President-elect Donald Trump and his wife Melania are greeted as they arrive for church service at St. John's Episcopal Church across from the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, on Donald Trump's inauguration day. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP
President Donald Trump’s television viewing habits were offered as an example Thursday of how he is a man of faith.
Jennifer S. Korn, deputy assistant to the president and faith director of the White House Faith Office, which Trump launched in January, suggested politics don’t play a role in the president’s courting of faith leaders and defense of Christian beliefs.
“President Trump has had faith in his life in his early ages – going to Sunday school. One of his treasured books is his Bible given to him by his mother," Korn said during an appearance Thursday morning on “Fox & Friends.”
“And then fast-forward into his adulthood. In 2000, when he called Pastor Paula White, and he was watching Christian television,” Korn said. “So remember, before he even though about being president he was watching Christian television.”
Korn said the president’s faith has always been “an important part of his life,” adding that the president believes God saved his life during the assassination attempt last summer in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Trump “knows that God spared his life on July 13, and you just see a resolve and you see that determination and humility here in order to do just an amazing job for the American people,” Korn said.
“He knows that God spared his life so that he could make America great again and return America to the Golden Age,” the faith director continued. “And that includes bringing faith back to the White House and back to America.”
On Wednesday night, Trump hosted an Easter prayer service dinner at the White House, telling dozens of Christian leaders, “I hope this is going to be one of the great Easters ever,” according to the Associated Press.
“We’re standing up for a persecuted Christian, and so many Christians have been persecuted all over the world,” Trump said in his speech, “we had nobody fighting for our Christians in other parts of the world who had been so incredibly destroyed, killed, injured, hurt. But so many died, you wouldn’t think it could happen in this time.”
He touted creating the White House Faith Office and the Justice Department task force “to eradicate anti-Christian bias.”
“You don’t hear about that much but there is anti-Christian bias,” Trump said.
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