A video ofDonald Trump's White House faith adviser Paula Whiteconducting what social media users called a mass exorcism has gone viral, showing her screaming at writhing congregants and calling down 'fire' upon them.
White, 59, who serves asSenior Advisor to the White House Faith Office, an officere-established by Trump in February 2025, has long carried out fire-and-brimstone spiritual warfare rituals in her ministry. The footage, which surfaced in March 2026, shows her moving through a congregation while blowing into a microphone and directing fervent exhortations at people who appear to be convulsing or overcome with emotion.
The clip reignited scrutiny of White's role in the Trump administration, coming just days before a separate incident in which shecompared the president to Jesus Christat a White House Easter lunch; footage the White House swiftly deleted.
The video, shared widely across X on 30 March 2026, shows White moving through rows of congregants in a charged church setting. Multiple people in the crowd appear to collapse, convulse, or writhe as she passes, a hallmark ofPentecostal 'deliverance' ministryin which practitioners believe demons are being physically expelled from the body.
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White is seen blowing forcefully into the microphone, a gesture understood in some charismatic traditions as channelling the Holy Spirit's breath to cast out evil. Observers on social media described participants as 'possessed,' though that language comes from commentators rather than any official characterisation of the service.
One post byDr Sam Youssef on X, which drew wide circulation, described the scene as White conducting 'an exorcism session to drive evil spirits out of the audience by blowing into the microphone.' Political commentatorRon Filipkowski also referenced the footage, noting it had circulated the previous month.
⛔️Paula White, appointed by Trump as president of the White House Faith Office, conducts an exorcism session to drive evil spirits out of the audience by blowing into the microphone.‼️pic.twitter.com/a0SORI8eT9
The White House did not issue a statement about the video. Neither White's office nor her ministry, City of Destiny in Apopka, Florida, responded to press enquiries in the days following its spread online.
This is not the first time White's ministry practices have drawn public alarm. In January 2020, she was filmed at the City of Destiny church commanding all 'satanic pregnancies to miscarry right now,' language she later insisted referred to a passage in the Book of Ephesians and had been taken out of context.
Source: International Business Times UK
