Trump urges Americans to 'focus on prayer, grow in personal relationship with God' in Easter message
It is great that our President and Vice President are remembering Holy Week and openly taking about our faith and hope in trying times like this. It was heartwarming to see him talk about faith and belief and using faith based charities to help dealing with the pandemic. I’m also glad that Fox News is going all in in covering Holy Week celebrations all weekend. These are the times that try our souls and it’s comforting to know we have hope and know the source of it. Thank you President Trump for all that you are doing to combat the pandemic and now focus on restarting the economy. Thanks for recognizing the role of faith and belief and the works based on them in getting us through this to better times.
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Ahead of the coronavirus task force briefing Friday, President Trump gave an Easter message, urging Americans to “focus on prayer, reflection, and growing in our personal relationship with God” during “this sacred time” as most churches hold services online, and asked Virginia pastor Bishop E.W. Jackson to pray.
“On this Good Friday, Christians from all around the world remember the suffering and death upon the cross of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ,” Trump said at the briefing at the White House. “At Easter Sunday, we will celebrate His glorious resurrection.”
Trump said as people won’t be able to “gather together with one another as we normally would on Easter,” they can “use this sacred time to focus on prayer, reflection, and growing in our personal relationship with God. So important.”
He continued, “I ask all Americans to pray that God will heal our nation; to bring comfort to those who are grieving; to give strength to the doctors, nurses, and healthcare workers; to restore health to the sick; and to renew the hope in every person who is suffering. Our nation will come through like never before.”
Trump assured that the U.S. death toll from the new coronavirus pandemic will be “substantially less” than the last week’s projection of 100,000.
As of early Saturday, there were more than 1.7 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 around the world with 103,257 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University . In the United States, the case count was 501,615 with 18,777 deaths.
The president acknowledged that “many families” have prayed “for me and for my family.” He said, “your prayers are felt, and I am forever grateful.”
Trump thanked “our great Vice President (Mike Pence) and his wonderful wife, who we all know very well, Karen, for the incredible job they do and for their service not only to the country but for their service to God.”
Trump quoted Prophet Isaiah, “Darkness covers the Earth…but the Lord rises upon you, and His glory appears over you…For the Lord will be your everlasting light.”
As America “battles the invisible enemy,” he continued, “we reaffirm that Americans believe in the power of prayer. We give thanks for the majesty of creation and for the gift of eternal life. And we place our trust in the hands of Almighty God.”
Also on Friday, a pro-Israel organization in the U.S., Christians United for Israel, thanked Trump for his leadership.
“We are grateful to President @realDonaldTrump for his leadership during this crisis and join him in rejoicing during this Easter weekend and praying for our country and leaders as well as doctors, nurses, first responses, and the many people affected by this virus,” the group wrote on Instagram . “We are believing God for healing and restoration for our country.”
In his prayer that followed Trump’s Easter message at the White House, Bishop Jackson, senior pastor of Fall Church in Chesapeake, Virginia, thanked the President for including the churches in the relief efforts. “Many churches would’ve had to close down … had it not been for your insightful leadership,” he said.
“Lord, let the death angel pass over. Let there be a mitigation of this plague, this disease. Let medical science come forth,” Jackson continued. “Lord, let us come out with a thriving economy. That silver and gold spoken of in that passage, let it be our portion.”
He also prayed that “the spirit of division” in the nation will be broken. “Lord, let e pluribus unum be a reality in us. Let there be a uniting of America. Heal the divide between race, class, and gender.”
At the White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing , Trump said he plans to attend the online Easter Sunday service hosted by pastor Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Dallas, Texas.
“We have Easter Sunday, and I’m going to be watching pastor Robert Jeffress, who’s been a great guy," Trump said. "And I’m going to be watching on a laptop. Now a laptop is not the same as being in his church or being in another church. It’s not."
Jeffress is also a member of Trump's Evangelical Advisory Board.
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Pandering to the base, the man has not one religious bone is his body.
That's possible, but politicians say things they don't really mean to pander to their base every day. If he's saying a nice thing, I'm not going to spend the day worrying about whether or not he "really means it." Just enjoy the nice message.
I can appreciate the sentiment but also acknowledge that he doesn't mean it and is an asshole.
Watching Trump lecture on how to be religious is as funny as watching him blowhard about everything else he is clueless about, which is almost everything. Scamming and conning and lying, he knows though.
I watched some of Pope Francis Good Friday mass from St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. It is a huge church and there were about 20 or 30 people there, nuns and clerics, all keeping social distance.
Sad times.
tRump informed us to enjoy Good Friday. The Matthew 23 tRump does not understand that the passion of my Lord Jesus Christ was about suffering to forgive our sins. In a nutshell, Christ died on the cross for our sins to be forgiven. tRump is causing Americans to suffer and many die for his sins.
Did the Westboro Baptists tell you that?
Lol oh god, I love religion. There is no other concept in human history where people can be so full of shit and pretend they aren't, and other people will buy into it without question. It actually is amazing to watch.
I am positive that if I said right now that I found Jesus and he is speaking to me personally, there is 1 religious person on this site that would ignore literally my entire history when it comes to religion, and believe me. Fucking amazing.