--- title: Sarah Sanders: God 'Wanted Donald Trump to Become President' description: Sarah Huckabee Sanders told CBN that God wanted Donald Trump to be president, and called him our most conservative president. canonical: https://time.com/5517475/sarah-sanders-god-donald-trump/ author: Jamie Ducharme article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-01-31T15:17:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T22:38:43.583Z article:section: Politics og:title: Sarah Huckabee Sanders: God 'Wanted Donald Trump to Become President' og:description: She also called him our most conservative president og:url: https://time.com/5517475/sarah-sanders-god-donald-trump/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8335b3200fa0ce74/698944497cdbacdec0d5efa7/sarah-sanders.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders Speaks To The Media Outside The White House og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Sarah Huckabee Sanders: God 'Wanted Donald Trump to Become President' twitter:description: She also called him our most conservative president twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8335b3200fa0ce74/698944497cdbacdec0d5efa7/sarah-sanders.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Sarah Sanders Tells Christian TV Network That God 'Wanted Donald Trump to Become President' > Sponsored content. 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Jan 31, 2019 3:17 PM UTC White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in an interview that God wanted Donald Trump to become president, and called him one of the most conservative presidents in history. “I think God calls all of us to fill different roles at different times and I think that He wanted Donald Trump to become president,” Sanders told the Christian Broadcasting Network in [an interview published Wednesday](https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/politics/2019/january/exclusive-white-house-press-secretary-sarah-sanders-god-wanted-donald-trump-to-become-president). “That’s why he’s there and I think he has done a tremendous job in supporting a lot of the things that people of faith really care about.” Sanders went on to call Trump “the most conservative president that we’ve ever had,” pointing to his [judicial nominations](http://time.com/5417538/bett-kavanaugh-confirmed-senate-supreme-court/) as evidence. “There’s a reason evangelicals are sticking with the President, and that’s because he’s delivered on all the things he said he would do,” Sanders said. Trump has garnered [support from Christian voters](http://time.com/4189587/donald-trump-christian-conservatives/), particularly evangelicals, despite his [changing stances on abortion](http://time.com/4538293/donald-trump-partial-birth-abortion-third-debate/) and controversy-filled personal life. He has spoken out against issues like the “[war on Christmas](http://time.com/4981448/value-voters-summit-donald-trump-speech/)” and [persecution of Christian refugees](http://time.com/4652367/donald-trump-refugee-policy-christians/) from Syria, and won support from the evangelical base by appointing conservatives Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, potentially tipping the court [on abortion rights.](http://time.com/5475830/supreme-court-brett-kavanaugh-abortion/) Sanders, who is an evangelical Christian, also slammed Democratic leaders, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in the CBN interview, pointing to their support of “late-term abortion.” “Honestly, it’s very hard at this point to even take a lecture from Democrats on what is moral and what isn’t,” Sanders said. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5517475/sarah-sanders-god-donald-trump/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5517475/sarah-sanders-god-donald-trump/"},"headline":"Sarah Sanders Tells Christian TV Network That God 'Wanted Donald Trump to Become President'","datePublished":"2019-01-31T15:17:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T22:38:43.583Z","description":"She also called him our most conservative president","url":"https://time.com/5517475/sarah-sanders-god-donald-trump/","keywords":["Donald Trump","White House","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8335b3200fa0ce74/698944497cdbacdec0d5efa7/sarah-sanders.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jamie Ducharme","jobTitle":"Ducharme is a contributor to TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/jamie-ducharme/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8335b3200fa0ce74/698944497cdbacdec0d5efa7/sarah-sanders.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders Speaks To The Media Outside The White House","caption":"White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders Speaks To The Media Outside The White House","creditText":"Mark Wilson—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5517475/sarah-sanders-god-donald-trump/","name":"Sarah Sanders Tells Christian TV Network That God 'Wanted Donald Trump to Become President'"}}]}] ```