Against the backdrop of the Washington Monument, worship music blared from a stage at an event highlighting how the Trump administration is weaponising religion.

The “jubilee of prayer, praise, and thanksgiving" is expected to draw thousands of attendees for the “rededication of our country as One Nation Under God.”

The taxpayer-funded event is hosting religious speakers who trashed Pope Leo’s words as “pious blather” and claimed Muslims are taught to “murder and rape.”

White House mass prayer event seeks to reclaim US Christian roots