Madison Prewett: The MOST TOXIC Christian Influencer

I cannot love Maddie in my own strength. If I try and love Maddie with all that Grant has, I will be short. I will blow up on her. >> You know, you could just choose not to do that. >> Does he have like this this swag? Like, does he >> She don't know. >> Does he have this like, you know? >> Yeah. And And I think my tongue got looser. My tongue lashed out. Has anyone else seen random clips for the last few years of Madison Puit and her husband Grant Trout saying some of the most unhinged things? >> Mama get her, which will be hilarious when we start spanking Jose, which we will. >> Now, most recently, and what made me want to make a video like this, I saw a clip of Madison Puit speaking at the Freedom 250 Great American State Fair to an audience of I think literally zero. Madison Puit made an in very interesting public speaking appearance at Trump's The Great American State Fair. She spoke to a crowd of what looks to be about four people, which made me wonder who is actually following Madison Puit and her husband and agrees with some of the bizarre things they say. And what is their deal? Madison Puit Trout first became known as a season 24 Bachelor contestant in the Pilot Pete season which aired in 2020. Afterwards, she went on to marry billionaire Grant Trout and become a podcast host, author, and Christian lifestyle influencer. And when I submitted to my husband, I actually found the security that I was craving. And it wasn't in my nagging. It wasn't in my controlling. It wasn't in my feminist # relationship goals. When Maddie was on The Bachelor season 24, she ended up eliminating herself because Peter Weber was sexually active and she was saving herself for marriage, which is respectable. I think a lot of people watching the season respected that move. >> I don't want us to feel like we have to like work into overtime to like love each other. That season was also how Maddie Puit started her influencer journey, mainly preaching about Christianity and ultimately overall purity. >> One of the biggest questions that I got asked when I came off the show was, "Maddie, how are you able to stand firm in such a high pressure environment?" Most individuals don't have a problem with anyone choosing to practice purity culture, saving themselves, being anti-lust. But the problem becomes when they begin to preach those sort of values out to other people who never asked to be involved in this. Like that's your sex life. That's not my sex life. Let's have some boundaries. You do you, but don't put that on to me. And I think that's really ultimately where the problem lies when it comes to purity culture. Maddie Puit is a great example of this in the worst ways possible. And the same goes for you. Who you are when everyone is around is who you're going to be when no one is around. And that's why our private life moments are so important. Why go on the Bachelor in the first place? A show whose premise is that a man dates multiple women at the same time, which involves the possibility of fantasy suites, aka implied, especially when the previous lead has a reputation for doing it four times in a windmill. I mean, I think we all know why Mattie Puit went on the Bachelor, and it was to sort of kickstart this entire Christian influencer journey. She knew Peter Weber's background. He did it four times in a windmill, which sounds pretty spicy. So, Maddie Puit knew all of this. Why did she decide to ride out an entire season with someone who she knew going into it didn't believe in any of her values? Well, that's obvious. Fame. kickstarting this entire career where she's going and speaking at events about how great she was for being so pure on the Bachelor where the entire premise is that you are interacting in a sort of relationship dynamic that is very out of the ordinary. During the premiere of her Bachelor season, Madison posted photos from her one-on-one date with Peter Weber. Then there was a comment under this post by her own account, "Beautiful date, Maddie. You are so genuine and real." A lot of fans think that Madison Puit was running her own fan account and was intending to post a comment under the photo from a fan account of hers, which again just adds to that idea that the reason why Madison Puit was doing all of this was just to try and achieve some sort of fame. But because of this entire experience on the Bachelor, Mattie Puit became known as the ultimate pure girl, I guess, the ultimate purity culture influencer. She was largely seen as pretty respectable until she got engaged to Grant Trout and they decided it would be a good idea to get two microphones and a camera and share all of their inner thoughts with the world. >> Mommy does not enjoy having to spank you, but there are consequences. >> And that's when people realized maybe this is not the ultimate influence that I should look up to. Grant was born in Dallas, Texas, and is the son of Kenny Trout, a self-made billionaire with a reported net worth of around 1.7 billion. Kenny Trout founded the long-distance telecom company, Excel Communications. After he made his money, he ended up investing a lot in thoroughbred horse racing. Grant, on the other hand, decided to pursue his passion of ministry, as you can tell by the way he talks. He became a speaker and Christian minister and mainly was doing his ministering to athletes. After getting in a relationship, the couple decided to co-host the Stay True podcast, which you know, it's an authentic and great relationship when two influencer couples constantly get on a camera and talk about their relationship. Madison Puit Trout, and I am here with a very