What National Prayer Breakfast? The one in Washington, DC. What leader? Donald Trump.
Some of it was predictable, like saying he doesn’t understand how Christians could vote for the Democrats. Well, that one is familiar. Here we have Christians saying they don’t know how someone could vote Labor/Green/Coalition with the most recent twist of some local Trumpy types saying they can’t see how Christians can vote Liberal. But the President had a LOT more to say. It was a long rambling speech, and the Other cheek has assembled some excerpts to save you time., focusing on mentions of religion, amid a lot about politics.
“Not too many presidents have done too much for religion,” President Trump told the National Prayer Breakfast. “I want to tell you that certainly modern-day, certainly, modern-day presidents, they bailed out on you. They bailed out. They want to be neutral. They want to be neutral or against. The Democrats are against. I don’t know how a person of faith can vote for a Democrat. I really don’t, and I know we have some here today, and I don’t know why they’re here. They certainly don’t give us their vote.
He pivots quickly to a political issue. “I certainly know that we’re not going to be convincing them to vote for a little thing called voter ID. It polls at 97% and even the Democrat, the people, the voters are at 82% for voter ID, but the leaders don’t want to approve it. They said they will strike. They will not allow it to happen.”
Coal: Trump hails Secretary of the Interior Doug Bergham. “We’re taking out more energy out of our beautiful land, oil and gas, clean oil and gas, and I always say clean, beautiful coal. I told the only thing I told these two guys they have to do because they’re the greatest energy people in the world, the best. I said, when you mention the word cold, anytime you mention coal, see, COAL, anytime you mention it has to be proceeded by two words, clean and beautiful. So Doug was making a speech the other day, and I sort of tried to pass a note. He said, he mentioned call about 40 times, and he kept saying, clean, beautiful. It really only works a few times, right? I said, no, no.
“When you say coal clean, beautiful, we buy all that wind from, we don’t anymore. So we haven’t approved anything in wind, right, Doug? Nothing because it’s a quick way to losing money, losing beauty, losing your fields, killing your birds, and other than that, it doesn’t work. And Europe is so bad with the windmills; they’re destroying their country with wind and I was over there. It’s not even recognisable what they’ve done. They’ve got a big problem on their hands between immigration and energy. Europe is destroying itself and they’d better get smart. And I love ’em all. I’m friends with everyone of every country over there. I’ve helped them a lot. Got the GDP up from 2% to 5%, which is for spending for military spending. Nobody thought that was possible. Nobody thought 2% was possible. Got ’em to 5%. But it’s not recognisable Europe if you go through the different cities….”
On Nigeria: “We knocked the hell out of ’em the other day in Nigeria because they were killing Christians. You know about that. They were killing Christians. You can’t do that. When Christians come under attack, they know they’re going to be attacked violently and viciously by President Trump. I know it’s not a nice thing to say, but that’s the way it is.”
On Religion: “We have very important words to say, and this is such an important group, and we have plenty of time to say it because when it comes to religion, I have all the time, I’m one of the few that say we have all the time in the world. But in that momentous day in 1776, history changed forever. When our founders proclaimed the immortal truths that echoed around the world and down all the way through time, they declared that all of us are made free and equal by the hand of our creator. A lot of precedents refuse to say that. They refuse to say that some refuse, some major politicians refuse to say the word God. They don’t want to say it. I say it that we are endowed with our sacred rights to life, liberty, and not by government, but by God Almighty Himself.
“And those words rang out from Philadelphia and launched a revolution, not just in America, but in the hearts of all humanity, the principles of the Declaration of Independence, which is one of three sitting right beautifully in the Oval Office. I took it out of the vaults and it’s beautiful. It’s beautifully protected, and it’s a magnificent document. I stare at it all the time, and I read it as often as I can, a true brilliant work of art. They’ve stirred the spirit of patriots in every nation, liberated millions from tyranny and lifted billions from poverty. And it’s doing now more than ever before, we’re doing better than this country’s ever done in one year. Think of what we can do. We just have to keep it going.”
Trump then pivots to tax cuts.
Rededicating the nation: “This, by the way, will be the last year that Democrats show up to this event, I tell you, but I got to say, how the hell do you vote for these people? But some churches are seeing a 30%, 50% or even 70% increase in the number of converts, and also the number of people going to church every week to support this exciting renewal. This morning. I’m pleased to announce that on May 17th, 2026, that we’re inviting Americans from all across the country to come together on our national mall to pray, to give thanks and to we are going to do something that everyone said like, that’s tough. We’re going to rededicate America as one nation under God. ”
[Applause]
Speaker 3 (48:47):
Thank you very much. That’s what I mean by the Spirit. So incredible to see it. I see it so much. I’ve never seen anything like it. In one year. I thought it would take two years, three years, four years to be where we are. We’ve done it in, I mean, really 10 months we’re 12, but now it’s just getting to a level that we’ve never reached before as a country. But that includes religion. I mean, and maybe that’s part of the reason that we’re doing so well. There’s such great spirit. It’s all spirit, and it includes religion.
