Ahead of Trump Bible photo op, police forcibly expel priest from St. John’s church near White House – RNS June 4, 2020 by Fulcrum Early Monday evening (June 1), President Donald Trump stood before the historic St. John’s Episcopal Church in downtown Washington and held aloft a Bible for cameras. The photo opportunity had an eerie quality: Trump said relatively little, positioned stoically in front of the boarded-up church, which had been damaged the day before in a fire during protests sparked by the death of George Floyd on May 25 in Minneapolis. Jack Jenkins. Religion News Service. 3 June 2020 FulcrumShareTweetShare