Donald Trump

=== Lafayette Square protester removal and photo op ===
{{Main|Donald Trump photo op at St. John's Church}}
[[File:President Trump Visits St. John's Episcopal Church (49964153176).jpg|thumb|Trump and group of officials and advisors on the way from White House complex to St. John's Church]]
On June 1, 2020, during the [[George Floyd protests]], federal law-enforcement officials used [[less lethal]] weapons to remove a largely peaceful crowd of protesters from [[Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C.|Lafayette Square]], outside the [[White House]].<ref name="wb">{{cite news|last1=Leonnig|first1=Carol D.|author-link1=Carol D. Leonnig|last2=Zapotosky|first2=Matt|last3=Dawsey|first3=Josh|author-link3=Josh Dawsey|last4=Tan|first4=Rebecca|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/barr-personally-ordered-removal-of-protesters-near-white-house-leading-to-use-of-force-against-largely-peaceful-crowd/2020/06/02/0ca2417c-a4d5-11ea-b473-04905b1af82b_story.html|title=Barr personally ordered removal of protesters near White House, leading to use of force against largely peaceful crowd|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=June 2, 2020|access-date=June 3, 2020}}</ref><ref name="bumpline">{{cite news|last=Bump|first=Philip|date=June 2, 2020|title=Timeline: The clearing of Lafayette Square|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/02/timeline-clearing-lafayette-square/|access-date=June 6, 2020}}</ref> Trump then walked to [[St. John's Episcopal Church, Lafayette Square|St. John's Episcopal Church]], where protesters had set a small fire the night before; he posed for photographs holding a Bible, with senior administration officials later joining him in photos.<ref name="wb" /><ref>{{cite web|last1=Gittleson|first1=Ben|last2=Phelps|first2=Jordyn|title=Police use munitions to forcibly push back peaceful protesters for Trump church visit|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/national-guard-troops-deployed-white-house-trump-calls/story?id=71004151 |access-date=June 29, 2021|work=[[ABC News]]|date=June 3, 2020}}</ref>

Religious leaders condemned the treatment of protesters and the photo opportunity itself.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Stableford|first1=Dylan|last2=Wilson|first2=Christopher|title=Religious leaders condemn teargassing protesters to clear street for Trump|url=https://news.yahoo.com/religious-leaders-condemn-gassing-protesters-to-clear-street-for-trump-192800782.html|access-date=June 8, 2020|work=[[Yahoo! News]]|date=June 3, 2020}}</ref> Many retired military leaders and defense officials condemned Trump's proposal to use the U.S. military against anti-police-brutality protesters.<ref>{{cite web|title=Scores of retired military leaders publicly denounce Trump|url=https://apnews.com/article/252914f8a989a740544be6d4992d044c|access-date=June 8, 2020|work=[[AP News]]|date=June 6, 2020}}</ref>