Here is how Trump used claims of 'fake news' to create his dangerous cult of fanatics - Raw Story

Toward the end of the Second Great Awakening, a series of revivals that marked the first half of the American 19th Century, one Baptist preacher named William Miller confidently predicted that "Jesus Christ will come again to this earth, cleanse, purify, and take possession of the same, with all the saints, sometime between March 21, 1843 and March 21, 1844.” Based on his complex calculations derived from the Bible, the minister was certain that the millennium would arrive no later than that spring day, when melting snow often still blankets the woods of the preacher’s native upstate New York......
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/trump-used-claims-fake-news-create-dangerous-cult-fanatics/