‘My Pillow’ CEO Exhorts Nation to Return to God Amid COVID-19 Crisis

President Donald Trump listens as Michael J. Lindell, CEO of MyPillow Inc., speaks during the daily briefing on the CCP virus, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, on March 30, 2020. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell made an impromptu speech at a White House meeting involving several national business leaders, urging people to get back to their faith and read the Bible.

Lindell made his remarks at the Rose Garden news conference on March 30, where many CEOs of national industries attended to discuss how they could live up to what Trump described as their “patriotic duty” to do their part in warding off threat of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as novel coronavirus.

After the meeting, several CEOs were invited to address the assembled press from the podium.

“A friend of mine, Mike Lindell of MyPillow, boy, do you sell those pillows,” Trump said of Lindell, who was the first invited to speak, Politico reported. “It’s unbelievable what you do.”

President Donald Trump speaks with Mike Lindell (L), founder of MyPillow, during a Made in America event with US manufacturers in the East Room of the White House in Washington, on July 19, 2017. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images

Lindell briefly spoke about how MyPillow started converting 75 percent of its production from pillows to manufacturing safety masks last week and that the company is currently ramping up from producing 10,000 masks per day to 50,000 per day.

After Lindell was done, he asked Trump whether he could make some “off-the-cuff” remarks, to which Trump agreed.

“God gave us grace on Nov. 8, 2016, to change the course we were on,” Lindell said, referring to the date Trump was elected president.

“God had been taken out of our schools and lives. A nation had turned its back on God, and I encourage you to use this time at home to get back in the Word. Read our Bibles and spend time with our families.

“Our president gave us so much hope where just a few short months ago we had the best economy, the lowest unemployment, and wages going up.

“It was amazing. With our great president, vice president, and this administration and all the great people in this country praying daily, we will get through this and get back to a place that’s stronger and safer than ever.”

After Lindell was finished, Trump took the stage and said Lindell’s remarks took him by surprise. “I did not know he was going to do that,” Trump said. “But he is a friend of mine, and I do appreciate it.”

Lindell’s spontaneous action was the talk of the town on social media, with many praising his opinion.

“Michael Lindell is a private citizen entitled to his own opinion. He is also being downright heroic for working to manufacture more masks,” correspondent Philip Wegmann of RealClearNews wrote on Twitter.

From NTD News