Donald Trump’s lesbian niece, Mary Trump, accused the president’s spiritual advisor, Florida-based televangelist scammer Paula White-Cain for repeatedly and blasphemously comparing him to Jesus and God, saying that it serves mostly to boost his ego, manipulate their followers, and silence criticism while making White-Cain and Trump richer in the process.
“I don’t think ‘blasphemy’ is a strong enough word to describe White-Cain’s comparison of a corrupt heathen like Donald Trump to Christians’ Lord and Savior,” Mary Trump wrote in a recent post, referring to White-Cain’s recent comparison of Trump to Jesus as well as her statement that saying no to Trump is like saying no to God.
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“The white evangelical excuse for their support of Donald—that he is but an imperfect vessel anointed by their god to help them achieve their political goals, is wearing thin especially with a snake-oil salesman like White-Cain trying to turn Donald into some kind of Christ-like martyr,” Mary Trump continued.
Mary Trump noted that White-Cain has participated in a laying on of hands upon the president in the Oval Office, publicly performs prayers “extolling his divine virtues,” performs “exorcisms,” and also “speaks in tongues.”
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“Paula White-Cain should either be in prison for being a snake-oil-selling grifter or in a psych ward, but instead of being a reviled figure who is forced to exist on the periphery, she’s actually a very powerful person in our government,” Trump’s relative continued.
Trump’s niece said that White-Cain built her career preaching the prosperity gospel, which resonates with Donald because he and his siblings grew up exposed to the teachings of Norman Vincent Peale, the author of the best-selling The Power of Positive Thinking, a classic 1952 self-help book that tells readers they can have a happier, more successful life by using faith, optimism, and practical techniques to overcome negativity, worry, and self-doubt.
Calling Peale an early preacher of the proto-prosperity gospel, Mary Trump said Peale was also “a charlatan whose doctrine proclaimed that you need only self-confidence to prosper in the way God wants you to, which confirmed a belief that Trump’s father already had: that he was rich because he deserved to be.
White-Cain “helps perpetuate the notion that wealth and righteousness are equivalent,” Mary Trump wrote, by conflating “political victory with divine mandate, and loyalty to Donald with loyalty to God.
Mary Trump noted that White-Cain ‘s IRS filings show that White-Cain made $166,000 in total income and paid herself $143,000 in compensation, but also made $80 million through her television ministry.
“[Those who make the] blasphemous and absurd comparison [of Trump to God] know exactly what they’re doing,” Mary Trump wrote. “Their rhetoric confirms Donald’s own delusions that he is a unique historical figure. It bolsters his dangerous notion not simply that he’s at the center of the universe, but that he is the universe.”
“In the process, it’s making them very rich at the expense of the vulnerable and deluded people who listen to them,” Mary Trump concluded.
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