President Donald Trump addressed the National Prayer Breakfast, stating that his relationship with religion evolved after two failed assassination attempts last year. He emphasized the importance of religion for happiness and urged Americans to reintegrate God into their lives. Trump also called for protecting religious liberty as a fundamental American value.
President Donald Trump speaks during the National Prayer Breakfast , at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025.
“I really believe you can’t be happy without religion, without that belief,” Trump said at the Capitol. “Let’s bring religion back. Let’s bring God back into our lives.”“I feel even stronger,” he continued. “I believed in God, but I feel, I feel much more strongly about it. Something happened.”The president, who’s a nondenominational Christian, called religious liberty “part of the bedrock of American life” and called for protecting it with “absolute devotion.
“I don’t like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong,” Trump said then in his winding speech, in which he also held up two newspapers with banner headlines about his acquittal. “Nor do I like people who say, ‘I pray for you,’ when they know that that’s not so.”
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