On Friday, Donald Trump became the first serving president to attend the annual March For Life, one of the largest anti-abortion protests of the year. But in a recent sermon, his own spiritual adviser Paula White-Cain, a controversial Florida televangelist, prayed for a mass abortion of "Satanic pregnancies," according to a video of White-Cain's speech posted to Twitter by the watchdog group Right Wing Watch.
In October, Trump appointed White-Cain to a post in his administration, leading his Faith and Opportunity Initiative, which is designed to allow religious organizations a greater voice in government policy. But while many previous presidents have embraced religious figures as at least informal advisers, White-Cain is the first presidential spiritual adviser to preach the so-called "prosperity gospel," which holds that Christian faith should lead to great wealth, according to a Mother Jones magazine investigative report.
White-Cain has previously condemned opponents and critics of Trump as practitioners of "sorcery and witchcraft." But prior to her appointment to the Trump White House, she has been criticized herself for allegedly scamming her followers, though a Senate investigation of her Paula White Ministries ultimately was unable to find that she had committed any wrongdoing.
White-Cain's church declared bankruptcy in 2012, however.
