US President Donald Trump has announced that he has ordered governors to open up places of worship opining that is wrong for some state governors to designate ‘liquor stores and abortion clinics’ as ‘essential services’ but keep places of worship like churches, mosques and synagogues closed.

Amid the Coronavirus pandemic hat has killed over 95,000 people in the US, Trump on Friday said he is designating all places of worship – including churches, synagogues and mosques – “essential,” saying he wants them to “open right now.”

Reacting to the move by state governors of keeping “liquor stores and abortion centres” open during during the lockdown while keeping places of worship shuttered, Trump said in the White House briefing room.

It’s not right,” Trump said. “I’m calling houses of worship essential.”

“If there’s any question, they’re going to have to call me, but they’re not going to be successful in that call,” Trump said of state leaders.

“The governors need to do the right thing and allow these very important essential places of faith to open right now, for this weekend,”

“If they don’t do it, I will override the governors.”

“It’s not right,” ”This move is aimed at correcting this injustice.”

“If there’s any question, they’re going to have to call me, But they are not going to be successful in that call.”

“In America, we need more prayer,” “Not less.” Mr Trump said before leaving the briefing room.

Earlier on Friday Trump spoke more on the subject.

“We want our churches and our places of faith and worship, we want them to open,” he said. “But they’re going to be opening up very soon. We want our churches open, we want our places of faith, synagogues, we want them open, and that’s going to start happening.”

“I consider them essential, and that’s one of the things we’re saying. We’re going to make that essential,” Mr Trump said. “You know, they have places [deemed] essential that aren’t essential. And they open, and yet the churches aren’t allowed to open, and the synagogues. And again, places of faith, mosques, places of faith.”

A large chunk of Mr Trump’s political base is very religious. In the 2016 election, Trump notably took 75 per cent of the white evangelical vote and has invited pastors and preachers during his tenure to lead prayer sessions at the White House.

Trump appeared in the briefing room to read a short statement announcing he has approved guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help state and local leaders safely allow worship facilities to open back up.

He does have the right under the United States Constitution to order Governors to do this.

Abeg, this isn't Nigeria. He will backtrack tomorrow.

Powers he doesn’t have. He’s trying to motivate people to put pressure on governors to reopen the city. Leaders like him are good for places like Africa where life has little to no value, where there are less leaders and more dictators

socialmediaman:
Powers he doesn’t have. He’s trying to motivate people to put pressure on governors to reopen the city. Leaders like him are good for places like Africa where life has little to no value, where there are less leaders and more dictators

Are you trying to say D.Trump is a dictator..no he is not, he is only doing his job, he is a proactive leader, one that does not compromise and take nonsense from individuals as well as countries.

Sincerely, am Pro-D.Trump and I like his style ..meanwhile there are some in Africa that have not even done a single media chat since the outbreak of this pandemic, all we here is the 'presidency says', infact he is incommunicado as I speak .what a shame.

Biofil84:
Are you trying to say D.Trump is a dictator..no he is not, he is only doing his job, he is a proactive leader, one that does not compromise and take nonsense from individuals as well as countries.

Sincerely, am Pro-D.Trump and I like his style ..meanwhile there are some in Africa that have not even done a single media chat since the outbreak of this pandemic, all we here is the 'presidency says', infact he is incommunicado as I speak .what a shame.

Well this is less about the useless tyrant In Aso rock and more about DT. DT’s inactions caused thousands of lives and his actions are costing more. Obama faced a threat like this twice during his tenure but the Country was not shut down.

Showmanship Is not leadership, bros. Most of his supporters are those who do less research of their own or just plain selfish.

He doesn’t wear a mask when making contact with the public, his vice does same. He probably thinks this will give a sense of strong leadership. Doesn’t he know that wearing a mask is less about protecting yourself and more about protecting others in case he caught the virus?

His supporters also picked that up. That’s what they get to learn from their leader. I’ve seen people refuse to wear masks because they think they’ll be fine even if they caught the virus, but hey, it’s not about them, it’s about them transferring the virus to other people.

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