“I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven,” Donald Trump told a group of journalists aboard Air Force One in October. “I think I’m not, maybe, heaven-bound.”

“My phone started blowing up,” says Paula White-Cain, Trump’s senior advisor to the White House Faith Office. “I went and looked at it because I didn’t see it live and I knew he was joking. People critique him if he’s too prideful. And then if there’s a part of humility in him, they’re critiquing him for that.”

Trump first called her in the early 2000s after seeing her preach on a Christian broadcast in Palm Beach. He thought she had the “It” factor. “It’s interesting because that’s what he called it,” she tells me. “I turned around and said, ‘Oh, sir, we call that the anointing,’ which simply means God’s presence… and that was our hello.”

White-Cain has platinum blonde hair and a large, Spanish-style house in central Florida, where she spends the majority of her time. Her past two marriages ended but she is currently married to Jonathan Cain, who plays keyboard in the rock band Journey and co-wrote “Don’t Stop Believin’.” She is a televangelist, preacher, fundraiser and founder of Paula White Ministries, a global media and evangelical organization. Like the President, she is an outsider in the upper rooms of the Republican party. Trump appointed her to the White House Faith Office in both of his terms, though she was far from the obvious choice, and for all these years, he has relied on her to help him navigate the complex world of American evangelical elites.

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