idolater

“That Trump has been, his whole adult life, an idolater of this sort, and a singularly unrepentant one, should have been clear to everyone.”

“We’re born drinkers and gamblers, profaners and idolaters, liars and thieves, all hateful in the sight of the Lord, every one of us, down to the smallest.”

The Protestant theologians preached that husbands and wives who loved each other too much were sinful idolaters.

“Well, you might be an idolater,” Jacob said at last.

As with the president, much of Musk's PR work is performed not by the braggadocious billionaire himself, but by his idolaters and by the media.