norman vincent peale, the 1950s minister and self-help guru who wrote the power of positive thinking.sm, mantras like you need be defeated only if you're willing to be and his positive mind set gospel gained him a lot of fans including fred trump, donald trump's father. so much so that he and his family joined peale's church as his granddaughter mary trump told us in 2020. >> and as far as i recollect, my grandfather joined more of a collegiate church which was norman vincent peale's church, the guy who wrote the power of positive thinking in the '50s, so you know, i never got the impression that any of them with the exception of marianne, who converted to catholicism before her first marriage was particularly religious or church going. >> that donald trump was never particularly religious or church going was news to absolutely no one, but now trump is using his own brand of positive thinking to dupe his self proclaimed christian supporters into believing he is the second coming of jesus himself. his own brand of the power of maga thinking, fusing his own perverse message into his ral