Like the brush of President Donald Trump with death has transformed his faith into focus
It’s Holy WeekAnd President Donald Trump is not just guiding the country, he is leaning on the belief that he was chosen to do it.
With renewed spiritual fervor and a talent for the providential drama, Trump was By intertwining his personal faith in the fabric of his presidency, especially after surviving an attempt to assassinate last year.
“I think my life was saved that day in Butler for an excellent reason,” he declared during his speech to a joint session of the congress last month. “I was saved by God to make America great again. I believe it.”
It is a feeling that is becoming central to Trump’s second mandate. At the National Prayer Breakfast in February, Trump reflected more personally: “He changed me something in me, I feel. I feel even stronger. I thought in God, but I feel much more strong in this regard”.
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According to Trump, it was not just a lucky turn of the head: it was a divine intervention. While he says, he looked towards a graph at the right time.
“God did it. I mean, he had to be,” he said.
Even Don Jr., the faithful son of Trump and hunting enthusiast, intervened.
“He told me that the possibility of losing from that distance was like losing a Putt from one foot. He had to be someone who saved you, and I think he knows who he is,” said Don Jr., “and looked up.”
Trump often attributes his presbyterian education to instill his first sense of morality and, as he says, his destiny. At the top of the National Faith of 2024, he recalled that he had attended Sunday school, that he had seen Billy Graham Crusades and that he grew up by a devoted Scottish mother and a “very strong” but “big heart” father.
President Donald Trump represents a prayer during a oath ceremony in the oval office in the White House on March 28, in Washington, DC (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
“I was lucky to have grown up in a house in the church … and that faith lives in my heart every single day,” added Trump.
That foundation, he claims, is fundamental not only for him personally, but for the soul of the country.
Over the past two years, Trump has repeatedly played the alarm for the spiritual decline of America.
In a sit-down with Fox News conductor Laura IngrahamHe said in no uncertain terms: “One of the reasons why our country has lost, a little, everything – is so lost – is that we do not have religion in the same size”.
Trump often returns to the role of the government during pandemic as a flash point.
“People were not even allowed to meet out … arrest everyone. They were fascists. They were horrible,” he said. “It was a bad moment for the organized religion – but religion, you know, gives you some hope. Damn, if I’m fine, I go to heaven.”
At the event of the coalition of faith and freedom of 2023, he warned: “Religion is descending in terms of importance and popularity. This is not a matter of popularity. We love God and we want to protect us. He keeps you healthy.
President Donald Trump prays during a launch event of the coalition “Evangelicals for Trump” in Miami, January 3, 2020. (Marco Bello/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
From the podium of the White House to the Mega-Chiesa gatherings, Trump used his presidency to support religious freedom as a milestone of his leadership.
“As long as I am president, nobody will prevent you from practicing your faith or preaching what is in your heart,” he said during his first term in 2017 – and since then he echoed that promise.
“Faith inspires us to be better, to be stronger, to be more caring and give … it is time to stop attacks on religion,” he said.
Trump has also made international religious freedom a coherent part of his agenda. In a 2017 interview with the conductor of Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) David Brody, Trump focused on persecuted Christians.
“They were horribly treated … if you were a Christian in Syria It was impossible, at least very difficult, to enter the United States … we will help them, “he said.
Trump continues to connect the founding ideals of America directly to the faith.
“Our declaration of independence proclaims that our rights are conferred on us by our Creator,” he told the dinner of the National Day of Prayer of 2019. “Every time we promise loyalty to our flag, let’s say we are a nation under God.”
President Donald Trump prays during a round table with the leaders of the Latin community in Miami. (Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images)
In the national breakfast of national prayer of 2017, he added: “Freedom is not a gift from the government, but that freedom is a gift from God. America will prospect, as long as we continue to have mutual faith and faith in God”.
Whether it’s telling the memories of Sunday school or a bullet that has lost “where it counts”, Trump’s messaging in 2025 is unmistakable – he believes that he is not just guiding a country, he is making a divine mission.
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“I like an excellent relationship with God and a great relationship” with the evangelical Christian voters, he told the guest of the CNN Jake Tapper in 2016. “I live a very different life from how much many people would think … I try to lead a good life and I did it.”
Now, almost a decade later, it is a message that has only become stronger, more personal and – in his opinion – more providential.
“It may have touched (my hair),” he said of the murder potential of the murderer. “But not where it matters.”
In the same words as Trump: “I believed in God … but now something has happened”.
