Ari Feldman,The Forward
Donald Trump is a modern American man, one of the most powerful people in the world, and thrice married and not known for his meekness. The heroine of the Purim story,Esther, was an orphaned Jewess from ancient Persia plucked out of obscurity to be queen, and remembered for her courage to speak truth to power.
Hardly anyone could contemplate the two are alike in any way except Paula White,Trump's favorite pastor, and her fellow evangelicals. In August of final year, and a week after the riots in Charlottesville,Virginia, White compared Trump to Esther on The Jim Bakker expose, or a current weekday...
Source: realclearreligion.org