Weekti Holy Week, and President Donald Trump is simply not leading the country, he is bowing tightly to the belief that he is chosen to do so.
With renewed spiritual fire and a gift for providential drama, Trump has intertwined his personal confidence in the structure of his presidency, especially after surviving a murder attempt last year.
“I believe my life was saved that day on Butler for a very good reason,” he said during his address at a common congress session last month. “I was saved from God to make America again brilliant. I believe that.”
It is a feeling that is becoming essential for Trump’s second term. On the morning of the national prayer in February, Trump reflected the most personally: “It changed something in me, I feel even stronger. I believed in God, but I feel much more strongly for that.”
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According to Trump, it was not just a lucky turn of the head – it was divine intervention. As he says it, he looked toward a table at the right time.
“God did it. I mean, it was supposed to be,” he said.
Even Don Jr., Trump’s faithful son and hunting enthusiast, tried.
“He told me the chance to miss that distance was like losing a one -foot blow. It had to be someone to escape, and I think he knows who it is,” Don Jr. said, “and he looked up.”
Trump often credits his Presbyterian education to promote his early sense of morality, and, as he tells him, his fate. At the National Faith Summit of 2024, he remembered to attend Sunday’s school, seeing Billy Graham Crusades and growing up by a devout Scottish mother and a “very strong” but “great heart” father.
President Donald Trump stands for a prayer during a oath ceremony at the Oval Office at the White House, March 28, in Washington, DC (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
“I blessed that I grew up in a house I had had … and that faith lives in my heart every day,” Trump added.
That foundation, he argues, is critical not only for him personally, but for the spirit of the country.
Over the past two years, Trump has repeatedly sounded the alarm for America’s spiritual fall.
In a 2024 August sitting with the host of Fox News Laura Ingraham, he said with the opening: “One of the reasons our country has lost, kind, everything-is lost so much-we have no religion to the same extent.”
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Trump often turns into the role of government during the pandemia as a flash point.
“People were not allowed to meet abroad … They would arrest everyone. They were fascists. They were terrible,” he said. “This was a very bad time for organized religion – but religion, you know, it gives you some hope. Gee, if I’m fine, I’m going to Paradise.”
At the coalition of the coalition of faith and freedom of 2023, he warned, “Religion is falling about importance and popularity. This is not a matter of popularity. We love God, and we want to protect ourselves. It keeps you healthy. It holds you well. It makes you help you.”
President Donald Trump prays during an event of the start of the ‘Gospel Coalition for Trump’ in Miami, January 3, 2020. (Marco Bello/Bloomberg through Getty Images)
From the White House podium to the packaged mega-casket rallies, Trump has used his presidency to defend religious freedom as a cornerstone of his leadership.
“As long as I am president, no one will stop you from practicing your faith or preaching what is in your heart,” he said during his first term in 2017 – and he has echoed that promise from that time.
“Faith inspires us to be better, to be stronger, to be more careful and to give … It’s time to stop attacks on religion,” he said.
Trump made international religious freedom a stable part of his agenda, too. In a 2017 interview for the host of the Christian transmission network (CBN) David Brody, Trump focused on persecuted Christians.
“They are treated terribly … If you were a Christian in Syria, it was impossible, at least very harsh, to enter the United States … We will help them,” he said.
Trump continues to connect America’s founding ideals directly to faith.
“Our Declaration of Independence declares that our rights have been donated to us by our Creator,” he said at the National Prayer Dinner of 2019. “Whenever we vow for faithfulness to our flag, we say we are a nation under God.”
President Donald Trump prays during a roundtable discussion with Latino leaders in Miami. (Chandan Khanna/AFP through Getty Images)
On the national prayer of prayers 2017, he added: “Freedom is not a gift from the government, but that freedom is a gift from God. America will flourish, as long as we continue to trust one another and faith in God.”
Whether he is recounting Sunday school memories or a bullet that lost “where he counts”, Trump’s messages in 2025 are incomprehensible – he believes he is not leading just one place, he is fulfilling a divine mission.
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“I like a very excellent relationship with God and a very great relationship” with the evangelical Christian voters, he told CNN Jake Tapper host in 2016. “I live a very different life than many people would think … I try to lead a good life and I have.”
Now, almost a decade later, is a message that is only stronger, more personal and – in his opinion – more providential.
“It may have touched (my hair),” he told the bulletproof bullet. “But not where you count.”
In his own words of Trump: “I believe in God … but now something happened.”
