Abstract
During the 2016 presidential election, the world watched as Donald J. Trump won the vote of white Evangelical Christians across the nation and with it, the United States presidency. It is no secret that Trump’s strategy relied on the Evangelical vote, as did Republican presidents before him. However, Trump diverged sharply from his Republican predecessors in the choice of Paula White as his spiritual advisor. The first woman to serve as a U.S. president’s primary spiritual advisor, White was regularly seen with Trump at public events. White publicly prayed over Trump, praised his efforts to bring the nation back to