User:Evangelizerec/Paula White

Trump administration[edit]
From when Trump took office, White had served as one of the president's spiritual advisors and had held various prayer circles with him in the White House, including in the Oval Office. One notable prayer moment as pictured was White initiating prayer with President Trump on February 27,2020 at the African American History Month Reception in the Cabinet Room. White led black leaders to lay hands on President Trump, a moment that aided President' Trumps appeal with the black community following their concerns with him before the he was elected. In 2015, Black Pastors called for then presidential candidate Trump to apologize for unfair treatment of the African American community, and "also to Mexicans for his inflammatory rhetoric".

White also continued to support him for his reelection. On June 18, 2020, before Trump launched his reelection campaign, she opened in prayer [7] [2]. She further used her religious notoriety to fish for votes on Trump's behalf. She warned that "Christians that don't support President Trump will have to answer to God" [1]. November 4, 2020, one day after the election in which Trump was standing for his second term, White appeared in a Facebook Live stream in which she conducted a prayer service to secure Trump's reelection, repeatedly calling on "angelic reinforcement" from "angels" from Africa and South America as well as "an abundance of rain." This was after it became apparent from election results that Trump was losing to Biden. The video featured White leading the impassioned prayer that included praying in tongues. It quickly went viral across the Internet and received much criticism and ridicule.

Political career
On October 31, 2019, the White House announced that White would serve in an official advisory role for the Center for Faith and Opportunity Initiative. While in this official capacity, she continued to support President Trump and his policies.

She was spotted with First Lady Melania Trump in the White House Rose Garden on May 7, 2020 delivering the opening remarks for a national day of prayer [?].

Using her religious theology, she stood as an advocate for Trump's hardcore immigration policy [5]. She also stood as a voice of strong contradiction against those who alleged immigration detention centers used to detain children who entered the country illegally following Trump's new policies were inhumanely kept [4]. Concerning the conditions of a particular facility, The Associated shared that, "the facility was packed with hundreds of underfed, unwashed children-some of them sick with the flu, - forced to look after each other in the absence of the adults" [4]. To contradict this, White reported that following visits to these facilities, youth received "three square meals a day" [5]. Additionally, White shared that "the deplorable conditions reported by opportunistic journalists and immigration lawyers just are not there" because youth were "crowded" but in a facility that was "deep cleaned" on a daily basis and contained "smiling and laughing children" who played various games [5].