Donald Trump was raised in the First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, Queens, where he was confirmed at age 13 in June 1959, an event he celebrated with a Facebook post in December 2019. His family then started attending the Marble Collegiate Church in Manhattan, which belongs to the Reformed Church in America. Marble went on to play a prominent role in his life, serving as the stage for his wedding ceremony to Ivana in 1977. Later, a Marble minister performed Trump’s wedding to Marla Maples in 1993.
Nevertheless, Trump continued to identify as Presbyterian while maintaining his ties to Marble. In 2015, Trump said that was his church, but Marble had a different opinion regarding his membership. “Donald Trump has had a longstanding history with Marble Collegiate Church … However, as he indicates, he is a Presbyterian and is not an active member of Marble,” it said in a statement to CNN.
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Trump also has a history with the Episcopal church. In 2005, Trump married Melania at Bethesda-by-the-Sea in Palm Beach, Florida — where their son, Barron, was also baptized and where the Trumps often attended Christmas and Easter services. That wasn’t the case in 2019, however, when he opted for a Baptism church instead. Indeed, Trump’s affiliation with the Presbyterian faith seems to have waned. “Though I was confirmed at a Presbyterian church as a child, I now consider myself to be a non-denominational Christian,” he told Religion News Service in 2020.
