President Donald Trump said Thursday that his relationship with religion had “changed” after a pair of failed assassination attempts last year, as he advocated at the National Prayer Breakfast at the Capitol for Americans to “bring God back into our lives.”
Trump joined a more than 70-year-old Washington tradition that brings together a bipartisan group of lawmakers for fellowship.
“I really believe you can’t be happy without religion, without that belief,” Trump said. “Let’s bring religion back. Let’s bring God back into our lives.”
Trump reflected on having a bullet coming within a hair’s breadth of killing him at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, last year, telling lawmakers and attendees, “It changed something in me, I feel.” “I feel even stronger,” he continued. “I believed in God, but I feel, I feel much more strongly about it. Something happened.” He drew laughs when he expressed gratitude that the episode “didn’t affect my hair.”
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