Trump: “America Was Founded On Faith,” “When Faith Gets Weaker, Our Country Seeks To Get Weaker”
WHITE HOUSE: In a powerful address at the Museum of the Bible, President Donald J. Trump emphasized the enduring role of faith in America’s identity, highlighted his Administration’s unwavering defense of faith-based values, and reaffirmed his commitment to protecting our religious freedoms.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Thank you to all of the faith leaders, pastors, and patriots who have come to the Museum of the Bible for this historic meeting of the Presidential Commission on Religious Liberty. These are incredible people, and everybody wanted to be on this commission, and I made a couple of people unhappy, maybe even enemies for life. I don’t know. But they all wanted to be on the commission, but we picked the right ones, and they’ve done a really profound and amazing job. But America was founded on faith, as we know, and I’ve been saying it for a long time. And when faith gets weaker, our country seems to get weaker. When faith gets stronger, as it is right now, we’re having a very good period of time. After some rough years, good things happen for our country. It’s amazing the way it seems to work that way. And under the Trump administration, we’re defending our rights and restoring our identity as a nation under God. We are one nation under God, and we always will be. The need for this commission has never been more clear than it was last week when the ineffectual senator from Virginia, a man named Tim Kaine, stated that the notion our rights come from our Creator is, quote, extremely troubling to him. Very troubling, isn’t it troubling? Isn’t that terrible, though? How he would say something like that, and advocated really by a totalitarian regime. This is what they say. But as everyone in this room understands, it is tyrants who are denying our rights and the rights that come from God. And it’s this Declaration of Independence that proclaims we’re endowed by our Creator with the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The senator from Virginia should be ashamed of himself. For many things. For many things. For things even beyond that. But in its own way, nothing is more important than those words. They were terrible words. As President, I will always defend our nation’s glorious heritage, and we will protect the Judeo-Christian principles of our founding, and we will protect them with vigor. We have to bring back religion in America, bring it back stronger than ever before as our country grows stronger and stronger. Our country is now the hottest nation anywhere in the world. One year ago, our country was dead. And I say it.