“I’ve always said, you just can’t have a great country if you don’t have religion. You have to believe in something. You have to believe that what we’re doing, there’s a reason for it. There has to be a reason for it. We’re all working and we’re do what we’re behaving. I mean, I behave because I’m afraid not to. Okay? I don’t want to get in trouble. No, it’s such a positive thing and people are starting to see it, and they go into church and they’re meeting people and families are developing. It’s really the things are happening in our country right now, and we have to get the bad ones out.” Then a pivot to immigration policy.
Trump and the Bible. Talking about his endorsements by religious leaders, Trump hails a Southern Baptist minister from a Dallas mega church. “You have a Robert Jeffress. I don’t know if he’s here. Is he here? Robert? Is he here? Robert Jeffress was on television in 2016 when I just sort of announced I was running. And he said, I know every candidate very well. There were 17, 18 candidates, me and 17 others. He said, I know every candidate very well, and I know Trump a little bit, but he may not be as good with the Bible as some of them. He may not have read the Bible as much as some of them. In fact, he may not have ever read the Bible, but he will be a much stronger messenger for us, and he will get things done that no other man has the ability to get done. And I endorsed him fully, and I said, I didn’t want to admit anything, but that was very interesting.
Transgender: “We expanded the Mexico City policy to stop taxpayer dollars from being used to promote radical gender ideology all around the world. No other president would do that. No other president would do it, and my administration also rejoined the Geneva Consensus declaration to affirm the right to sovereign nations to protect life, defend the family, and to be faithful to God. Nobody ever did that. I signed an executive order to slash federal funding for any public school that pushes transgender insanity. This is crazy on a you who would think about that? Who would think if you go back 15 years, you’re talking about, and I stopped the mutilation of children, the mutilation, the word is mutilation. They mutilate the mutilation of children. I stopped it. Who would think if you said that 15 years ago, they’d say, what the hell is he talking? Is he crazy At levels you’ve never seen? We’re still fighting it, but transgender for everybody they want transgender for everybody. We stopped it and we also, very importantly, we got men out of women’s sports. It’s enough of that mindset. “
Religious persecution: “Miriam Ibrahim is a Christian from Sudan and I’m working hard to end that war. We’re very close to getting it done. That’ll be number nine if we don’t get Russia, Ukraine first, but we’re working hard to end that whole war. We’re very close to doing it. We’ve almost done it.
In 2014, a Sharia court in that country sentenced her to 100 lashes and death for marrying a Christian man. At the time she was eight months pregnant with a daughter. Miriam was ordered to renounce her faith in Christ, but she refused to do so and gave birth to that daughter Maya while she was in shackles being beaten and living in a condition that nobody in this room would even be able to imagine.
“Believers all over the planet rallied to Miriam’s cause prayed for her protection and successfully pressured for her release. I did that. I did that with one phone call actually, and she had such support. It was so easy and when explained it to the powers that be, yes sir, we’ll do it right away. I just wish I knew earlier, but it’s a big world with a lot of people.
“Miriam and Maya are here this morning and now live safely in America where we protect Christians. We don’t kill them, we protect them, and you’re getting protected better now than you’ve ever been protected before. So Miriam and Maya, thank you. Where are you? Are they here? They’re here someplace. Where are you? Please stand up. Stand up. Thank you.”
Peace in the Middel East: “Speaker 3 (01:12:44):
n October, I ended the war in Gaza, saving hundreds of thousands of lives. It’s amazing. We have peace in the Middle East, by the way. First time in 3000 years we have peace. They’re little, little embers, but it’s nothing much. We got back the last hostage, dead hostage. We got back all the hostages now all of ’em. We got the 20, but we got many hundreds back before that. But we got back the last hostage dead hostage and Hamas helped us get it back. It was a big statement. Now they have to disarm. Some people say they won’t, but they will and if they don’t, they’re going to not be around any longer.
“But they agreed to disarm. As the Bible tells us, Blessed are the peacemakers. That’s true. The peacemakers are very important, but you can only have peace I find through strength. If you don’t have strength, peace is very hard and we have strength. In one year, I’ve ended eight raging wars such as Cambodia and Thailand, Kosovo and Serbia, Pakistan and India, Israel and Iran, Armenia and Azerbaijan.”
Love and Patriotism: recounting the story of the floods that drowned campers at a Christian camp in texas, Trump extols prayer. “It reminds us that prayers strengthen, prayers heal, prayer empowers and prayer saves. Quite simply, prayer is America’s superpower. It really is a superpower and it always has been and it always will be. And I have no doubt that with the love, devotion and patriotism of the people in this room and our friends from all over the world, some great ones right here, we can make our country and the world a safer, stronger, more peaceful and more faithful place than ever before.”