President Trump tweeted “Happy Sunday! We want GOD!“ as part of a string of religious-themed tweets Sunday morning on the eve of the Republican National Convention.
Trump’s tweet contained a video of him speaking at Krasinski Square in Warsaw, in 2017. In those remarks, Trump paid tribute to the triumph over Soviet communism in Poland at the end of the Cold War decades earlier — and noted how that helped bring religion back into public life.
On Sunday, the president also reiterated his contention that the words “under God” had been removed from the Pledge of Allegiance when recited at the Democratic National Convention. He and others have contended that Democrats were attempting to exclude religion and, by extension, religious people from their 2020 event.
However, the video included with one of Trump’s tweets on the subject included footage not from the principal parts of the Democratic National Convention but from a caucus and council meeting related to the DNC. The committee was the Muslim Delegates & Allies Assembly.
The president tweeted with that video: “Now they’re trying to deny this, but they can’t!“
The phrase “under God” was added to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954 at the suggestion of President Dwight Eisenhower, who saw it as a way to counter the communist threat at the height of the Cold War.
After the Sunday morning tweets, the president headed to the Trump National Golf Club in Potomac Falls, Va., to play golf.
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