Trump Declares – ‘US Needs MORE Religion’

President Donald Trump remarked that the United States is “missing a lot of religion” during an interview with podcaster Lex Fridman, which aired on Tuesday.

Fridman asked Trump, “One of the tragic things about life is that it ends. How often do you think about your death? Are you afraid of it?” during their discussion.

“I have a friend who’s very, very successful, and he’s in his 80s, mid 80s, and he asked me the exact same question. I said, I turned it around. I said, ‘Well, what about you?’ He said, ‘I think about it every minute of every day,’” Trump said of his friend, ultimately explaining that people of faith have an easier time dealing with that thought. “And then a week later, he called me to tell me something. And he starts off the conversation by going, tick, tock, tick. This is just dark. It’s a dark person, you know, in a sense, but it is what it is,” Trump said. “I mean, you know, if you’re religious, you have, I think, a better feeling towards supposed to go to heaven, ideally, not hell,” he said before explaining that he believes the U.S. lacks the presence of religion like it used to have. “I think our country’s missing a lot of religion. I think it really was a much better place with religion. It. It was some … it was almost a guide, you know, to a certain extent. You want to be good to people. Without religion, there’s no real, there are no guard rails. I’d love to see us get back to religion, more religion in this country.”

President Trump: "I think our country's missing a lot of religion. I think it was a much better place with religion. It was almost a guide… you want to be good to people. Without religion, there are no guardrails. I'd love to see us get back to more religion in this country." pic.twitter.com/Ns6iYuhdqN

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 3, 2024

The former president has spoken about God more openly and frequently following his near-death experience at the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. He has credited “God alone” for preventing what he described as the “unthinkable.”

“Our Secret Service sniper, from a much greater distance and with only one bullet used, took the assassin’s life,” he said during his speech at the Republican National Convention, adding, “I’m not supposed to be here tonight.”