President Donald Trump is accused of befriending a scammer who poses as a man of the cloth.
Lorenzo Sewell, the Detroit pastor who delivered the benediction at Donald Trump’s Inauguration, is going viral because of his seedy past.
Sewell is a former drug dealer and gang leader whose father went to prison and his younger brother was killed in gang violence.
Sewell, 43, is senior pastor at 180 Church in Detroit, Michigan. In January 2019, He appeared at the 2024 Republican National Convention as Trump’s guest. Trump spoke at the 180 Church in June 2024. Sewell praised Trump for going into a church in the hood.
The church was paid $5,000 for hosting Trump’s campaign stop.
In his sermon at Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, Sewell described Trump’s survival of an assassination attempt as “a millimeter miracle”.
This prayer by Pastor Lorenzo Sewell at the Inauguration did not disappoint. pic.twitter.com/ut7wMQrI4L
— Brandon Tatum (@TheOfficerTatum) January 20, 2025
Black Twitter criticized Sewell’s benediction and called him a c**n.
“Pastor Lorenzo Sewell I hope I never reach your level of c**nery,” one X user wrote.
Another user wrote, “They should not have let this pastor Lorenzo Sewell carry on with this ‘benediction’ like that, at the inauguration. What a disgrace.”
Sewell raised suspicions when he launched a meme coin after attending Trump’s inauguration ceremony.
“I need you to do me a favor right now: I need you to go buy the official Lorenzo Sewell coin,” he said in a social media post. “I want you to be able to see politics become manifest not just in a way where we’re paying over political gatherings, but we’re seeing us become the hands and feet of the lord Jesus Christ. Will you help me?”
Meme coins are considered cryptocurrency scams because the original investors become millionaires while public investors are left holding worthless cryptocurrency.
Original investors usually sell their coins on the day of the launch, causing the price of the coin to nosedive. This is known as a “rug pull.”
The value of Sewell’s meme coin spiked initially and then dropped to a fraction of a penny. Some X users accused Sewell of a rug pull.
Sewell denied the allegations and said the proceeds from the meme coin launch will pay for church services and he would not sell his own coins.
