President Donald Trump became personally in the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, spoke about his faith trip and noticed how last year's murder attempt 'changed something in me' and even threw a joke about his hair.
It was a rare moment of Trump's introspection, sprinkled with humor.
Trump noted that 'God looked at me on July 13, 2024, when he was shot and injured by an Assassin's Rifle Bullet who beat his ear during his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
He had come aside at the last minute to point out a graph on stage that showed the newest immigration numbers in the United States – a movement that saved his life.
“Immigration saved my life,” Trump joked before he started talking about the bullet that hit his head and hit his right ear.
“It didn't affect my hair. Can you believe it? It may have touched, but not where it counts, “he said, while legislators laughed. Trump's blonde bouffant is his characteristic look.
He then became serious.
'But it is still, to be honest, it is a very bad one – it has changed something in me. I feel even stronger. I believed in God, but I feel much stronger about it, something happened, “he said.
Donald Trump is helped by the American secret service providers of the stage after being shot – he told the legislators on Thursday that the event changed him
President Donald Trump speaks during the annual national prayer breakfast in the Capitol
The National Prayer Breakfast is an annual event in the Capitol, where the President of the United States joins both parties from both parties for a morning of prayer and reflection.
The breakfast is a tradition since 1953.
In his comments during the annual event, Trump called for the return of religion, made a few jokes and became personally about his faith. He also praised the memory of Billy Graham, mourned those who were lost in the DCA -Crash, called for a new air traffic control system and appealed to bighthelessness.
He noticed that “God looked at me in Pennsylvania on that day and added that the incident even his sons, Don Jr. And Eric, changed.
“God looked at me. The chances I am here – my sons are shooters. They are really good shooters, Don and Eric and they said, the chances of missing from that reach with that gun – Don it the same as a putt of one foot, “he said.
He then joked: “That's pretty bad, two feet, I can miss it.”
He further said that his eldest son Don Jr. “What got religion. He went up 25 percent and if you know him, that's a lot. But he said there had to be someone you saved, and I think I know who it is. '
The president also referred to last week's deadly air accident in Washington DC, which resulted in the death of 67 people.
“That event, just like the tragedy last week, should remind us of everything we have to make every day the maximum,” he said.
He also called on legislators to finance a new air traffic control system for the country.
“I think we're going to happen, we're all going to sit down and do a great automated system for our control towers, brand new,” he said.
“We have to come together and just pass as a single invoice, where we get the best operating system.”
Donald Trump after an assignment attempt in Butler, Pa., Last year
President Donald Trump arrives in the Capitol for the National Prayer Breakfast
Trump started his speech by calling for the return of religion to the country.
“We have to return religion,” he said.
'It is one of the biggest problems we have had lately. We have to bring it back, “he said.
He also spoke about his achievements as president in the past three weeks and said: 'Our country is starting to do well again. It happens quickly, a little faster than people thought. '
He also received a plug for his proposal to build a National Garden of American Heroes. Trump wants to build a national park with images of large Americans.
He needs the congress to finance the project and teased the legislators that he can add some of them to the park.
'Some of you will soon be in saints. Some of you, “he said. 'Let's take a look. I can now choose a few by looking. Here are some of you now, I can see it. '
The legislators are laughing when Trump scanned the room.
“It will be something very special, and I hope that the congress will fully finance this wonderfully uniting project in the first possible chance,” he added.
He also shared his memories of the Reverend Billy Graham.
“He was something,” he noticed. “My father took me to look at the crusades. He would take me to the Yankee Stadium. I remember so well. I remember it more than I remember a Yankee game. And I have seen many Yankee games. Can you believe it? And Billy did not have bat, so you know, he is pretty good. It was great. '
And he had his own message for the Republicans and Democrats who listened to him.
'Never give up. Never give up. That is not possible, “he said. “What about me? If I had given up, I wouldn't be here now. Who knows where I would be? It may not be a good place. If it was up to the Democrats. It would not be a good place at all. Never give up. '
Trump changed his tune during his next event.
He attacked Democrats when he spoke during a second prayer breakfast on Thursday and said they are to God.
'I can tell you the other side, the opposite side – they oppose religion, they resist God. They have lost their self -confidence. They have lost their self -confidence. It is a different group of people than I remember, “he said about the Democratic Party.
President Donald Trump and Pastor Paula White attend the annual National Prayer Breakfast in Hilton Hotel in Washington
Trump took a remarkably different tone when he gave his second speech of the morning. In the Capitool, Trump teased the two -part National Prayer Breakfast the Democratic and Republican legislators in the audience and spoke about his journey of faith.
But an hour later, on the road in the Hilton Hotel to speak with a private group, Trump went to the attack.
He repeated his false claim that he won the 2020 elections and wrongly claimed that he brought the president back to breakfast. President Joe Biden was present every year.
He noticed the crowd that he received the Olympic Games and the World Cup for the country, claiming: “It was all because of the presidency after what was, what should have been mine – should have really been. And they had a small election that, let's say, just did not succeed too correctly. '
But, he noticed, he would be on the events now that he won the 2024 match.
'I'm going to be here for the Olympic Games and the World Cup. What about that? God works in a very strange manners, “he said.
He threw between various topics in his comments. He praised his interior secretary Doug Burgum, who was present and then told him jokes to leave and 'looking for oil'. He spoke about the attacks of 7 October on Israel by Hamas.
And he concluded by announcing a new religion committee and setting up an office of the White House.
“I announce that I will create a brand new presidential committee for religious freedom,” he said. 'It will be a very big problem that will work tirelessly to maintain this most fundamental law.
'Unfortunately, in recent years we have seen this holy freedom as never before in American history. Nothing has happened like the past four years, what happened to so many things have become bad, but religion, what they have done and the persecution they have performed have just been terrible, “he said.
And he said that he would sign an executive order in which the Attorney General Pam Bondi is being established to eradicate anti-Christian bias in the federal government.
