'Christian Nationalism, y'all': Internet mocks Trump's 'heresies at prayer breakfast'

Donald Trump openly mused again about running for a third term during his remarks at a National Prayer Breakfast event.

The recently inaugurated president floated the idea Thursday morning of seeking another term, which is expressly prohibited by the U.S. Constitution's 22nd Amendment, in remarks that occasionally veered wildly off script.

“I want to be here with you, and I have to be here with you, and I do that despite the fact that they say I can’t run again," Trump told the audience at the Washington Hilton, who laughed at the suggestion.

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Trump promised to be a "peacemaker" and "unifier," but he also mocked Joe Biden and other Democrats and claimed they "oppose religion" and "oppose God," and the crowd cheered when he pledged to sign an executive order putting attorney general Pam Bondi in charge of a task force “to eradicate anti-Christian bias.”

Social media users reacted to those statements and others.

"At the second National Prayer Breakfast (yes, there are two this year--Christian Nationalism, y'all) Trump opens by suggesting the constitutional restraints on him running for a third time don't apply to him," posted attorney and author Andrew L. Seidel. "This will be a fight in the near future folks."

"Why, MSNBC, why are you going live to Trump's heresies at the prayer breakfast," said media critic Jeff Jarvis. "You're not Fox."

"Trump the Antichrist is lying his way through his national prayer breakfast speech," added the popular CoffeyTimeNews account. "Apparently American 'spirit' is UP 49%. Whatever the f*ck that means."

"At Capitol, Trump refers to the House Minority Leader as 'Congressman Jeffries,' rather than 'Leader Jeffries,'" posted John T. Bennett, White House correspondent and editor-at-large for CQ Roll Call. "Not very subtle."

"At National Prayer Breakfast, President Trump compares odds of a helicopter and plane colliding to golfballs," said Matt Viser, White House bureau chief for the Washington Post. "It's like, did you ever see you go to a driving range in golf and you're hitting balls, hundreds of balls, thousands of hours? I never see a ball hit another ball.'"

"Trump invoking Thomas Jefferson for his claim that 'we have to bring religion back,' that's the same Thomas Jefferson who famously took a razor to the New Testament and sliced out all the supernatural parts," noted Cambridge historian Nicholas Guyatt.

"The best estimates we have for the 1770s and 80s put church membership rates in Revolutionary America at about 17%," added Seth Cotlar, a U.S. history professor at Willamette University. "In the election of 1800, the main criticism of and most widespread fear about Jefferson was that he didn’t believe in God."

"Trump on air traffic control: 'We're gonna sit down & do a great computerized system for our control towers. Brand new...let's spend less money & build a great system done by 2 or 3 companies...when I land in my plane, privately, I use a system from another country...I won't tell you what country,'" reported journalist Aaron Rupar.

"The ‘injecting bleach’ approach to landing aircraft," replied cartoonist Mark Thompson.

"TRUMP SAYS HIS PRIVATE PLANE USES AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEM FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY, WON'T NAME IT," added Martin Baccardax, senior editor for TheStreet. "I'm sure this is fine..."