“We’re going to the church,” Trump told them. Almost everyone at the White House that evening seemed to join in: Esper and Milley, National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien and Barr, senior advisers, family members Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, Trump aide Hope Hicks and White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. It was one of the most photographed and videotaped parades of the Trump presidency.
