In an interview with CBN News, which also hosts Pat Robertson's 700 Club, Donald Trump suggested Thursday that God would like him to be president.
Asked whether he believed his candidacy was a "divine calling," Trump said pastors and "others" have told him exactly that. "I really don’t even want to think about it because it's too big of a burden," he continued, predicting that his presidency will "open up the voices of great people and the pastors and the ministers, and the priests and the rabbis and the people of religion" — except presumably not the people of the Muslim religion, as a President Trump might or might not or might after all ban them from entering the United States.
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