Presidents often turn to faith in times of crisis That seems unlikely for Trump
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Presidents often turn to faith in times of crisis. That seems unlikely for Trump.
Two days before his presidential inauguration, Donald Trump greeted a pair of visitors at his office in Trump Tower.
As a swarm of reporters waited in
the gilded lobby, the Rev. Patrick O'Connor, the senior pastor at the
First Presbyterian Church in Queens, and the Rev. Scott Black Johnston,
the senior pastor of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church,
arrived to pray with the next president.
From behind his desk on the 26th
floor, Trump faced the Celtic cross at the top of the steeple of
Johnston's church, located a block south on Fifth Avenue. When Johnston
pointed it out to Trump, the President-elect responded by marveling at
the thick glass on the windows of his office -- bulletproof panels
installed after the election.
It was clear that Trump was still
preoccupied with his November victory, and pleased with his performance
with one constituency in particular.
"I did very, very well with
evangelicals in the polls," Trump interjected in the middle of the
conversation -- previously unreported comments that were described to me
by both pastors.
They gently reminded Trump that neither of them was an evangelical.
"Well, what are you then?" Trump asked.
They explained they were mainline
Protestants, the same Christian tradition in which Trump, a
self-described Presbyterian, was raised and claims membership. Like many
mainline pastors, they told the President-elect, they lead diverse
congregations.
Trump nodded along, then posed another question to the two men: "But you're all Christians?"
"Yes, we're all Christians."
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