whatever his own beliefs, Trump will arrive in the White House with the backing of myriad people crying out for a holy war'. As Washington Post reporter Ishaan Tharoor described it in November 2016, Deus Vult 'has become a kind of far-right code word, a hashtag proliferated around alt-right social media and graffiti scrawled in public institutions. However, the alt-right has co-opted the phrase and used it in its hateful ideologies, as a hashtag on social media and even in public. Deus Vult is Latin for God wills it, which concluded a speech made by Pope Urban II that stirred the defenders of Christianity in the fight to win back their Holy Land from its Muslim occupants. Deus Vult, which has its origins in 11th century Europe, has an uncomfortable connotation for many, and has in recent years been associated with the alt-right movement.