special guest, the one and only, >> yes, >> Grant Michael Trout. >> It's good to be here. And I have the biggest smile on my face if you're watching the video because this is so special for me. Get them into our story because you tell it so good. >> Young G, I was 25 years old and I'm working in Branson, Missouri. I come home from Thanksgiving break and my best friend at the time, he he calls me over. He goes, "Grant, I have set you up with a blind date." And I was like, "Okay, you know what? I can rise to that occasion. Like, I can I can answer that call." >> To be cringe is to be free. But maybe the reason why Madison Puit and Grant Trout cringe me out is because they're so clearly not free religiously, purity-wise, you should be able to do whatever you want. And you can find freedom in that. But it seems like Madison Puit and Grant Trout have their own sort of idea of what they need to put out into the world. And it comes across very forced at times and ends up in very uncomfortable conversations. >> I cannot love Maddie in my own strength. If I try and love Maddie with all that Grant has, I will be short. I will blow up on her. Uh, I will not be quick to forgive. >> Inconsistent. >> And I will be inconsistent. I will all the things. >> You know, you could just choose not to do that. You're an adult with self-control. You could choose to maybe not blow up, have a short temper, and get angry. Why is Grant acting like that's outside of his own control? >> When I prioritize, okay, God, you're the source of love. I got to get it from you, and then I can love Maddie. [clears throat] Then I can serve Maddie. My joy comes from God. Yeah. You know, it's not just like Grant wakes up happy. It's like I sit under the waterfall of who God is and I and I am filled with him and that allows me to love you right and love you well. No comment. >> Oh my gosh, I'm blown away. But then there's this part of me that was like, "Okay, but does he have like this this swag? Like does he go? >> Does he have this like, you know, I don't know. like is there another side of him where we can just like turn on some Justin Bieber, some Drake, like and just chill and vibe. And so we get in the car and he opens my door and he's like, "Do you mind if we just like drive around downtown and I just turn on some Drake?" And I was like >> I was like, "Do you lost it?" >> I was like, "Do you want to get married?" >> To be as positive as possible, it's great that Madison Puit found someone who fit her exact standards. And even if the rest of the internet thinks that this guy is goofy, she obviously loves him. So, I support that and they obviously compliment each other to a certain extent because they do believe the same things that they're not in control of their own actions and that Drake and Justin Bieber are swaggy. Moments where we would start making out and maybe we got a little handsy and >> oh no, that's not very purity. >> Stripped of confidence, stripped of boldness. All of a sudden, I'm not leading her well. Yeah. And and I think my tongue got looser. My tongue lashed out. And >> what? His tongue got loose and lashed out. Whenever Grant describes actions he did, it's like they're all without his control. A ghost possessed him and his tongue lashed out and he didn't know what happened. It's such a weird way to describe being too verbally harsh with someone. We >> we said this thing where Satan promises this beautiful little box of pleasure and he says, "Hey, take this. It's just a little bit. You're not going to go all the way. Just take a little bit. It promised unity and it only caused our biggest fights. It only caused division. >> Um, it sounds to me at least like more so they were dealing with a lot of shame and guilt and turned on each other, which is not healthy. >> And Satan swears. He says, "Hey, just take it. It'll bring you closer." >> But really, I mean, that just divided us. And so >> before we were married, you know, Satan goes, "How can I tempt you to be all over each other?" And now that we're married, I think we see, especially in intimacy, in the marriage bed, he goes, "How do I keep you away from each other?" >> That sounds like an awful situation to be in with someone that you marry. >> It's interesting how Satan is so crafty to try and split that intimacy up >> once you're married. >> So true. >> And when you're dating, you goes together, together, together. Now, I can't tempt you with lust with her anymore. So, how do I get you off that? There's moments that we have had that not that we didn't, but we're like, "Hey, we want to choose to have intimacy right now, even after this big argument, because we want to fight for this unity." And we're looking at Satan right in his eyes and going, "We're fighting for what you cannot tear apart with God on our side." One of my favorite comments on this Tik Tok is when someone says he's unknowingly describing how much purity culture has hurt their relationship, their own issues with shame, guilt that they're putting on one another and is causing a ton of intimacy problems, it sounds like, which is just kind of sad. But at the same time, Grant and Madison are sitting up on their platform and saying, "This is how you need to do it. It sounds really great, right? Sign me up." Apparently, Madison and Grant signed a purity contract when they were dating, which is probably why if they felt like they went beyond that purity contract that both of them signed, they got angry and lashed out at each other or their tongues lashed out. Uh, that could be taken a different way, but okay. Purity, it's so hard. It's hard, but it's worth it. Physical intimacy is the greatest gift in