During the Thanksgiving turkey-pardon ceremony on November 25, 2025, President Donald Trump did far more than spare a pair of birds — he delivered a full-throated celebration of America’s spiritual comeback, something the media has worked overtime to ignore. And for good measure, he slipped in some classic Trump humor at Joe Biden’s expense.
While the Left insists religion is dying in the United States, the data tells a remarkably different story. After decades of decline, Christian faith in America is stabilizing — and even rebounding — especially among young people. You won’t hear that on MSNBC, but you *did* hear it from the President.
Standing before a packed crowd on the White House lawn, Trump praised what he called a “return to prayer” sweeping the country.
“We have more people praying. The churches are coming back,” he said. “Religion is coming back to America. Some people say, ‘Why would you mention that?’ To me, that’s a big deal.”
And he’s right — it *is* a big deal.
A new Pew Research analysis shows the decades-long decline in Christian identification leveling off around 62–64%. More striking, a Barna Research study found that **30 million Americans have become Christians in the last five years**, with two-thirds of all U.S. adults now saying they’ve made a personal commitment to Jesus that still matters in their daily lives.
Barna’s CEO, David Kinnaman, called it a “renewed interest in Jesus,” adding that spiritual engagement is actually being **led by younger generations** — the opposite of the doom-and-gloom secular narrative pushed by progressives.
So when Trump said the revival is real, he was echoing what millions of Americans already feel: the cultural tide is finally turning away from the Left’s nihilism and back toward faith, family, and the values that built this country.
But in true Trump fashion, the moment wasn’t all solemnity. He also delivered some of his sharpest holiday jabs yet at Joe Biden — whose 2024 turkey pardon was infamously signed with an *autopen* because Biden couldn’t manage the ceremony himself.
Trump couldn’t resist.
“He used an autopen last year for the turkey’s pardon,” Trump said, grinning. “So I have determined that last year’s turkey pardons are totally invalid — as are the pardons of about every other person that was pardoned… other than… where’s Hunter?”
The crowd roared.
He didn’t stop there, either. Trump mocked the chaos he inherited from Biden’s administration, joking, “We have a Department of everything. You know what that is? That’s called the White House. Into a terrible situation caused by a man named Sleepy Joe Biden.”
The contrast was unmistakable: Trump presiding over a nation rediscovering its faith — Biden presiding over a nation that wonders who’s actually running the country.
In a season meant for reflection, Trump’s message was simple and uplifting:
America’s spirit isn’t dying. It’s returning.
And many Americans would say that has a lot to do with the man back in the Oval Office.
