Donald Trump Tells Church Leaders: “You Should Be the Most Powerful People on Earth—That’s Why We Go to Church on Sunday”

On September 8, 2025, President Donald Trump addressed Catholic and Protestant leaders during the second public meeting of the White House’s Religious Liberty Commission, held at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. During his speech, President Trump declared that church leaders should be the most powerful people on earth. He emphasized that he wants to hear specifically from faith leaders—not just anyone—because he respects their authority. He then added, “That’s why we go to church on Sunday.”

Donald Trump’s statement is troubling for three key reasons:

1 – Trump’s statement elevates Sunday as the unifying force for religious leaders in America, thereby exalting human tradition above the clear commands of the Word of God. This aligns with the prophecy of Daniel 7:25, where attempts are made to change God’s times and laws, and it anticipates the warning of Revelation 13, which describes a time when religious tradition will be enforced by civil power.

2 – By telling faith leaders that they “should be the most powerful people on earth,” Trump is effectively elevating Catholic and Protestant clergy to a position of divine authority within society. In essence, this implies that political power should yield to religious authority—an idea that stands in direct conflict with the principles of the U.S. Constitution.

3 – The elevation of religious leaders as the most influential figures in society, when linked with Sunday observance and government involvement, points to the coming political enforcement of religious doctrine foretold in prophecy. Revelation 13:11–17 warns that the United States will ultimately enforce Sunday laws. In this context, Donald Trump’s words may be understood as contributing to the ideological foundation for such laws by drawing church and state closer together and centering this movement on Sunday worship.

The White House’s Religious Liberty Commission resembles the end-time coalition of church and state leaders that will ultimately empower the false churches—the harlot woman and her daughters—depicted in Revelation as riding the beast of political power. Trump’s words serve as a reminder that the prophecy of Revelation 17, in which political authorities yield to religious leaders, is steadily unfolding and will lead to the exaltation of Sunday as the solution to strengthen and empower society.

“The enforcement of Sunday-keeping on the part of Protestant churches is an enforcement of the worship of the papacy—of the beast. Those who, understanding the claims of the fourth commandment, choose to observe the false instead of the true Sabbath are thereby paying homage to that power by which alone it is commanded. But in the very act of enforcing a religious duty by secular power, the churches would themselves form an image to the beast; hence, the enforcement of Sunday-keeping in the United States would be an enforcement of the worship of the beast and his image” (Great Controversy, p. 448).