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But I want to thank the dozens of members of Congress here this morning, including a man of immense faith and immense talent. He’s a very talented man. He’s a small minority. It’s just really, because we go back and forth between minority and majority, and half the time we’re minority and we still win. How do we win with a minority? You know, we have a couple of people that I consider to be negative. But we’re one up, two up. Sometimes we’re three up. In fact, we’ll have two more victories very soon. We’ll be three up. And we consider that having a massive majority.
I don’t know how a person of faith can vote for a Democrat. I really don’t. And I know we have some here today, and I don’t know why they’re here, because they certainly don’t give us their vote.
They rigged the second election. I had to win it. Had to win it. I needed it for my own ego. I would have had a bad ego for the rest of the month. Now I really have a big ego, though. Beating these lunatics was incredible. Right? What a great feeling.
by the way, us and them [Venezuela], we have 68 percent of the world’s oil. Now, I know that doesn’t mean too much to people of great religion. I know you want to hear about — but, you know, we got to keep our country strong, and we’re doing really good.
[Biden] was our worst President. We had some bad ones. We had — Obama was a very bad — terrible divider of our country. He divided our — he was a divider. And believe it or not, we’re bringing the country together. You know what’s bringing it together? Tremendous success. We’re having tremendous success.
That’s why I was in Iowa last week with the farmers who were doing very well. We just handed them $12 billion out of tariff money because they were taken advantage of by foreign countries, various foreign countries.
And Europe is getting — you know, Europe is so bad with the windmills, they’re destroying their country with wind.
Where’s Tulsi? She took a lot of heat two days ago because she went in at Pam’s insistence. She went in and she looked at votes that want to be checked out from Georgia. They say, “why is she doing it?” Right, Pam? “Why is she doing it?” Because Pam wanted her to do it. And you know why? Because she’s smart.
I mean, I sleep on the plane. I don’t sleep on planes. I don’t like sleeping on planes, you know. I like looking out the window, watching for missiles and enemies, actually.
President Bukele of El Salvador. He has been so incredible.
He operates rather large prisons, like prisons that’s so large you can’t see from one side to the other unless you have perfect 20-20 eyesight with binoculars. That’s how long and big. And they do a job. They do a very humane job. But they’re very strong prisons.
This prayer breakfast comes at a special time for our country as we prepare to celebrate the 250th anniversary of American independence. And we’re also, very shortly, going to have the Olympics and the World Cup. And, you know, I got them. I was the one that got the Olympics, and I was the one that got. And I was so upset because I got them. I tried to move them up, but I couldn’t.
And at some point, I’m going to get right back onto the teleprompter, and you’re going to say, that was a wonderful speech. On that momentous day in 1776 — is that — this is so much easier. You know, it takes real talent to do the other. The other is much more talent, but that’s why we’re President, I think. We have very important words to say, and this is such an important group. And we have plenty of time to say it, because when it comes to religion, I have all the time. I’m one of the few that say we have all the time in the world.
And I may be wrong, but I don’t think so, because I’ve watched a lot and I study a lot. You have to have religion. You have to have it. You have to have faith. You have to have God. And thankfully, as we gather today, there are many signs that religion is coming back. And now it’s no longer signs. It’s just coming back. It’s coming back so strong. You know, your churches are filling up. You didn’t have that two years ago.
You know, Mike Johnson is a very religious person, and he does not hide it. He’ll say to me sometimes at lunch, “Sir, may we pray?” I say, “Excuse me? What happened to lunch?”
This, by the way, will be the last year that Democrats show up to this event, I tell you.
And it was the Johnson Amendment. Lyndon Johnson had a fight with somebody in Dallas or Houston with a minister and he didn’t like him and they didn’t like each other. The minister thought he was terrible and I guess he didn’t like the minister. And he was a powerful president. ... But we worked hard at getting rid of the Johnson Amendment. It’s gone as far as you can say anything you want. ... Now, if you do say something bad about Trump, I will change my mind and I will have your tax exempt status immediately revoked.
On Christmas Day, in close coordination with the government of Nigeria, ... I ordered powerful airstrikes to decimate the ISIS terrorists ... I said, “No, do it on Christmas, so they understand it.” Remember, Christmas was — when I ran, in 2015, when I announced, I said, we’re going to bring back Christmas because the word Christmas was almost gone. And we did. People use Christmas anymore. We brought back the word Christmas. They didn’t want to use it, and we’re using it again. But I specifically told Pete — I said, “Hit them on Christmas Day. Not earlier and not later.” Right, Pete? And, man, did he hit them. So — and we hit them again recently. We hit them again pretty hard.
As the Bible tells us, “Blessed are the peacemakers.”