marriage, but outside of marriage, it's one of the greatest hindrances to intimacy with God and future intimacy with your spouse. You can't try and pursue purity in a temptation moment. You have to make a decision outside of the moment. Grant and I wrote out a purity contract and sent it to our best friends to hold us accountable. Is that sort of a roundabout way of just saying these are my boundaries? As much as Madison Puit preaches purity culture throughout all of her content, according to her, she also struggled a lot with this, which likely led to a lot of guilt and shame. As I've said before, in a June 2025 episode of the Stay True podcast, Madison Puit said she struggled with what she called addiction to sexual sin. She said that she had a yearslong struggle with pornography and confession was what led to my freedom. confessing to God and confessing to other believers. That set me free from the addiction to sexual sin and from the spirit of lust that was on my life. It takes both the spirit of God and the people of God to experience the freedom of God. And for me, it took me becoming disgusted with my sin, me repenting to God. She's talking about how she started to hate herself. Here's where some of Madison and Grant's takes a really, really negative turn. Madison and Grant had a baby daughter and on their Stay True podcast, they talked about how they planned to proudly and boldly spank this daughter. My mic ran out of batteries. I was talking about Grant Trout and Madison Puit discussing spanking their daughter. >> You have a child. You don't just discipline them for being good and obeying you, right? Like if if Hosanna obeys us, we're not like, "Come here, girl. Come here. All right, pull him down." >> What is he even talking about? get the, you know, mama, get her, which will be hilarious when we start spanking Hosana, which we will on the record because the Bible so clearly says >> about that. >> Um, it says folly is bound up in a child, >> but discipline drives it far away. >> Well, and it also specifically talks about discipline with the rod. >> With the rod. It says it will not kill them. >> So, some people could say, well, you can discipline them with timeouts. Hold on. It says with the rod. >> She going to get a little bit. what the excitement with which they're talking about all of this as if it's an exciting thing they're looking forward to doing and it's going to be in a very loving way of saying, "Hi, sweetheart. Do you know why you're being disciplined? Mommy does not want to discipline you. Mommy does not enjoy having to spank you, but there are consequences to disobedience." Is it not a red flag that discipline and spanking is what Maddie and Grant Trout are thinking about before they've even had a child? Before the child has even popped out of the womb yet. That's the thing that's on their mind. Not all the fun, joyful things that they're going to experience being a parent. It's like, no, we're really looking forward to spanking our daughter. I would say that's a pretty big red flag. On top of that, when it comes specifically to spanking, there's been a lot of research on why it's not a good way to go about parenting. Psychology Today published a piece by a trauma psychologist arguing that framing spanking as loving or hilarious shows a misunderstanding of both child development and biblical text. And spanking is linked to harmful, not beneficial outcomes. The American Academy of Pediatrics speaks about spanking as well, saying that they strongly oppose corporal punishment and cites a ton of associations between spanking and adverse outcomes for children. And again, not only are Grant and Madison talking about how they think it's going to be hilarious to spank their daughter, but they're doing it in a way where they're acting as if they're 100% certain that this is the way everyone should parent. Everyone needs to spank their children. when most professionals agree that is not good advice at all. In fact, it's really harmful for their children. It's again this sort of entitlement as if just because Grant and Madison have a microphone that all of the sudden this makes them experts in whatever topic they choose to talk about, including child development and child psychology. Apparently, Madison Puit said she loved being a submissive wife. It's really freeing for women when they submit. Saying that it was a challenge at first for her, but then became her favorite thing to discuss. Now, first off, before we watch this clip, I want to say it's incredibly easy for someone like Madison Puit to say that she finds peace in submitting to her husband. Yeah, her husband's a billionaire. Submitting to him means having all of your bills paid, having everything taken care of for you, and not having to worry about providing. But in most households, that's not the case. When I submitted to God's will and when I submitted to my husband, I actually found the security that I was craving. And it wasn't in my nagging. It wasn't in my controlling. It wasn't in my feminist. It wasn't in your nagging and controlling. Oh my gosh. So, what's the opposite of that? Just being dead weight that your husband like drags around that says nothing and does nothing. A potato sack that has no thoughts and opinions of their own. A lot of people would describe that as an abusive relationship. It was in the submission to God's order and God's design and in the submission to my husband as the head of the home and as the leader of the home that I got the security that I was craving that I found the love that I w that I wanted. And I think going against that, there is something in our nature as women. I mean, it goes