Attendees at an “Evangelicals for Trump” campaign event booed members of the press that came to cover the president’s address.
President Trump spoke to a crowd of supportive churchgoers on Friday evening at the Miami-based megachurch King Jesus International Ministry. After the event concluded, attendees booed as reporters began leaving the church, according to Maggie Haberman of the New York Times.
As reporters left the church and passed by them, attendees of the event booed.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT)
January 3, 2020
Trump often criticizes the press for how it covers his administration, and his lines on the topic at rallies receive raucous applause from his supporters.
Trump’s rally to bolster his support among evangelicals comes after Christianity Today, an evangelical magazine founded by Rev. Billy Graham, said the president should be removed from office in December. Graham died Feb. 21, 2018, at the age of 99.
The president thanked Graham’s 67-year-old son Franklin for his continued support of the administration at the event. Franklin Graham had slammed the Christianity Today editorial against Trump, saying his father would not have supported it.
Trump has enjoyed high levels of support from the evangelical community and will likely keep that support, despite the attack from the evangelical magazine.
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