During remarks he made this morning at the National Prayer Breakfast, Donald Trump appeared to openly mock Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) for daring to pray before he eats a meal.
Hoping to attach himself to the religious right of the Republican Party even though he never goes to church and cannot name a single verse of the Bible as his favorite, Trump began his comments by bragging that he had returned religion to public life in the United States.
“In 2025 more copies of the Holy Bible were sold in the United States that any time in the last 100 years. How about that? How about that? Did you know that, Mr. Speaker?”
“You know, Mike Johnson is a very religious person,” Trump continued. “He does not hide it. He’ll say to me sometimes at lunch, ‘Sir, may we pray.’ I’ll say, ‘Excuse me? We’re having lunch in the Oval –’ That’s okay with me. But he’s a very religious person and he is popular and he is doing an unbelievable job. I think God is watching over you.”
Trump also suggested that he likes to stay close to Johnson because he thinks the Speaker’s piety will help keep him out of harm’s way, too.
“I don’t know about me, so I hang around him because I feel unprotected a little bit.”
Considering that Trump is mentioned over 38,000 times in the latest release of files related to the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, it’ll take a lot more than close proximity to the the faux religiosity of Mike Johnson to spare him from eternal damnation.
Enjoy hell, Donnie. Maybe you can get a job down there as a tour guide.
