After surviving his impeachment trial, President Trump, launched an attack on US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, which both Trump and Pelosi attended.
Trump made implicit references to Nancy Pelosi and Mitt Romney (the only Republican Senator who voted against Trump) as people who use their faith as an excuse to do wrong’
He said “I don’t like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong nor do I like people who say, ‘I pray for you,’ when they know that’s not so. So many people have been hurt and we can’t let that go on. We have allies, we have enemies, sometimes the allies are enemies but we just don’t know it. But we’re changing all that”.
Later Thursday after the breakfast, Pelosi adressed Trump’s remark about faith as justification for doing something wrong “completely inappropriate” and “particularly without class.”, saying the president’s remarks at a faith gathering was completely unwarranted.
She said “This morning the President said when people use faith as an excuse to do … bad things … was just so completely inappropriate, especially at a prayer breakfast. I don’t know what the President understands about prayer or people who do pray, but we do pray for the United States of America,” she said. “I pray hard for him because he’s so off the track of the Constitution, our values, our country. He really needs our prayers, so he can say whatever he wants … but I do pray for him and I do so sincerely and without anguish. To go into the stock market and raising up (the newspaper) and mischaracterizing other peoples’ motivation, he’s talking about things he knows little about — faith and prayer”.