President Donald Trump boasted on Thursday that he may have flouted the separation of church and state by putting his faith office directly in the West Wing of the White House, a departure from past administrations.
“You know they work right out of the White House,” Trump said of the White House Faith Office during a Rose Garden event commemorating the National Day of Prayer. “They say ‘separation between church and state,’ they told me. I said, ‘All right, let’s forget about that for one time.’”
“We said, ‘Really, separation?’” Trump continued. “I don’t know. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? I’m not sure. But whether there’s separation or not, you guys are in the White House, where you should be.”