Trump to join public Bible reading as Pope Leo clash simmers

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

04/18/26 11:41 AM ET


President Trump on Friday announced that he will attend a marathon reading of the Bible amid his feud with Pope Leo XIV. The group Christians Engaged listed Trump one of many participants in the “America Reads the Bible” event, which starts Saturday evening and runs for a week.

The president said in a statement that he applauds “every citizen participating in the America Reads the Bible initiative. Together, we will honor Holy Scripture, renew our faith, usher in a historic resurgence of religion on American shores, and rededicate the United States as one Nation under God.” Event organizers told The New York Times that Trump recorded his segment of the reading from the Oval Office. The president will read from the Old Testament book of 2 Chronicles.

The outlet added that this passage is interpreted by Trump’s Christian supporters as a call to national repentance and subsequent blessing. Several past and present Trump administration officials will also participate in the reading, who make up the roughly 500 readers listed on the event’s website.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Dr. Ben Carson, Veteran Affairs Secretary Doug Collins, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R), U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo are on the list. Trump allies such as House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and the Rev. Franklin Graham are also scheduled to participate.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5837716-trump-bible-reading-pope-leo-feud-ai-jesus/

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Sinners all. Does this mean they will restore USAID or all those programs cut that helped to feed and care for the health of this nation? Are people like Keystone Kash or Tulsi included?

If not, it's all just " (meaningless) words on a page" to them.

[Ocelot II]

1. C'mon, God, you know what to do. They'll all be in one place so the efficient use of lightning will be possible...

[TexasBushwhacker]

7. He's overdue for a smiting!

[Dulcinea]

33. Maybe he'll burst into flames.

[PittBlue]

2. What an effing joke.

Imagine that blood thirsty monster reading the Bible.

[piddyprints]

3. Well, in all fairness,

there's plenty of blood thirsty shit in the Bible.

[PittBlue]

6. True...

I’m just so sick of all this Bible crap all of the time.

[travelingthrulife]

55. He'll probably have an erection if they read about babies heads being bashed against walls.

[CTyankee]

56. I hope we don't see that....

[pazzyanne]

22. I hope he holds the right side up. nt

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Trump to read "Song of Solomon" . . . . . .

[BumRushDaShow]

5. That'll get him all hot

[seabiscuit5920]

13. Salacious part of the bible!

King Solomon had 500+ concubines! There is a very lustful chapter on his indecent desires for one of them. They want this book in school libraries????

[ultralite001]

8. From the King Jimmy version...

JOHN 11:35

"Jesus wept."

Krasnov can probably handle that much scripture...

[Irish_Dem]

9. God should send some lightning bolts.

[sop]

27. Like this...

[caraher]

10. Hegseth will pick the verses Trump reads

Which Tarantino film will they be from?

[delisen]

11. I think Netanyahu told Trump he is the Messiah

Trump is so easily flattered and manipulated.

I wonder what Paula White has told him. perhaps that that only he can open the Gates of Hormuz and deliver unto the world the precious oil, so that the peoples of the world will be saved from annihilation and, anointed with the oil they will praise your name, and the world’ s riches will flow to you and to your faithful servants through the miracle of insider trading.

[Ocelot II]

12. Trump would burst into flames if he had to read Matthew 25:31-46.

[SamKnause]

14. Gathering of traitors and blasphemers (if you believe, I don't).

They hate this country and everything it stands for.

Their religion, their book, and their beliefs are sick and twisted.

Fuck fascists !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fuck Christian theocracy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[oasis]

15. Trump's biggest challenge will be to stay awake.

[EarthFirst]

16. We all know he cannot stay on script...

…so it will be quite interesting to see where this goes.

[Grokenstein]

32. He won't actually read anything aloud from the Bible, but if we're lucky...

he'll drop his marble and tell the crowd he personally wrote it.

[Wonder Why]

57. windmills and getting electrocuted by an EBoat? How God called him "Sir"?

[travelingthrulife]

17. None of these phony christians has a clue what their faith demands.

[ToxMarz]

18. Did he give up on Two Corinthians

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[blue blues]

19. Because of course you know he has to show he's better at it than the Pope

I can wait for it .... in the middle of verse he starts a rant about Biden or Obama
maybe a sir story

[erronis]

20. Just ask him to recite any passage from memory - no reading text. The result will be hilarious.

[Attilatheblond]

40. Oh, let him read it. Or try. That'd be pretty funny

Especially when he stops and asks "Who the hell put all these red words in here?"

[PuraVidaDreamin]

21. He's not sleeping too well. Great chance to take a long nap.

[paleotn]

23. The smite button!!!

Use the goddamn smite button!!!!

