After a week of Democrat mouthpieces deriding the power of prayer, a resurfaced Trump speech is going viral on the internet in which then-candidate Donald Trump reiterated an oft-repeated claim that the relationship between America’s founding and Christian roots cannot be untangled. Trump’s comments“ echoed a sentiment he shared throughout the 2024 campaign stating that to make America great again the nation would need to make God’s presence in America great again.
Speaking to an outdoor crowd, the president stated, “As we prepare to celebrate two and a half centuries of freedom, I am inviting America’s great religious communities to pray for our nation and for our people. From the beginning, this has always been a country sustained and strengthened by prayer so important.”
Emphasizing that the return to belief in God, worship, prayer, and religious community would strengthen the bonds of the nation, he added, “If we bring religion back stronger, you’re going to see everything get better and better and better. You’re going to see it get better and better. So as we chart our course for the next 250 years, let us rededicate ourselves to one nation under God.”
Watch the clip reshared by the White House’s social media account on X from August 30th, 2025:
In another speech given on the campaign trail in 2024, this time at the NRA conference, now-President Trump declared the power of faith yet again, boldly proclaiming, “We know that faith and family, not government and bureaucracy, are the center of American life, and above all else, we know this in America, we don’t worship government. We worship God.” Take a look at that great moment below:
While Trump’s focus on God and religion can be traced back to early candidacy over a decade ago, as Republicans often courted the Christian right – indeed, Trump has always relied on council from America’s faith leaders – it seems almost unquestionable now that what may or may not have been an authentic relationship with God was irrevocably changed after events in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13th of 2024. On that day, an assassin’s bullet grazed his ear after a dramatic, miraculous last-second head turn.
From that day, leading up to his electoral college victory and later at his joint congressional address following his second inauguration, Trump declared that his life was uniquely spare,d as he was positioned to restore American greatness and Americans’ freedoms.
“I was saved by God to make America great again,” the president firmly avowed to a packed chamber. “I believe that.” Without a doubt, Trump’s close-call with death and the recognition of the battle facing the soul of the nation endeared him to a higher purpose and higher power. Watch that last moment below:
The White House sharing the first video with Trump discussing the intertwined nature of America and religion come on the heels of Democrats such as former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki and Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey denouncing prayer and even mocking its purpose in the wake a school shooting the week before. In one statement, Frey callously said the children who were shot were already prayer, insinuating that if it didn’t protect them then what good did it do in the aftermath.