Controversial Pastor to Preach to Trump on Inauguration Day

Rev. Robert Jeffress, a Baptist pastor with a controversial past, is slated to preach to President-elect Trump and his family on Inauguration Day at a private service at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C. Jeffress, who heads the First Baptist Church in Dallas, was a major booster of Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign, and sat on Trump’s evangelical advisory board. Jeffress has a controversial past in which he once said Mormonism is a “cult” when referencing 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s religion. He has also called Islam an “evil religion,” and said Muslims, Hindus and Mormons “worship a false god.”