[Smilo]

24. Irony?

The "America Reads the Bible" marathon kicked off TODAY and Trump is participating with a special reading from the Oval Office this week. Out of the entire Bible — 66 books, 1,189 chapters, 31,000 verses — the organizers assigned Donald Trump 2 Chronicles 7:14.
A verse about humbling yourself. Turning from your wicked ways. Seeking forgiveness from God so He will "heal their land."
A repentance verse. For Trump.
And before you think this is just a coincidence — the event organizer went on camera and literally said: "It's a scripture about repentance. None of us are perfect." They knew exactly what they were doing.

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[radical noodle]

35. trump has no reading comprehension

He won't understand a word of it. It would make for a great comedy skit, though.

[MadameButterfly]

46. OMG. Will he even read it?

This will be worse than a corner store. Can you imagine "Who put this in there?" Or he might argue with it or call it weak.
Worse, he'll pretend he practices what he is preaching.

[Keepthesoulalive]

25. Please god

Let the Bible catch fire and light up his soul as well as the rest of his mortal body.

[not fooled]

26. If the Bible doesn't burst into flame

there is no god.

[underpants]

28. 😳🙄😂

[mahina]

30. Whoa boy. For the first time in my life, I had to work from

Spitting my tea out.

Rolling! DUzy awards committee: YO! Look up!

[mahina]

29. Please tell me he is reading One Corinthian. Lord,

is the past tense “smited” or “smote?”

[mobeau69]

31. May the dark and filthy one read Matthew 6:5

And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.

[KPN]

34. Has he asked who are the 2 Chronicles yet?

[BidenRocks]

42. Simon and Schuster

[Seinan Sensei]

36. Wondering - will they be reading the Bible at the corner church?

You know. The one across from the corner store.

[cstanleytech]

37. Every Bible within 100 feet of Trump might just burst into flames.

[3Hotdogs]

38. The thing of it, I believe he doesn't know how to read. Remember when he tried to read the Constitution and got

pissed that it had big words innit/

[Karasu]

39. Not that many Americans do anymore. Trump least of all.

[3Hotdogs]

45. No. Not a joke. He REALLY can't read. Dyslexia or something. But he has trouble reading.

[MadameButterfly]

48. Is it possible that dyslexia or something like it

is at the root of feelings of inadequacy that spawned this monster?

[Karasu]

60. I think I heard something about that being the case before.

[orleans]

41. hysterical. more excerpts from pulp fiction

and now he can sell more bibles!

[bmichaelh]

43. Not Interested

If you wanted to listen to the Bible, there are some recordings by some great Shakespearean actors: Laurence Olivier, David Suchet and James Earl Jones.

I can not listen to Trump say 3 words together; what terrible tone.

BTW, there is a scene in Olivier's film production of Richard III when he is displaying religious devotion and is accompanied by two clerics as he plots to steal the crown from his nephew.

[MadameButterfly]

49. I'm torn between repulsed and fascinated

In the end I won't miss it though I'm sure I should.

[lonely bird]

44. Christians Engaged and Trump

Can both fuck off.

Reading the Bible doesn’t renew, restore, rededicate, resurge or honor anything.

Btw, in terms of keeping tabs on the religionists look into oneofhisfootmen.org. They are flatout anti-American despite their claims. One of their slogans is restore America to righteousness. Yeah, no.

[MadameButterfly]

50. This is all they can think of to do

to make up for murdering thousand at home and abroad and picking a fight with the Pope. They are incapable of doing anything real.
They just keep thinking up fig leaves.

[Maeve]

47. Here's a couple of verses for him ( I think Twain first put them together)

Matthew 27:5 and the second part of Luke 10:37
So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.

The expert in the law replied, “The one who had mercy on him.” Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.”

[Javaman]

51. the orange pedo's reading of genesis.

"god said, let their be trump!"

[Whip-poor-will]

52. Baal 2.0

Read up Iran burns statues of Baal

So between trump and epstein ,followers of Baal, one of them is going to the mat with God again ?

[azureblue]

53. what they will refuse to read from the Bible

Matthew 25: 31 - 46, where Jesus himself says to help the poor, the elderly, the sick, the immigrant, and, if you don't you will go to hell..
In fact, I doubt they will read a single word of what Jesus taught..

[travelingthrulife]

54. This ought to be a hoot!

Will he do this with the infamous embezzler and tongues babbler Paula White?

[lonely bird]

59. Not to mention

She is on her second marriage.

[jmowreader]

58. Everyone needs to read 2 Chronicles

Paraphrasing here: Solomon took over David’s throne and led his people well. Eventually God spoke to him and asked him what he wanted from God. Solomon just said he wanted knowledge and wisdom to make him a better king.

God told him that because he only asked for those things, and not for treasure or to have all his enemies killed, he’d get what he asked for and God would also make him rich.

Trump probably thinks this applies to him. If reading this with a straight face doesn’t get him smited instantly and his properties and treasure miracled out of existence, the debate over whether there’s a god will have been answered for all time.

[eppur_se_muova]

61. For a preview, watch the first two minutes of this video ...

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3djb7n