Breaking News from Pod Save America - Trump Rambles Through Awkward Speech at Prayer Breakfast

Episode Date: February 5, 2026

Trump’s National Prayer Breakfast speech took a strange turn, with rambling remarks that left the audience visibly uneasy. Tommy Vietor and Dan Pfeiffer unpack all the awkward moments. CHECK OUT OUR SPONSOR: ZBIOTICS - http://zbiotics.com/CROOKEDNEWS CODE: CROOKEDNEWS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Earlier today, President Trump addressed the national prayer breakfast, and he summoned the faithful in near biblical tones, Dan, calling on Americans to return to God, reclaim the altar of public life, and to seek national redemption. Just kidding, he ranted like a narcissistic asshole. Let's watch. They rigged the second election. I had to win it.

I had to win it. I needed it for my own ego. I would have had a bad ego for the rest of them out. Now I really have a big ego. They're beating these lunatic. was incredible right? What a great feeling. What a great feeling, Dan. Feels good, right? You feeling good? I feel spiritual, prayerful. I feel closer to God from hearing that. I really do. True. It's the power of prayer, as Obama used to say. Like, we're on year like 4,000 of watching him

go to this prayer breakfast and just like spew ranting nonsense. Do you think the faith leaders in that room are ever like, like, what the hell is happening here? This is nuts? It seems like no, based on everything that's been through. And I do feel like every year, there's some part of Trump's subconscious that uses this event to make the right-wing evangelical leaders who have endorsed the profane, violent,

thrice-married, notorious CAD with no real, you know, relationship to the church or the Bible or anything else, make them feel like idiots for doing so, right? Like he rubs it and there's nothing trouble likes to do that rub it in people's face that they are forced to support. him and that's what's happening here. What did you say his favorite Bible verse was it was like

two Corinthians or something like that? Yeah, too, I think two. What a 2017 throwback. Thank you. Let's do a cofefe reference later. Yeah, I think that was during a Mark Halpern interview. All right, here is another one of Mr. Trump's impassioned calls for public piety. Let's watch. I don't know how a person of faith can vote for a Democrat. I really don't. And I know we have some here today. And I don't know why they're here because they certainly don't give us their vote. I certainly know that we're not going to be convincing them to vote for a little thing called voter ID. It polls at 97%. They say, that's not allowed. And everyone's trying to figure it out. And they do something to win. You know what it is? They cheat.

So that clip is troubling because, I mean, you think? He's just like, he's overtly elevating political partisanship over prayer or religion or faith, right? Like that is supposed to be a room where people from all parties, predominantly Republicans, but people of all parties can come together and worship God. And he's like, I don't know why the fuck you guys are here. You know, you're not a Republican. So it doesn't matter. It's definitely true that the Republican Party has been more closely associated with evangelical Christians over the past many, many decades here.

But the idea that there are. aren't many, many faith leaders who are progressive in their personal views, Democrats who go to church. Think of all, you know, Latino, Catholic Latinos, Black voters in the Baptist Church. Reverend Warnock. Episcopalians, Lutherans, Reverend Warnock. Like, across the board in this idea that it is, you cannot be religious and a Democrat. You cannot believe in God and be a Democrat is just so patently offensive. I mean, we're so numb to this sort of fake.

Like even the people in the room were like awkwardly laughing at that to try because it's so uncomfortable because it's so patently false and so offensive. Yeah, it really is. I mean, there was a point in time where John F. Kennedy was, you know, people questioned whether he could be president because they wondered if you would have his allegiance to the Pope because he was a Catholic. Yes. I'm not even speaking about all of the faithful Jews and Muslims and Buddhists and everyone else in

this country, some of whom are Democrats, some of whom are Republicans. That is beyond the point of what he's saying. And it is, it truly is historically offensive. It is the sort of thing, I know we've been saying this forever, usually on this day, every year since 2017, is that these are the kind of things that if any other person said under any other context, it would be a, cause an outroar of epic proportions. Yeah. Well, as long as Trump can get them tax cuts and more restrictions on when and where women are

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slash crooked news and use the code crooked news at checkout for 15% off. Dan, I just wanted to play one difference, equally stirring address to a prayer breakfast for you. And then just get you to rank this one in terms of the reaction to this clip versus what President Trump said. Let's watch. I woke up this morning at 7. I was getting picked up at 745. Patrick, my fiance, tried to pull me by my waist over this morning in bed. And I was like, no, baby, we don't got time for that this morning.

