During today’s National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC, Donald Trump slammed Democrats and admitted he doesn’t sleep on planes.
The lengthy address saw Trump speak about a time he was on an aeroplane and told he could sleep in the back during the long journey.
‘I don’t sleep on planes, I don’t like sleeping on planes,’ he said. ‘I like looking out the window, looking for missiles and enemies.’
He also joked that he was afraid of skipping the National Prayer Breakfast because of ‘divine wrath’.
‘I think I’ve been here just about every time. It’s hard to turn it down. I don’t have the courage to turn it down,’ he said.
‘The last time I came, I got in [to DC] at four in the morning. They said, ‘Sir, you’re going to be speaking at seven.’ I said, ‘I’ll be there. I’m afraid not to be. I need all the help I can get.’”
The President also slammed Democrats, claiming he didn’t know how a ‘person of faith’ could vote for a Democrat.
Trump spoke a lot about Christianity during the speech, also referencing recent strikes in Nigeria against ISIS militants, who he said were killing Christians.
‘When Christians come under attack, you know they’re going to be violently and viciously attacked by President Trump,’ he vowed.
He also said the United States was ‘One Nation Under God’, which received a lengthy ovation.
In September, Trump unveiled an order to protect the right to prayer in US public schools.
‘For most of our country’s history, the Bible was found in every classroom in the nation, yet in many schools today, students are instead indoctrinated with anti-religious propaganda, and some are punished for their religious beliefs,’ said Trump.
‘Very, very strongly punished. It is ridiculous.’
Trump vowed that his administration would ‘protect the Judeo-Christian values of our founding’, during his speech at the Religious Liberty Commission’s second public meeting.
Practising religion in public schools is not prohibited, and students have the right to pray as individuals. But the US Supreme Court in 1962 ruled that state-sponsored prayer violates the First Amendment.
