Trump pledges to turn away those who don’t like ‘our religion’

Donald Trump is not understood to be a particularly religious person. When he launched his candidacy for the 2016 Republican nomination, he would insist that the Bible was his favorite book (edging out “The Art of the Deal”), although he was unable to identify a favorite passage or, at times, demonstrate much familiarity with it. As president, he rarely went to church — one exception being when, on June 1, 2020, he strode across a newly cleared Lafayette Square to pose outside St. John’s Episcopal Church holding a Bible.