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Church of the Donald
posted on April 23, 2018For POLITICO Magazine, Ruth Graham reports, “As Christian networks have become more comfortable with politics, the Trump administration has turned them into a new pipeline for its message.” In 2017, Trump gave more interviews to the Christian Broadcasting Network than CNN, ABC, or CBS. CBN offers Trump a friendly platform that is unlikely to challenge him. Graham writes, “His hair-sprayed reality-TV persona—to say nothing of the bluster and the heroic monologues—aren’t that far from the preaching style that has prospered on cable evangelism.”