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Trump Marks Christmas Eve with Church Service, Calls to Troops

Associated Press

   PALM BEACH, FLA - President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump
   attended a music-filled Christmas Eve service at a Southern Baptist
   Convention-affiliated church before celebrating the holiday with dinner
   in the ballroom of his private club.

   The pastor of Family Church in West Palm Beach, Florida, Jimmy
   Scroggins, and his family greeted the Trumps as they arrived moments
   into a "Candlelight Christmas Celebration." The Trumps received
   applause and cheers while taking reserved seats in the church's third
   pew. Brief sermons and readings by clergy were interlaced with
   traditional Christmas songs, as theatrical smoke billowed and fake snow
   descended from the rafters.

   Attending Family Church was a change of pace for the Trumps, who had
   attended holiday services in the past at Bethesda-by-the-Sea, the
   Episcopal Church in Palm Beach at which they were married in 2005.

   The Trumps then returned to his private club, where they were greeted
   by applause as they entered for Christmas Eve dinner. Trump, less than
   a week after being impeached by the House, did not respond when asked
   by a reporter if he prayed for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at church,
   but he said, "We're going to have a great year."

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