RELIGION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “While on a preaching tour in Vermont a few weeks ago, Franklin Graham got an idea: God had helped Donald Trump reach the White House, and now the President needed divine aid again. Like no President before him, Trump was under attack, Graham said. From Democrats, Republicans, the media, even powers and principalities beyond the human realm. His presidency was in peril, the country at a moral crossroads. So Graham decided to do what evangelists do: pray, preferably with lots of other people. After calling evangelical allies, he announced plans to name this Sunday, June 2, as a ‘special day of prayer’ to protect Trump from his ‘enemies’…In some respects, the ‘Pray For Trump’ day seems designed to drive positive media coverage of the President, shifting the narrative from a presidency in peril to one buoyed by Trump’s most loyal bloc: white evangelicals. Graham himself has no public events planned on June 2, outside of a prayer he’ll post on Facebook and a television appearance on Fox News.”
–Daniel Burke, “Franklin Graham wants the nation to pray for Trump on Sunday. But other Christians call it propaganda,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, May 30, 2019 11:07 am