# Norman Vincent Peale Author of *The Power of Positive Thinking* (1952) and pastor of Marble Collegiate Church — where the Trump family worshipped. Peale's theology of confident assertion over reality ("attitudes are more important than facts") is a documented formative influence on [[Donald Trump]], who called him "my pastor" — the KB's through-line from positive-thinking religion to post-truth politics and the salesman's reality-distortion style.