back to the fall. It goes back to Genesis 3. There's something in our nature as women. We want to rebel against that. We want to control. We want to, you know, we don't want to submit. We don't want to respect. Um, and we have to fight against that because it is our call as a wife. If you chose to get married and you're choosing to build your life on the foundation of Jesus Christ, it is your call to submit to your husband and to respect him. I feel like I really have to mention when I was looking up clips to react to for this video, a lot of the phrases I would use in the Google search are really questionable. I had to first look up Madison [laughter] masturbation, Madison spanking, and then for this one, Madison Puit submissive. I'm embarrassed for my Google search history now. And it's kind of ironic considering Madison Puit talks so much about purity that really the subjects they discuss felt like some of the most impure topics kind of seems like it's on their mind a lot. A lot of these impure topics are just on their mind. I wonder why that is. After getting backlash for the submissive comments, Madison and Trout discussed it on their podcast. Grant and I just wanted to address kind of what has been going on um since a conversation we had with a friend on the podcast and we I I guess should say I um talked about the word submission. It's just kind of grieved our hearts and um you know my heart that there wasn't context around it and I am moved to tears and just grateful to God of some of you guys giving your life to Jesus through listening to the not because of this podcast but because of God moving in this podcast. They believe what they are doing is so virtuous and right. people are simply misunderstanding them and all of the things that they're saying are so biblical that God is moving through their podcast and it doesn't seem like there's a lot of self-reflection of maybe your stances aren't really that great. I almost feel like this sort of influencer is even worse than the Proud Wife who visually shows off this unrealistic aesthetic life of a woman making incredible food and cleaning their house with their millions of children for their husband. With this sort of narrative, you have these influencers who are sitting on a podcast and talking about how submitting is the most important thing that you can do as a woman, how it actually empowers you. Essentially telling other people they should do that thing instead of just talking about their own experiences. They're pushing that narrative out to the world and out on others. You're not being a perfect wife unless you submit. And that's why I think they're even more toxic than the t wife. to us, it means, okay, I'm submitting to you as you submit to Christ. And that's honestly more responsibility on you because you're called to serve the church the way that Jesus did. And so, it basically means like you have a higher calling to die to self and honor your wife and the wife is supposed to fall in that leadership. I love how the guy is smiling like, "Yeah, sure. Okay, this is super tough to have a wife submit to me." I feel like she's gaslighting herself into thinking that this is a good situation. I think a lot of women think like submit means like oh I'm less than he's going to power over me and it's like no we have different roles and when your husband does it right you're like this is so easy to follow like I love when you lead because it just flows so well and it really is like hey he's looking out for you it's not something you need to be fearful of and hopefully you're submitting to the right man you're not submitting to every man commented on this it also says men submit to your wives is there an episode where you talk about the difference that is an interesting thing that's left out of this conversation. There's never a conversation of these men, these husbands, sitting there and talking about all the ways they submit to their wife. It's only the women talking about how they submit to their husbands. I feel like they're gaslighting themselves into thinking that whatever toxic relationship they're in is so good that they now have to sit on a podcast and say everyone else should be in a relationship like this. Needless to say, Grant and Madison received a lot of backlash for their online takes. So they once again got up on a podcast and talked about how they were able to handle hate as a Christian. Essentially framing criticism as persecution when I would say a lot of the people that are criticizing Grant and Madison are Christians themselves that are just saying, "Hey, I think things are a little bit more nuanced." It's also wild for them to feel this way because they are incredibly rich and privileged. So what do you mean people are persecuting you? How has your life become challenged by people kind of debating your takes online? What? So, you want to sit there on a podcast and have everybody just silently nod their heads to whatever you're saying? Take it at face value. At the end of the day, I don't live my life to please people. I live my life to please God. That's who I have to give an account to. And so, it's like there are going to be people, scripture promises me, if you follow me, they will hate you. They will reject you. They will like they will persecute you. And it says in Matthew 5, "Blessed are those who are persecuted for my name's sake, like great is their reward in heaven." And so if I am being persecuted because of my love and devotion to Jesus and taking a stand for purity and taking a stand for justice and taking a stand for these things that are very countercultural and very counter how our world is operating today, then