only thing that will fulfill the word of Jesus … is some kind of asteroid strike on the globe," he told. "It’s sudden destruction. It’s not going to be some nuclear war. We’re not going to be allowed to blow this earth up."

This is not the first time that the Trump loyalist has made such prophecies. He has made predictions in the past which have been proven to be wrong. In 1976, he prophesied that the world would end in 1982. Furthermore, in his book, 'The New Millennium' ,he said the world would be reportedly destroyed on April 29, 2007. 

Since he has been proven wrong in the past, this is presumably the reason that he described the destruction that the asteroid will cause, saying it can lead to “then, maybe the end” which he said with a speck of doubt. 

Roberson said that more than five years will pass between the end of the election and the deadly asteroid’s bombardment. He went on to predict that dreadful civil disobedience and unrest will harbinger after the election. Moreover, he mentioned that there will be at least two attempts on Trump’s life and the war against Israel will end only when God intervenes, according to a report by USA Today. Concluding the segment, Robertson said, "I think it’s time to pray."

After his comments dropped about Trump’s reelection, here is what we found about Pat Robertson.

Who is Pat Robertson?

Marion Gordon Pat Robertson was born in 1930. He is a media personality, televangelist, political commentator and a former Republican presidential candidate. Pat, as he is commonly known, was born to a political family with his father Absalom Willis Robertson having served at both the US House of Representatives and the Senate.

After graduating from Washington and Lee University in 1950, Pat started the country’s first Christian television station in Virginia that later got build into CBN. Its highlight was its chat show, ‘The 700 Club’. Pat’s tryst with politics began during 1980s. He resigned as a minister to run for the Republican presidential nomination in 1988 as reported by Britannica. At that time, his campaign emphasized on conservative issues like opposing abortion and supporting school prayer.

After a good start, Pat lost much of his support base and eventually withdrew from the race in February 1988. After that, he founded the Christian Coalition, an influential conservative political organization, and served as its head until 2002. In 2007 he stepped down as CEO of CBN and was replaced by his son Gordon Robertson. 

Pat has courted many controversies in the past. After the deadly September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001, Pat and a fellow of his evangelist Jerry Falwell were slammed for apparently agreeing that the tragedy had been caused due to the liberals. This included those involved in practices of abortionists, feminists, homosexuals and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Britannica reported. 

In 2010, Pat was blasted over his controversial remarks on the Haiti earthquake. The televangelist said Haiti had made a “pact with the devil” to defeat French colonizers in a 1791 slave rebellion. “Ever since they have been cursed by one thing after another,” he said. However, even the White House criticized Pat over this, according to CS Monitor. 

Pat’s life mission statement reads: “I want to be part of God's plan of what He is doing on earth, and I want to bring Him glory.” The Internet is currently slamming him and bringing up all the past records where he has gone wrong. A user wrote bashing Pat and his false predictions, “In 1976 Pat Robertson predicted that the world would end in October or November of 1982. In 1990 he wrote in a book that the world would be destroyed on April 29, 2007. Keep sending him money folks!” 

Another wrote against Pat, “As someone who is far more powerful than Pat Robertson in that my sexual orientation provides me the agency to create hurricanes, I can confirm he is wrong and Trump will not be reelected.” A user wrote about him and his support for Trump, “Pat Robertson is a nut. A loon. A fraud. DonaldTrump All the nutty Pastors in the world can’t save you. It’s all going down. You are losing.”

A user quipped, “Pat Robertson engaging with the lord.” A user wrote against Pat, "100% sure that God doesn’t spend a fleeting fraction of a second talking to grifters like Pat Robertson." Another added, "So what I’m hearing here is vote Biden to save the planet."