Paula White-Cain was appointed by Trump last week to lead his “White House Faith Office.”
“In the last 40 years, White-Cain has expanded her influence globally in almost 200 countries, ministering, fighting for religious freedom and humanitarian rights, and advocating for the voiceless,” The White House said in a statement.
She previously served in Trump’s first administration chair of the evangelical advisory board to Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and in 2019, as special advisor to the Faith and Opportunity Initiative at the Office of Public Liaison.
White-Cain was also the first female clergy member to deliver the invocation at Trump’s first presidential inauguration in 2017.
Trump’s appointment of White-Cain to lead White House Faith Office sparked outrage and criticism from many Christians online who argued that she is a heretic due to her support of prosperity theology as well as being a female pastor.
“This is the worst decision President Trump has made since taking office… Paula White is a heretic, who pedals the prosperity gospel. Plus, women should not be pastors according to The Bible,” Conservative commentator Jon Root wrote on X.
Scott Ross, an Orthodox Christian, and a Texas-based leadership coach denounced Trump’s decision as “an abomination.”
“Paula White, head of Trump’s White House Faith Office, is no Christian leader,” he wrote. “She preaches the heresies of Word of Faith & Prosperity Gospel, both utterly opposed to authentic Christianity. Worse, she has lived a life of scandal, with multiple husbands, twisting the Gospel for profit.”
“Arguably, this is the worst and most dangerous thing President Trump has done—putting a false teacher at the helm of faith outreach. Lord, have mercy on our country and this administration,” he continued.
“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine…” (2 Tim. 4:3)
Ross’ post included a viral clip of White-Cain from November 2020 when she led an impassioned prayer service to secure Trump’s re-election following his loss to Joe Biden.
“I hear a sound of victory, the Lord says it is done,” she said at the time, including speaking in tongues. “For angels have even been dispatched from Africa right now… In the name of Jesus from South America, they’re coming here.“
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