President Trump attended this year’s National Prayer Breakfast, where he touted faith while also attacking his political opponents. The President touted his administration’s promotion of faith life, saying that “religion is coming back.” He claimed his presidency had done more for faith than other modern-day presidents and took some shots at his predecessors. He noted President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline and accused President Obama of being divisive.

“Certainly modern-day — certainly modern-day presidents, they didn’t — they bailed out on you. They bailed out,” he said. “They want to be neutral. They want to be neutral or against. You know, the Democrats are against. 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.” The President also noted the persecution of Christians worldwide. “We knocked the hell out of [ISIS] the other day in Nigeria because they were killing Christians,” he said. “You know about that. They were killing Christians. You can’t do that. When Christians come under attack, they know they’re going to be attacked violently and viciously by President Trump. I know it’s not a nice thing to say, but that’s the way it is.”

The President also touched on previous comments where he appeared to doubt that he was Heaven-bound, calling the comments a joke. “I was being funny; I was trying to be. You know, you can’t be sarcastic with them because they write your words and they don’t — the people who are reading the words are much different than that,” he said. “The New York Times did a front-page story that Donald Trump is questioning his life and the meaning of his life. No, I was just having fun,” he said, saying that there might be a chance that he could still get in.

Democrats weren’t the only ones to feel the President’s wrath, with President Trump taking jabs at Republicans Rand Paul, Thomas Massie, and Chip Roy. All three have held up the President’s agenda during his second term, stating they are trying to get the president to follow through on promises of lower government spending and avoiding foreign conflicts. The President’s uneven tone earned criticism from his usual critics, who described the speech as “rambling.” The Guardian described it as the “US right’s devil’s pact.” Even Eric Metaxas, a supporter of the President, criticized the speech. “Didn’t anyone on the President’s team advise him that the National Prayer Breakfast is a prayer breakfast?” he wrote on X. “Didn’t someone write a speech for him? What’s going on? I think they need to bring me in to help. It’s that bad. I love my country and will serve if called.”