Selected quotes
But I want to thank the dozens of members of Congress here this morning, including a man of immense faith and immense talent. He’s a very talented man. He’s a small minority. It’s just really, because we go back and forth between minority and majority, and half the time we’re minority and we still win. How do we win with a minority? You know, we have a couple of people that I consider to be negative. But we’re one up, two up. Sometimes we’re three up. In fact, we’ll have two more victories very soon. We’ll be three up. And we consider that having a massive majority.
I don’t know how a person of faith can vote for a Democrat. I really don’t. And I know we have some here today, and I don’t know why they’re here, because they certainly don’t give us their vote.
They rigged the second election. I had to win it. Had to win it. I needed it for my own ego. I would have had a bad ego for the rest of the month. Now I really have a big ego, though. Beating these lunatics was incredible. Right? What a great feeling.
by the way, us and them [Venezuela], we have 68 percent of the world’s oil. Now, I know that doesn’t mean too much to people of great religion. I know you want to hear about — but, you know, we got to keep our country strong, and we’re doing really good.
[Biden] was our worst President. We had some bad ones. We had — Obama was a very bad — terrible divider of our country. He divided our — he was a divider. And believe it or not, we’re bringing the country together. You know what’s bringing it together? Tremendous success. We’re having tremendous success.
That’s why I was in Iowa last week with the farmers who were doing very well. We just handed them $12 billion out of tariff money because they were taken advantage of by foreign countries, various foreign countries.
And Europe is getting — you know, Europe is so bad with the windmills, they’re destroying their country with wind.
Where’s Tulsi? She took a lot of heat two days ago because she went in at Pam’s insistence. She went in and she looked at votes that want to be checked out from Georgia. They say, “why is she doing it?” Right, Pam? “Why is she doing it?” Because Pam wanted her to do it. And you know why? Because she’s smart.
I mean, I sleep on the plane. I don’t sleep on planes. I don’t like sleeping on planes, you know. I like looking out the window, watching for missiles and enemies, actually.
President Bukele of El Salvador. He has been so incredible.
He operates rather large prisons, like prisons that’s so large you can’t see from one side to the other unless you have perfect 20-20 eyesight with binoculars. That’s how long and big. And they do a job. They do a very humane job. But they’re very strong prisons.
This prayer breakfast comes at a special time for our country as we prepare to celebrate the 250th anniversary of American independence. And we’re also, very shortly, going to have the Olympics and the World Cup. And, you know, I got them. I was the one that got the Olympics, and I was the one that got. And I was so upset because I got them. I tried to move them up, but I couldn’t.
And at some point, I’m going to get right back onto the teleprompter, and you’re going to say, that was a wonderful speech. On that momentous day in 1776 — is that — this is so much easier. You know, it takes real talent to do the other. The other is much more talent, but that’s why we’re President, I think. We have very important words to say, and this is such an important group. And we have plenty of time to say it, because when it comes to religion, I have all the time. I’m one of the few that say we have all the time in the world.
And I may be wrong, but I don’t think so, because I’ve watched a lot and I study a lot. You have to have religion. You have to have it. You have to have faith. You have to have God. And thankfully, as we gather today, there are many signs that religion is coming back. And now it’s no longer signs. It’s just coming back. It’s coming back so strong. You know, your churches are filling up. You didn’t have that two years ago.
You know, Mike Johnson is a very religious person, and he does not hide it. He’ll say to me sometimes at lunch, “Sir, may we pray?” I say, “Excuse me? What happened to lunch?”
This, by the way, will be the last year that Democrats show up to this event, I tell you.
And it was the Johnson Amendment. Lyndon Johnson had a fight with somebody in Dallas or Houston with a minister and he didn’t like him and they didn’t like each other. The minister thought he was terrible and I guess he didn’t like the minister. And he was a powerful president. ... But we worked hard at getting rid of the Johnson Amendment. It’s gone as far as you can say anything you want. ... Now, if you do say something bad about Trump, I will change my mind and I will have your tax exempt status immediately revoked.
On Christmas Day, in close coordination with the government of Nigeria, ... I ordered powerful airstrikes to decimate the ISIS terrorists ... I said, “No, do it on Christmas, so they understand it.” Remember, Christmas was — when I ran, in 2015, when I announced, I said, we’re going to bring back Christmas because the word Christmas was almost gone. And we did. People use Christmas anymore. We brought back the word Christmas. They didn’t want to use it, and we’re using it again. But I specifically told Pete — I said, “Hit them on Christmas Day. Not earlier and not later.” Right, Pete? And, man, did he hit them. So — and we hit them again recently. We hit them again pretty hard.
As the Bible tells us, “Blessed are the peacemakers.”
