Trump Mocks Others' Faith, Keeps His Religion Quiet

Sarah Bailey & Julie Zauzmer & Josh Dawsey Washington Post February 18, 2020
Trump Mocks Others' Faith, Keeps His Religion Quiet
(AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

In September 2016, presidential candidate Donald Trump gathered evangelical pastors, whose support he had courted assiduously, to discuss the political beliefs that they shared.

The Rev. Robert Jeffress, who leads the megachurch First Baptist Dallas and would preach at the church service Trump attended on the morning of his inauguration, recalls looking at the agenda and starting to discuss the first item. Trump interrupted him.

“Pastor, don’t you think we ought to pray first?” Trump said, according to Jeffress.

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