周四，唐纳德·特朗普总统在全国祈祷早餐会上发表讲话时，拿众议院议长迈克·约翰逊的宗教虔诚开了个玩笑，他描述约翰逊如何在饭前——甚至午餐时——都要求祈祷。
第74届两党年度活动在华盛顿举行，国会议员、宗教领袖和政要出席了此次活动。
“议长先生，您知道吗，迈克·约翰逊是个非常虔诚的人，他从不隐瞒这一点，”特朗普说，“有时他会在午餐时对我说，‘先生，我们可以祈祷吗？’我说，‘不好意思，我们在椭圆形办公室吃午餐呢。’但这对我来说没问题。不过，他确实非常虔诚，而且很受欢迎，工作干得不可思议。”
特朗普在开玩笑后转而称赞约翰逊，他说：“我认为上帝在眷顾你。上帝在保佑他。”
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特朗普接着说：“我不知道这对我意味着什么，但我还是愿意和他待在一起，因为我觉得自己受到了一点保护。”
据特朗普在讲话中称，这些言论是他利用年度集会来强调他所说的对公共生活中宗教的重新拥抱。
“2025年，美国售出的《圣经》数量比过去100年中的任何时候都要多，”特朗普说。他还声称，在过去一年里，“年轻美国人去教堂的比例几乎是四年前的两倍。”
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特朗普还宣布了今年晚些时候在国家广场举行全国祈祷集会的计划。
“我很高兴地宣布，2026年5月17日，我们将邀请来自全国各地的美国人来到我们的国家广场，一起祈祷、感恩并回归信仰，”特朗普说，“我们将重新奉献美国，让它成为一个‘在上帝之下’的国家。”
约翰逊是路易斯安那州的共和党人，也是一位福音派基督徒，自成为议长以来，他经常公开谈论信仰在个人生活和领导工作中的作用。
“今天，特朗普总统将通过祈祷的力量团结我们的国家，出席第74届全国祈祷早餐会，”白宫发言人泰勒·罗杰斯在活动前夕告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
“特朗普总统在保护我们‘上帝赋予的权利’方面取得了前所未有的进展，并兑现了他扭转乔·拜登分裂性政策的承诺——那些政策将联邦政府武器化，以对抗信仰男女。特朗普总统为宗教自由取得了重大胜利——从捍卫无辜生命到恢复生物真理，再到保护父母的基本权利。”
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President Donald Trump joked about House Speaker Mike Johnson’s religious devotion during remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, recounting how Johnson asks to pray before meals, even during lunch, as Trump described it.
The 74th annual bipartisan event was held in Washington and attended by lawmakers, faith leaders and dignitaries.
“Did you know that, Mr. Speaker, you know, Mike Johnson’s a very religious person, that he does not hide it?” Trump said. “He’ll say to me sometimes at lunch, ‘Sir, may we pray?’ I say, ‘Excuse me, we’re having lunch in the Oval.’ It’s okay with me. But, he’s a very religious person and he is popular, and he’s doing an unbelievable job.”
Trump followed the joke with praise for Johnson, saying, “I think God is watching over you. God is watching over him.”
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“I don’t know about me,” Trump added, before continuing: “So I hang around with him because I feel I’m protected a little bit.”
The comments came as Trump used the annual gathering, according to his remarks, to emphasize what he described as a renewed embrace of religion in public life.
“In 2025, more copies of the Holy Bible were sold in the United States than at any time in the last 100 years,” Trump said. He also claimed that, in the last year, “young Americans attended church at nearly twice the rate as they did four years ago.”
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Trump also announced plans for a national prayer gathering on the National Mall later this year.
“I’m pleased to announce that on May 17th, 2026, that we’re inviting Americans from all across the country to come together on our National Mall, to pray, to give thanks, and to return,” Trump said. “We’re going to rededicate America as one nation under God.”
Johnson, a Louisiana Republican and evangelical Christian, has frequently spoken publicly about the role of faith in his personal life and leadership since becoming speaker.
“Today, President Trump will unite our country through the power of prayer at the 74th National Prayer Breakfast,” White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers told Fox News Digital leading up to the event.
“President Trump has made unprecedented strides to protect our God-given rights and has delivered on his promise to reverse Joe Biden’s divisive policies that weaponized the federal government against men and women of faith. President Trump has secured major victories for religious freedom – from defending innocent life to restoring biological truth and protecting parents’ fundamental rights.”
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The office of House Speaker Mike Johnson and the White House did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Fox News Digital’s Emma Colton contributed to this report.
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