I got to get to the prayer breakfast. and I got to be on time and a little TMI. But he can wait. He's got, we got, I'll see him later tonight. So that was South Carolina, Congresswoman Nancy Mace. Dan, do you think it's more or less weird talking about how you didn't bang your fiance that morning at the prayer breakfast than saying, you know, ranting about Democrats? They are engaged or they're married?

Well, that was a couple years ago. So I don't know what they are now. Okay, okay. Okay. Yeah, that was. deeply uncomfortable, like most times Nancy May speaks in public are very strange, I'd say, quite strange. Yeah.

But good for them. I'm happy. They're happy. Hey, how about it, Nancy? There was a big article, and I think New York Magazine, I believe, this week that basically argues Nancy Mace is losing it or has lost it, or at least that's what her staff, who are all quoted in the article says, that talks about how she makes her staff clean her apartments, including ones.

I think she rents out on Airbnb. There's a staffer in there who said that Nancy Mace made them do booze runs at 2 a.m. Can you imagine you're, Dan, you're working for like Tom Dashel or Evan By. You got to call it 2 a.m. being like, Bring me a bottle of tequila.

It feels unheard of. But then she went on TV and said she has a condition which doesn't allow her to drink, which then allow, which everyone to put out photos of her drinking, photos of videos of her drinking. That she tweeted out usually. Yes. Yes.

This is not archival footage from the episode. Seen files. This was, she tweeted out. And then the other thing in that article that is quite interesting, I guess, is that she's very concerned about how she ranks in the question of who the hottest member of Congress is. Yes. And she's constantly instructing her staff to upvote her on Reddit when this question

comes up so that she will be viewed as the hottest member of Congress. Yeah, which, I mean, okay, that's, I feels like, you know, you're, you're demanding to be voted, you know, best player on the J. basketball team. It's not like a, it's not a particularly attractive body of people. You know what I mean? Like, no offense, Bernie Sanders, but like, you know, it's not. Did you compete to be one of the hills most beautiful people in your time in Washington? No. Was that just Favro? Yeah. I don't think, I don't think you and I were sniffing that political I never got that call. Yeah, no, too, too hot. Finally, Dan, we have not talked about our friend

Elon Musk in a while. Speaking of the Epstein files, I did just want to check. I did just want to check. in on how kind of like the in-house Trump genius is doing these days to see what he's musing about when it comes to politics. This is a clip from Elon on Joe Rogan's show. Let's watch. Donnie is a charismatic swindler. I mean, he got to hand it to him like he can lie to stage, but he has just been a swindler his entire life. What else has he done that makes him a swindler? Well, I guess if you say what, I mean, if you say to any audience, whatever that audience wants to hear, instead of what, instead of having a consistent message, I would say that that is a swindly thing to do. And, yeah, yeah. But he is charismatic.

hard to argue with that. I mean, talk about someone who spent so much time in their safe space that the just melts down and just like basically turns into a puddle of incoherence at a follow-up question, not a hard follow-up question, just a point of clarification. Yeah. What do you mean by Swindler? Yeah. It's like it's a person who I went to dictionary.com as that clip played. It's a person who cheats or defrauds others in place you needed the lexical definition out there. Anyone like at what point has Zaron Mandani cheated on anything or defrauded anyone? He won an election. He just took office.

What the fuck are you talking about, Elon? You just think you don't like him. It is, I mean, this is the, I mean, this is everyone speaking from the Trump playbook, which is that everyone who is not on our side is a crook. They must be corrupt in some way, shape, or form. So you just started asserting people are swindlers without any reason to do it. And in most cases, you will get to say that in right-wing media spaces. And no one will ever ask you a follow-up question.

And I guess to Joe Rogan's credit, he just said, what do you mean? And then Elon melted down. Yeah. Yeah, I guess that counts for like a tough follow-up from Mr. Rogan there when it comes to political questions. You know, I'm really glad that Elon is like mostly out of public life these days. I really like just don't miss seeing that man or having to listen to him talk about stuff. Just like the absolutely like archetypical example of the obnoxious like business guy, Silicon Valley guy who thinks, you know, called a genius by everyone around him.

It is when it comes to math and science and rockets and engineering, but thinks that applies to every other space in the world and just rants about it at all times. It's just like exhausting. Yeah. Good riddance. Well, you know, we all look forward to Elon's address at the National Prayer Breakfast next year. I imagine it'll go very well. Thank you for watching this episode of POTS of America here on YouTube.

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