President Donald Trump has increasingly infused references to God into his prepared remarks — calling on God to bless all the world after launching strikes in Syria, asking God to bless the newest Supreme Court Justice, invoking the Lord to argue in favor of a war on opioids.
He’s also taken other steps to further cultivate a Christian right that helped elect him, granting new levels of access to Christian media and pushing socially conservative positions that don’t appear to come naturally to him…
But others who have long followed Trump — a businessman who was known more as a playboy than a practitioner of faith — are skeptical that the president has found religion in the Oval Office.
“Donald has never been a spiritually or religiously serious person,” said Timothy O’Brien, the author of the Trump biography “TrumpNation: The Art of Being Donald.”
“He’s a transactional guy with humans and it’s no different with God — it’s all about whatever is to his advantage with regard to his supporters, and referencing God is exactly and only that,” said Gwenda Blair, author of “The Trumps: Three Generations of Builders and a President.”
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