President Trump Participates in Easter Blessing for Americans from Oval Office on Good Friday

Joel Kontinen


In an Oval Office address Friday, President Donald Trump called on Americans to pray for God to “heal our nation,” before asking a clergy member to offer an Easter blessing.

“On this Good Friday, Christians from all around the world remember the suffering and death upon the cross of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,” Trump began his remarks.

“At Easter Sunday, we will celebrate his glorious resurrection,” he continued.

“At this holy time, our nation is engaged in a battle like never before with the invisible enemy,” the president said in reference to the coronavirus outbreak.

Trump then said he had high regard for the doctors, nurses and first responders who had taken issue against COVID-19. He also thanked the Vice President MIKE and his wife Karen and said he was feeling their support in prayer.

"He next invited Bishop Harry Jackson from Hope Christian Fellowship in Beltsville, Maryland, near Washington, D.C., to offer an Easter blessing.

The clergyman referenced the Passover story in the Bible’s book of Exodus, when a plague went through the land of Egypt, but did not come into the Jewish homes marked with lamb’s blood on their doorposts and lintels.

“Lord, let the death angel pass over,” Jackson prayed.

“Let there be a mitigation of this plague, this disease. Let medical science come forth. Lord, let us come out with a thriving economy.”

Trump's Easter sermon is quite unlike Joe Biden's messy Declaration of independence think that is a clear antithesis to Trump's speech.

Source:

DeSoto, Randy. 2020. President Trump Participates in Easter Blessing for Americans from Oval Office on Good Friday Western Journal 10 April.