page_title: St. John's Episcopal Church, Lafayette Square
section_title: 2020 Trump photo-op
hierarchical_section_title: St. John's Episcopal Church, Lafayette Square / Church of the Presidents / 2020 Trump photo-op
caption_attribution_description: President Donald J. Trump walks from the White House Monday evening, June 1, 2020, to St. John’s Episcopal Church, known as the church of Presidents’s, that was damaged by fire during demonstrations in nearby LaFayette Square Sunday evening. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)
context_page_description: St. John's Episcopal Church, Lafayette Square is a historic Episcopal church located at Sixteenth Street and H Street NW, in Washington, D.C. The Greek Revival building, designed by Benjamin Latrobe, is adjacent to Lafayette Square, one block from the White House. It is often called the Church of the Presidents.
  Every sitting president has attended the church at least once since it was built in 1816, starting with James Madison. With the exception of Richard Nixon, every president since Franklin D. Roosevelt has attended spiritual services on Inauguration Day, many at St. John's. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960.
context_section_description: During the George Floyd protests on the night of May 31, 2020, several fires were set in Washington, D.C. including one set in the basement of Ashburton House, the parish house of St. John's Episcopal Church. The fire was isolated to the church nursery and extinguished by firefighters. According to the church's rector, Reverend Rob Fisher, during the protests "a fire was lit in the nursery, in the basement of Ashburton House" of the church. Fisher wrote that the fire was small, destroying the nursery room but leaving the rest of the church untouched, except by graffiti.
  The next day, police and National Guard troops cleared out demonstrators in the immediate area around the church, using tear gas, smoke canisters, and pepper balls, to allow President Donald Trump a photo opportunity standing in front of the church. Episcopal Bishop of Washington, Mariann Budde, who oversees the church, criticized the use of tear gas to clear the grounds of the church for photo opportunity "as a backdrop for a message antithetical to the teachings of Jesus."
caption: President Donald Trump's photo op at the boarded-up Ashburton House, June 1, 2020
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