President Trump: ‘To have a great nation, you have to have religion’
The president, on Monday, visited the Museum of the Bible, where he personally delivered the Trump family Bible for display and talked about the importance of faith in America
by Summer Lane | September 8, 2025
President Donald Trump on Monday delivered remarks to the White House Religious Liberty Commission at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., where he highlighted the integral role that faith and religion have had on America’s founding and continued prosperity.
“America was founded on faith,” the president said. “…When faith gets weaker, our country seems to get weaker.”
President Trump slammed Virginia Democrat Senator Tim Kaine for recent comments slamming America’s faith-filled founding. The senator remarked last week that he found these roots “extremely troubling.”
The president slammed Kaine for his “terrible words” and said the senator from Virginia should be “ashamed of himself for many things.”
President Trump commented, “Under the Trump administration, we’re defending our rights, [and] restoring our identity as a nation under God – we are ONE nation under God, and we always will be.”
“We have to bring back religion in America,” he said. “…To have a great nation, you have to have religion – I believe that so strongly.”
And, in paying homage to the commission’s venue for the day, the president elevated the importance of the Christian Bible.
“For thousands of years, the Bible has shaped civilization, ethics, art, and literature, and it’s brought hope, healing, and transformation to untold millions and millions of people,” he said.
He also announced that he brought and “personally delivered the Trump family Bible” that was used in both his inaugurations to be displayed at the museum. The president said this Bible was gifted to him by his mother. “I remember the time she gave it to me,” he remarked.
During his speech, President Trump focused heavily on protecting religious freedom in public school classrooms.
President Trump spoke strongly about the importance of faith in his later remarks, pointing out that, at one time, “the Bible was found in every classroom in the nation, yet in many schools today, students are indoctrinated with anti-religious propaganda.”
On that note, he announced that the Department of Education will soon issue new guidance protecting the right to prayer in schools nationwide.
President Trump even invited a 12-year-old boy onstage to speak about First Amendment rights. This young man and his family pushed back on a public school for promoting gender-driven ideology in the classroom.
“I’ve been a Christian my whole life,” the boy said. “And Jesus means everything to me…after my family spoke up, the school treated us badly and kids started bullying me and my brother because of our faith…I hope no other family has to go through what mine did.”
