Donald Trump suggests God is calling him to be president
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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.
In the same interview, Trump also conceded that he is "not perfect." Watch below for his full musings on the divine burden of unparalleled greatness he has so humbly accepted. Bonnie Kristian
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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.
