Reacting to a spate of executive orders from President Trump, white Christian nationalist Andrew Isker compared him favorably to Richard Nixon. Isker claimed that “Trump’s second term is the Nixon second term we never got to have,” and called the Watergate scandal, which led to Nixon’s 1974 resignation, a “coup”

Isker and his Contra Mundum co-host, C. Jay Engel, praised Trump for revoking a Johnson administration executive order which banned discrimination in federal contracting

“And, I don’t know if we talked about it on Monday, but the executive order about ending affirmative action. Did we talk about that?” Isker asked

“They just axed that,” Engel replied

“Yeah, it’s just gone,” Isker said. “Right? So LBJ’s executive order that he wrote immediately after the pass of the Civil Rights Act. Right? It’s been there. Ronald Reagan didn’t do anything about it. You know, I mean, even Nixon, I know, you know, he won. The silent majority put him in office. He didn’t do anything about it”

Despite this criticism of Nixon, both Isker and Engel lamented that he failed to finish his second term[…]
“That’s such a tragedy of history that we never got to see that,” Engel said of Nixon’s second term

“No. I mean, this is the — Trump’s second term is the Nixon second term we never got to have,” Isker declared. “Right? 40 years later. Or 50 years later. … And I mean, this is why the guy in ’72 is because of Watergate because he spied on the Democrat. He won every state”

Isker and Engel also defended Nixon over the Watergate scandal, calling on all “files” related to it to be “released” and falsely referring to it as a “coup”