President Donald Trump participates in a prayer before a rally in Des Moines, Iowa, Thursday, July 3, 2025. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)
President Donald Trump's administration crafted a list of 250 things that it says the president has done for people of faith. It comes amid criticism from the faith community that Trump hasn't done enough on their agenda. But the list isn't stacking up to fact-checks.
Earlier this month, MAGA loyalist Tim Moore penned a column attacking Trump for refusing to allow persecuted Christians entrance to the United States. Instead, those who came to the U.S. under asylum claims are being deported despite assurances by the president that the country is friendly to all Christians.
Trump's list claims, “nobody has fought harder or gained more for believers, reversing the catastrophic policies of the previous administration while building on the winning legacy of his first term.”
The Friendly Atheist wrote on Substack Tuesday, feigning shock, that there was no proof of the claims on the list.
The issue is that the list isn't about what Trump has done for "people of faith"; it's only for evangelical Christians, the fact-check said.
The first thing on the list claims Trump started a "historic" White House Faith Office. It was actually first founded by President George W. Bush, and Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden continued it.
"There’s nothing new about this sort of office, much less historic," said FA. "Trump just made sure the only people who feel at home within it are white evangelicals and their allies."
There are other things on the list that the FA calls "egregiously wrong."
Number 15 falsely says that the Department of Justice eliminated restrictions that “required houses of worship and faith-based organizations to ban religious aspects of their programs to receive federal funds.”
It's never what the law said, FA explained. "It merely said federal funds couldn’t be used for religious worship, instruction or proselytizing."
It also brags about arresting the people who protested in the church in Minneapolis, where the pastor was also working as a high-ranking ICE official.
"The Department of Justice swiftly arrested dozens of radical left rioters who attacked a worship service at a Minnesota church — sending a clear message that violence against places of worship will not be tolerated," Trump's list says.
FA explained that even for those who think there shouldn't be protesters allowed into a church, no one "attacked" the church, nor was there any "violence."
It turns out that the city attorney never filed charges against anyone. The prosecutor explained that the video evidence was “insufficient to meet that standard for criminal charges.”
Federal prosecutors made their own efforts to prosecute 38 people, including journalists, saying that they broke felony laws along with conspiracy. Those cases are still ongoing, though even the federal prosecutors dropped the felonies down to misdemeanors.
The list also claims that there was a Joe Biden-era guidance mandating that pharmacists who are against reproductive freedom dispense pills even if it is against their religious beliefs. In fact, Biden's guidance specifically cited the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), saying that those pharmacists did not have to dispense the pills.
"The Trump memo frames those protections for patients" as a mandate for terminating pregnancies. But as FA said, it also concedes "that the earlier document included both disclaimers."
These are just a few of the items on the entire list that FA debunks. Among the fact checks is that Trump's claim that "launching an investigation," or "publishing a report" or "filing a lawsuit" aren’t victories because nothing has yet to change in case law or garner any results. There are 15 of those examples. There are also four requests sent to Congress that also accomplished nothing. A whopping 37 examples are things Trump has said in speeches, which the list claims are "accomplishments."