it's like bring it on cuz I don't live for this world. I live for a world that is to come. I live for eternity. Um, and so I think keeping that in mind too is so much of it is even just from like spiritual warfare and like what all Christians are up against, you know, whether it's like a smaller, you know, your community around you or if you have a platform and it's from like a larger platform, you're going to get some of that spiritual warfare. People criticizing you for spanking your child or getting excited about the thought of spanking your child is spiritual warfare. It's spiritual warfare. and she lumps in all Christians with the criticism that she's received online. Basically saying like, "You're either with us or against us." When again, I think it's a lot of Christians themselves that are criticizing this couple. Someone said off of this video, "Her victim complex is strong here. She says she's been persecuted for taking a stand for things that are countercultural. not sure having a giant online platform that generates tons of money and a billionaire husband, not to mention multiple self-help books that she's released. All of that equals persecution. But what do I know? And that's the thing. Madison Puit is so privileged that she's been able to release a ton of books off of her takes on purity culture. She's buil by her publishers as a national bestseller and ECPA bestseller for Evangelical Christian Publishers Association. Her books are made for This Moment, The Love Everybody Wants, What You're Looking For Is Already Yours, and most recently, Dare to Be True. Defeat the Lies That Bind You and live out the truth that frees you. After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Madison Puit spoke with Fox News, paying tribute to Kirk and calling him a man who lived and died for truth. My name is Madison Puit Trout. I am an author, speaker, and podcast host of Stay Tree Podcast. You know, Charlie was a man who lived and died for truth. Yes, a lot of that was wrapped in the political space, but it was all rooted in his faith in Jesus Christ. It was all rooted in um the truth about Jesus Christ. and that was what he always drew from and went back to. Um, and so it's just encouraged me and I think uh, America, a generation, um, to know the truth, which is honestly, it's crazy that the timing of even my book coming out because I wrote this book um, Dare to Be True, you know, a year and a half ago. And is she now spinning all of this to promote her book? What Charlie Kirk dared to be true? And that's why you need to buy my book, Dare to Be True, where I teach you how to be just like Charlie Kirk. >> The Lord laid on my heart that um I needed to write a book on truth and that it was the truth that everybody needs. And now I'm seeing this [music] world that we're living in today with so much brokenness, with so much pain, with so much confusion. Um there's a hunger and a searching for truth. So, it seems like Madison is pursuing a sort of political path to further help promote her podcast, her books, find a bigger audience, all of that. I mean, at the end of the day, it's kind of standard joining the griff. So, the biggest question is, has that been successful for Madison? Well, recently Madison had a speaking endeavor at Trump's Freedom 250 Great American State Fair where Madison spoke on this large field that seemed meant to hold thousands, but nobody attended her speaking event. Power Jesus player Madison Puit made an in very interesting public speaking appearance at Trump's The Great American State Fair. I didn't know this, [gasps] but she spoke to a crowd of what looks to be about four people in the video documenting [laughter] her appearance on Tik Tok. The deadlegged hooer spoke about faith, purpose, and personal growth at the freedom stage. Her presentation was part of a dayong event focused on faith, family values, and inspiration. Glad to see her out there speaking to her people. It's insane. >> Madison Puit often talks about wanting to speak the truth to help people. And now I'm questioning what people is this helping. What people >> say, I have chosen the right gate. Will you? >> We love you. We praise you. And it's in the name of Jesus, >> her husband. >> Pray. Amen. Listen, I have major problems with a lot of what Maddie stands for and has said, but I will give her props that she even went out and spoke in front of this crowd at all because it's hard to get up there when you're expecting a big crowd and hardly anyone shows up. And in my opinion, it seems pretty obvious that Madison is trying to build up this image of herself as someone people should lean on to for advice surrounding the Bible and purity culture. So when you have such a huge flop and it becomes obvious that no one's really listening to you, it sort of shatters that illusion. At the end of the day, there are a lot of people who like Madison Puit's messaging. So who am I to say? I just think that it's wild to have a couple who acts as if they're the best example that you can go by in relationships, in family life, in how they live their life, and then some of the things that they say so blatantly oppose that and are so obviously toxic. And so that's why I wanted to talk about that here today, even though it was really weird to say Madison all the time about another person, but my name is Madison. Thank you so much for watching. If you made it all the way to the end, let me know if you like this style of content and what other sort of influencers and videos I should talk about that are circulating online and on the internet. I hope you're doing well and I'll see you in the next video. Stay well till then. Bye.