It is a collaboration between ReelWorksStudios and Liberty University's Cinematic Arts program, and is the school's second involvement in a theatrically released motion picture after another Christian film, Extraordinary (2017).

The film stars Chris Nelson as Taylor, who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after a house fire that kills a young boy (Landon Starns).

By the time near the 2016 election, Mary Colbert (Paulette Todd) learns about the message and starts a national prayer chain to make God's wish of Trump becoming president come true.

Taylor spends the next six years descending into his PTSD-infused situation, facing hypersomnia and nightmares about being taken hostage by a fire demon from hell (Darrell Nelson) while watching television to numb the illness.

Mary Jo notices these episodes and prays to God to help her husband; the prayer works, as Mark dreams about a glowing orb that explodes electrical energy onto him.

[11] The prophecy was that on April 28, 2011, while listening to a television interview with American businessman Donald Trump, he heard God say that "you're hearing the voice of a president" and that a stronger relationship between the United States and Israel will occur in the future.

[12] Taylor gave her the journals of God's messages, and she felt they needed to be spread around to the world; thus, she started a phone-based prayer chain that garnered approximately 100,000 callers per day, a number so high it shut down two servers.

[12] Trump won, and after the 2016 election, numerous evangelical leaders such as Richard Land, Franklin Graham, and Robert Jeffress made statements that God was responsible for the Republican nominee's victory.

[15] The Cinematic Arts program first announced a film adaptation of the real-life Taylor's book The Trump Prophecies (2017) on January 26, 2018; it revealed that it was going to be named Commander and have its theatrical release date be in October.

[2] The Trump Prophecy is a production of Rick Eldridge's ReelWorks Studios, in cooperation with the film department of Liberty University, the evangelical Christian school founded by Jerry Falwell.

[12] The Trump Prophecy's official press release marketed the film as "an inspirational message of Hope, highlighting the vast beauty and greatness of The United States [and] its electoral process.

The same type of reasoning has been used by people close to Trump, such as Jeff Sessions, Paula White, and Robert Jeffress, to excuse his actions, such as the family separation policy.

[18][7] Art lecturer and writer Emily Pothast categorized The Trump Prophecy as "an accidental advertisement for a quasi-socialist utopia", as it shows American public sector workers like Mark Taylor being very wealthy and having easy and heavily encouraged access to health care by the time they retire.

[7] Using promotion from channels like Fox News Radio and The Blaze, and evangelical leaders such as Jim Bakker,[10] The Trump Prophecy was screened by Fathom Events in 1,200 theaters throughout the U.S. on October 2 and 4, 2018.

[18] A review from The Film Magazine was a detailed summary of technical problems of the movie, not only of the amount of filler but also the "shallow and pedantic" dialogue, poor acting, "amateur" and "dull" shot composition, and the unintentionally funny visual effects.

[17][14] While Eldridge predicted the backlash The Trump Prophecy received,[11] he explained that the film was meant to ask "a divided nation" to pray for authority because humans are "called" to do so in the Bible.