All right. We're live, buddy. Just another, is it Thursday? It's Thursday. I'm Sam Stein managing editor at

the board here with Andrew Eger, author of Morning Shots. As he was getting out his newsletter this morning,

Donald Trump, the president, was speaking at the national prayer breakfast. It was Trumpian. A lot of weird asides that had nothing to do with faith and a lot of

efforts to basically claim that the Christian faith is aligned with MAGA and nothing else.

Andrew, before I get into some of my favorite bits of that, and we're also going to touch on the

NBC news that Trump gave last night.. And we're also going to touch on the NBC news that

Trump gave last night. Listen, I'm not going to break news here, but I'm Jewish. You're not.

Talk to me a little bit about the sort of weird relationship that I perceive between people of

Christian faith and this president who seems on the

surface to not embody some of their ideals. Yeah, yeah. So there's a couple things you could talk about.

You could talk about sort of like the tortured relationship between Donald Trump and sort of Christianity,

writ large, or American Christianity. But the thing that is on display at an event like

the National Prayer Breakfast is a subset of that, right? It's not only the subset of Donald

Trump and his reliable base in sort of white Protestant evangelicalism out in sort of the

heartland of America. But it's even more specific than that. It's Donald Trump and his

kind of like faith coalition of leaders, televangelists, like Paula White, you know, focus on the family,

you know, honcho type people who have become like a really reliable part of his political

infrastructure as well. So it's like, you know, it's members of Congress are there. It's,

it's people who are in his White House faith office. And so it like, you know, its members of Congress are there. It's, it's people who are in

his White House faith office. And so it's, it is, it is one of the like little subsets of people with whom

Trump is the most personally and politically comfortable because they are super ultra-reliable

allies. They are, they are a part of the coalition that helped him ever take power at all. And more

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