The conservative Evangelicals’ favorite president yesterday:
Here’s God’s protector in 2016:
Trump was asked numerous times during the early part of the campaign by earnest religious questioners if he had ever asked God for forgiveness. He gave this cavalier answer:
I am not sure I have. I just go on and try to do a better job from there. I don’t think so. . . . When I drink my little wine — which is about the only wine I drink — and have my little cracker, I guess that is a form of asking for forgiveness, and I do that as often as possible because I feel cleansed.
Anderson Cooper followed up on that comment and asked him to clarify. This is what he said:
Why do I have to repent or ask for forgiveness, if I am not making mistakes? I work hard, I’m an honorable person.
Jimmy Fallon asked Trump about this again and he said, “I fully think apologizing is a great thing, but you have to be wrong. . . . I will absolutely apologize sometime in the distant future if I’m ever wrong.”