First, they support the impression that—unlike Southern Baptist Bill Clinton, who never met a pew he wouldn't sit in—Trump is not a regular churchgoer and does not identify with any local congregation in New York or in Florida. If he had a church he regularly attended he would have tapped his pastor to be part of the inaugural mix.
Moreover, Trump never even met two of the invited clerics, Bishop Wayne T. Johnson, an African-American pastor in Detroit, and the Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, president of the The National Hispanic Christian Coalition, until late in his campaign. Each provides a needed ethnic platform presence.
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