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President donald trump will attend the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday for his sixth appearance at the bipartisan gathering focused on faith and prayer for the nation.
“Today, President Trump will unite our country through the power of prayer at the 74th National Prayer Breakfast,” White House officials Taylor Rogers told Fox News Digital. “President Trump has made unprecedented strides to protect our God-given rights and delivered on his promise to reverse Joe Biden’s divisive policies that weaponized the federal government against men and women of faith. President Trump has won important victories for religious freedom, from defending innocent lives to restoring biological truth to protecting fundamental parental rights.”
Trump is expected to speak at 8:30 a.m. at the Washington Hilton at the event that typically draws hundreds of lawmakers, business leaders, state officials and foreign dignitaries.
This year, Fox News Digital has learned that notable attendees include Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Ms. Hegseth, Attorney General Pam Bondi and Mr. John Wakefield, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum and Ms. Burgum, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins and Ms. Collins, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Jamieson Greer and Ms. Greer, and the President of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson.
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President Donald Trump speaks during the National Prayer Breakfast at the United States Capitol in Washington, DC, February 6, 2025. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)
The President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, and Mrs. Denise Nyakero Tshisekedi are among the foreign leaders who will attend the breakfast.
Musicians Michael W. Smith and Jelly Roll will also attend, Fox News Digital learned.
Trump first attended as president in 2017 and returned last year, using his remarks to promise action against what he called anti-Christian bias linked to the Biden administration.
“While I’m in the White House, we will protect Christians in our schools, in our military, in our government, in our workplaces, hospitals and in our public squares, and we will reunite our country as one nation under God, with liberty and justice for all,” Trump said during last year’s event.
Nearly a year ago, Trump launched the White House Office of Faith through Executive Order, tasking it with leading the executive branch’s outreach to religious groups, community organizations and houses of worship. In honor of its one-year anniversary and prayer breakfast, Fox News Digital has learned that the office launched a campaign showcasing “150 reasons why President Trump is the most pro-faith, pro-life, pro-religious freedom president in American history.”
“He protected religious freedom and affirmed faith in America. He has fought against anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and other forms of anti-religious prejudice, while ending the use of government as a weapon against all people of faith. He has expanded school choice, protected parental rights, restored biological truth, strengthened families, ended illegal and divisive DEI policies, stopped taxpayer funding for abortion, restored freedom of speech and stood by Israel,” the Faith Office said of Trump.
Vendors set up a table with “Make America Pray Again” hats during the 2024 NRB International Christian Media Convention Presidential Forum in Nashville, Tennessee, on February 22, 2024. (Brett Carlsen/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The National Prayer Breakfast was established in 1953 when President Dwight D. Eisenhower accepted an invitation to join members of Congress in what was then an early version of the event. The morning event is based on speeches and prayers, and historically features remarks by the president and other guest speakers.
Trump’s presence at the annual event comes as he increasingly talks about his faith and his relationship with God following the assassination attempt against him in July 2024 that left him with a head injury when a gunman opened fire at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.
“There was blood running everywhere, and yet in some ways I felt very safe, because I had God on my side,” Trump said from the stage of the Republican National Convention just days after the attempt on his life. “The surprising thing is that before the shot, if he had not moved his head at the last moment, the murderer’s bullet would have hit its target perfectly and he would not be with you tonight.”
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President Donald Trump has elevated faith as a governing issue in his second term, including signing executive orders to create a White House Office of Faith and issuing a proclamation urging Americans to renew their commitment to the country’s “Nation under God” identity.
President Donald Trump is expected to address the National Prayer Breakfast on February 5, 2026. (Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“From the establishment of the colony of Jamestown to the arrival of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, through periods of war and peace and through every challenge and every triumph, religious faith has indelibly shaped our character, informed our laws and strengthened our national spirit,” reads a proclamation establishing “Religious Freedom Day 2026” on January 16.
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“I promise that I will never stop fighting to restore America as a nation of prayer, a country of faith, and a radiant beacon of freedom and justice for all,” Trump’s recent proclamation continued.
