Christian nationalism in the State of the Union? Trump's speech unpacked
USA TODAY
President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address included a continued push to boost the presence of religion in American public life.
President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address included a continued push to boost the presence of religion in American public life.
Trump is far from the first president to invoke God in the annual speech.
Former President George W. Bush, for example, said in 2003 that the “liberty we prize is not America’s gift to the world, it is God’s gift to humanity.” Former President Joe Biden said in 2023 that "all of us, every one of us, is created equal in the image of God."
Presidents across the political aisle have frequently closed their speeches with variations of “God bless America.” But to some religious studies experts and advocates of the separation of church and state, the language used in Trump's Feb. 24 speech and his administration more broadly is different.
He touted what he described as a “tremendous renewal in religion, faith, Christianity and belief in God” in the United States as of late.
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