However, others criticized the former president or otherwise expressed that they felt the post was odd.
“Babe wake up, Trump is posting like your weird aunt who falls for AI pictures on Facebook,” one person wrote.
Another remarked, “Donald Trump is not and has never been a Christian, [please] stop letting him insult your intelligence.” Someone else simply noted that Trump “tweeting the prayer to Saint Michael the Archangel was not on my bingo card.”
On the same day Trump posted the prayer, he spent a considerable portion of his rally speech in Erie, Pennsylvania, demonizing immigrants, at one point referring to them as “savage, criminal aliens.”
Trump went on to speak about crime more broadly, implying that greater violence might be the answer.
“We have to let the police do their job,” he said. “And if they have to be extraordinarily rough…the police aren’t allowed to do their job.”
“The police want to do it; the border patrol wants to do it,” Trump said. “They’re not allowed to do it, because the liberal left won’t let them do it.”
“You know,” he continued, “if you had one day, like one real, rough, nasty day…if you had one really violent day—like a guy like [Republican Pennsylvania Congressman] Mike Kelly, put him in charge. Congressman Kelly, put him in charge for one day.”
“One rough hour—and I mean real rough—the word will get out, and it will end immediately,” Trump said.