The two friends met in 2002, after he watched White deliver a televised sermon on the value of vision. He publicly doubted whether he deserves evangelicals’ support, claimed he has never sought forgiveness from a higher power, and muffed a Bible citation, quoting “Two Corinthians” instead of “Second Corinthians.”īut Trump’s relationship with White isn’t an overnight conversion it’s born of a longer courtship. But his religious expressions have often been uncertain. Trump describes himself as a Presbyterian, a “Sunday church person,” and he has been known to bring his childhood Bible to rallies. The spiritual life of the Republican nominee has been something of a mystery this election season. “I probably against any plot or plan or weapon of the enemy to interfere with the plan or the will of God.” That evening, White rode in Trump’s car with his family to the arena. “I do remember asking God to give him his words and his mind, and to use him-that it would not be his words but God’s words, that he would just really be sensitive to the Holy Spirit,” White recalled in an interview with TIME weeks later. Then at the candidate’s invitation, she met the Republican nominee, his wife Melania and 10-year old son Barron for another circle of prayer in their room. After she saw Eric, she went to her room in the Trump campaign’s Cleveland hotel, where she spent the next four hours praying for Donald Trump as he prepared for his prime-time convention address. “You prayed, and the prompter went back on.”Įric Trump is not the only member of his family who has come to rely on White, 50, a popular televangelist who believes that intercessory prayer can have an immediate impact on shaping events.
“I thought I was going to have to wing 15 minutes to them all,” he said. The younger Trump’s teleprompter had broken the night before as he prepared to address the Republican National Convention. “Your prayer did it, Paula,” Eric told her. Donald Trump’s son Eric was glowing when he sat down at a Cleveland restaurant next to Orlando pastor Paula White.
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