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Donald Trump has been associated with the Christian religion in various ways.
While Trump's father was a Lutheran, Trump was raised in his mother's Presbyterian faith; he completed Sunday School and was confirmed in 1959 at First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica. He declared that he was a Presbyterian and a Protestant in 2016. In October 2020 Trump declared that he no longer identified as Presbyterian and was now a nondenominational Christian.
Trump said in 2015 that he attends Reformed Marble Collegiate Church in Manhattan, where he married his first wife Ivana in 1977, although the church says that he is not an "active member". He is also loosely affiliated with Lakeside Presbyterian Church in West Palm Beach, Florida, near his Mar-a-Lago estate. He attends church on Sundays. A survey during the presidency of Donald Trump showed that 63% of Americans did not believe he was religious, despite his professed Christian affiliation.
Trump has stated that he has great relationships with Christian ministers. He has had a long association with Paula White, an evangelical minister whom he has called his "personal pastor." White delivered the invocation prayer at Trump's 2017 inauguration and joined the White House staff in 2019 to work on religious outreach issues.
In 2024, he began to sell special editions of the King James Version of the Bible that contained copies of the founding documents of the United States, known as the God Bless the U.S.A. Bible. Trump himself has a personal collection of Bibles.
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References
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And that's pretty sad, because we're Christians. I'm Protestant. I'm Presbyterian.
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As you know, I am Presbyterian and Protestant. I've had great relationships and developed even greater relationships with ministers. We have tremendous support from the clergy.
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