
Paula White-Cain, President Trump’s chief faith advisor, is being blasted for soliciting $1,000 donations in exchange for “supernatural blessings.” On White’s YouTube channel, she is promoting a special offer for the “Passover season.” “I believe that when you honor God on Passover starting on April 12th at sundown through Good Friday on the 18th and concluding on Easter Sunday, you can receive these seven supernatural blessings for you and your house,” she says in the video.
Citing Exodus 23, White outlines the blessings as “God will assign an angel to you. He’ll be an enemy to your enemies. He’ll give you prosperity. He’ll take sickness away from you. He will give you long life. He’ll bring increase in inheritance, and He’ll give a special year of blessing.” White seemed to imply that a $1,000 donation to her ministry would offer guaranteed blessings by encouraging her followers by “realizing what you can receive for your special Passover offering of $1,000 or more as the Holy Spirit leads you.” She outlined several giving tiers that her viewers could sign up for, with each tier offering more and more gifts, such as an olive wood communion set or a “beautiful 10-inch Waterford Crystal cross.”
Christians were quick to blast White, whom has been criticized for promoting the prosperity gospel. “Dear @realDonaldTrump, please remove Paula White,” wrote Pastor Gabriel Hughes on X. “She’s a false teacher. Appoint a godly man who preaches Christ and Him crucified for our sins (Voddie Baucham?). Brethren, have nothing to do with this woman. In seeking a seat at the table, she doesn’t help you—you help her.”
A spokesperson for White pushed back against criticism. “This story is a deceptive smear,” said the spokesperson, noting that “Pastor White specifically says in the very same video, ‘you’re not doing this to get something,’ and the solicitation, which was later in the program, makes it clear that any donation to the ministry should only be ‘as the Holy Spirit leads.’” The spokesperson also claimed that donations “do not directly benefit Pastor White.” Allie Beth Stuckey addressed the controversy on her podcast and warned against expecting blessings in exchange for financial donations. “These are heretical teachings that lead straight to hell. But the gospel of Jesus—the truth that He is enough for us, that He is our contentment and salvation and satisfaction—that will really set you free.”