President Donald Trump reportedly wanted to build a megachurch with the help of Paula White-Cain, his longtime personal pastor, according to the Washington Examiner.
“He wanted to build a house of God,” White-Cain told the Washington Examiner. “He said, ‘Let’s do this, let’s build this before we’re too old.’”
According to the report, Trump had chosen an architect and wanted White-Cain to take the lead on the project. However, she wasn’t ready for it. She was already appearing on nine different TV networks and had been caught up in a divorce with her husband.
She said she never revealed Trump’s plan until now. She said he wanted to build a church similar to the Crystal Cathedral in Los Angeles, according to the Washington Examiner.
“It was part of a dream,” she said.
“He said, ‘Let’s build a crystal cathedral for God,” she said.
White-Cain now heads up an outreach to evangelicals for Trump and his administration, according to The New York Times. She will oversee outreach to the president’s base.
She said she’s unsure if Trump will ever build a megachurch. But it’s possible.
“Who knows what God will do. Who knows, maybe we will end up building a cathedral,” she said.
Though Trump has been under fire before for how he approaches Christianity and religion, one church has had a tremendous impact on him, according to The New York Times. Religion played a role in his upbringing. He attended Sunday services for about 50 years.
“Overlooked amid tabloid accounts of his romances or financial-page articles about his ups and downs are the periods in his life when he was going to church, first as a regular at a Presbyterian church in Queens, where he grew up, and later, as a less frequent worshipper at Marble, one of America’s oldest and most famous churches,” according to The New York Times.