This paper examines African American voters' surprisingly strong support for Donald Trump in the 2024 elections, and some of its religious dimensions, noting this against a fuller backdrop of unanticipated points of affinity across America's racial divide. Social policy affinities were not surprising between Trump-style conservatism and the third of black Christians supportive of restrictions on gay rights and on immigrant expansions within the US, or with the almost 50 percent of black Christians inclined toward restricting gay rights. But what may have been less anticipated was support from influential black popular culture figures and camps for a Trump agenda fundamentally at odds with core premises of the freedoms, rights, and democratic culture that have proven so essential to African American voice, agency, and empowerment. The presentation explores ways this trajectory of black support for Trump's politics may stem from black identifications with Trump's counter-culturalism, creating intersections at points between politically aggrieved segments of black and white populations. Though emanating from different starting points, cross-cutting dimensions of black and white political grievance (especially a distrust of America's political establishment and normativities) will be seen here as achieving common cause at points with Trump's anti-establishment politics and its defiant stance toward presumed impositions of liberal racial, sexual, and gender orthodoxies. Attention is paid also to the bolstering and amplification of black support for Trump by black sports and HipHop figures, and especially where resonances exist with his iconoclasm and projections of strength.