SBC influencer William Wolfe wants an America of white people

This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on March 10, 2026.

“My boys all look like me. And I want my children to grow up in a country where they’re not minorities,” William Wolfe said out loud in a video now posted online. “I want my boys to grow up in a country where they don’t look like they’re the foreigners here.”

Wolfe, who heads the Center for Baptist Leadership, gave a presentation titled, “The Church’s Response to Mass Immigration,” for the True Texas Project at its “Year of the Patriot Conference,” held at The Woodlands Bible Church in The Woodlands, Texas, a suburb of Houston.

This nonprofit says its mission is: “In the spirit of the original Texians who valiantly defended their families, their lands, and their liberties, True Texas Project exists to educate and motivate citizen engagement in all levels of government.”

“I want my children to grow up in a country where they’re not minorities.”

Of its principles, the group declares: “We believe in Constitutional government, national sovereignty, fiscal responsibility, personal responsibility, and rule of law … all under the umbrella of faith and family values.”

When the video of Wolfe’s blatantly racist statement was shared on social media by “Right Wing Watch” and went viral, Wolfe predictably doubled down. “I APOLOGIZE FOR NOTHING,” he wrote in all caps. “What I articulate here is normal, good and common sense. Everyone feels the same way in their own home countries.”

Then echoing the words of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, he added, “America is for Americans.”

William Wolfe

Apparently, “Americans” are supposed to be white. Surely that’s a surprise to Native Americans.

Are the only true Americans those who look like Wolfe and his boys? It’s a fair question, given Wolfe’s words and given the Trump administration’s constant social media posts of artwork depicting an idealized America made up of people who exclusively look like Wolfe and his boys.

The original post by Right Wing Watch claimed, “Christian nationalist former Trump administration official William Wolfe says that millions of immigrants must be deported in order to ensure that his children ‘grow up in a country where they’re not minorities.’” According to Wolfe, the Right Wing Watch characterization of his quote was “misleading.” He didn’t clarify how their characterization was misleading. Instead, he simply shared a link to the talk in its entirety.

Wolfe, by the way, earned a master’s degree at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and is a former intern to seminary President Al Mohler. Wolfe and the Center for Baptist Leadership are well-known advocates for extreme complementarianism in the Southern Baptist Convention.

Living in an embodied world

When we consider Wolfe’s statements in light of his larger presentation and ongoing work, his rhetoric echoes themes long present in white supremacist movements, including the KKK.

“His rhetoric echoes themes long present in white supremacist movements, including the KKK.”

“As Christians, we often emphasize and prioritize, rightly in many ways, things like missions and evangelism and discipleship and church planting and spiritual endeavors,” he said. “But we are not just spiritual beings. We live in an embodied world and a physical world.”

In Wolfe’s world, his boys all look like him. But what Wolfe doesn’t seem to care about is that this isn’t the case for all families in the United States, even for all white families.

While my dad’s side of the family is from England, my mom’s side of the family is from Lebanon and Syria. So two of my brothers are white and blonde, while the other two are darker skinned. All my official documents say I’m white. But for many years after 9/11, I was constantly pulled into the more specialized security lines. And people jokingly called me a terrorist.

When I worked on construction sites, Hispanic people often approached me speaking Spanish. Of course, that didn’t offend me. They assumed based on the color of my skin that I was a Spanish-speaker like them.

My point is simply that my skin color communicated a reality my official documents did not. I’m labeled a white man, but I experience life as the “other.” And my two blond brothers have no idea what this is like, despite the fact we’re all related by blood.

It would be nice if white conservatives like Wolfe, and indeed even my white conservative family members, would recognize this reality of living in an embodied world where those with darker skin are looked down on with suspicion and seen as “other.” But unfortunately, white conservatives like Wolfe seem to be more concerned with experiencing life unsullied by us.

William Wofle in the Oval Offifce with Donald Trump in January.

The dumping ground of the world

“The United States cannot be the dumping ground of the world,” Wolfe proclaimed, seemingly equating immigrants to trash and our melting pot to a landfill — echoing talking points of President Donald Trump.

“The United States cannot be the dumping ground of the world.”

He cited the GOP platform’s call for “the largest deportation operation in American history” and suggested Trump’s mass deportations are “the only way we get out of this mess.”

What “mess” is he referring to?

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