Oh, here we go again — another lecture from Jen Psaki, the former White House spin machine turned full-time cable news moralizer, who has apparently decided that mocking prayer is the new progressive sacrament.
After the horrific shooting at a Catholic school Mass in Minneapolis — an unimaginable tragedy where at least two children were killed — Psaki didn’t wait for facts or reflection. No, she took to X (formerly Twitter, because we’re all still pretending Elon didn’t just rename Twitter like a Bond villain), and delivered her sermon: “Prayer is not freaking enough.”
Jen Psaki in tears,
“You’re going to start seeing narratives…about how the shooter was trans. You’re going to see narratives about the shooter appeared to be anti-Trump…”
It doesn’t “appear” Jen, it’s a fact
— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) August 28, 2025
Now look, nobody — and I mean nobody — is saying prayer alone is a public policy. But Psaki wasn’t looking to start a debate. This wasn’t a call to action. This was a swipe at people of faith, particularly Christians, who turn to prayer in moments of tragedy, grief, and confusion — because apparently expressing spiritual support is now offensive to the modern MSNBC elite.
Megan Basham vs Jen Psaki is a debate I’d pay to see. pic.twitter.com/FB0ImDN1FK
— WWUTT? (@WWUTTcom) August 27, 2025
Jen Psaki thought now would be a good time to attack both prayer and the National Guard.
What a vile woman. pic.twitter.com/J82jBwRYBM
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) August 27, 2025
Let’s break down the hypocrisy here. This is the same Jen Psaki who offered “thoughts and prayers” in 2017 when Republican Congressman Steve Scalise was shot. That was fine then, of course, because the narrative fit. But now, when kids are shot during Mass — in a Catholic school — suddenly prayer is “not freaking enough”? She could’ve left it at a call for policy. But nope. The left just can’t resist the urge to kick faith in the teeth every chance they get. Especially when it’s Christianity.
🚨 HOLY CRAP! JD Vance just absolutely NUKED Jen Psaki for attacking Christians for “prayers” after the Minneapolis trans sho-ter wreaked havoc.
“Why do you feel the need to attack other people for praying when kids were just k-lled praying?”
“Of all the weird left wing culture… pic.twitter.com/Pi1V8pn2Ef
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 28, 2025
But what really makes this moment so rich in irony is Psaki’s jab about Trump deploying the National Guard in D.C. “to put down mulch,” as she so eloquently put it. First off, that deployment was to handle actual crime, which is something that Democrats — from Minneapolis to Chicago to D.C. — seem categorically allergic to addressing unless it can be spun for political gain. Maybe she forgot (or ignored) that Minneapolis slashed its police budget in the wake of the George Floyd protests and saw violent crime explode. Maybe she didn’t see the same headlines we did when D.C. homicides hit a 25-year high. But sure, mulch jokes are cute. Real policy? Not so much.
And then we get to the identity of the shooter. The media danced around it, but court documents revealed that Robert Westman had his name legally changed to Robin and identified as female. The uncomfortable truth for the left — and for Psaki, who’d rather you not look too hard at this part — is that a disturbingly disproportionate number of these shooters fall into some part of the gender-dysphoria spectrum. We are told we must affirm, accommodate, and celebrate every possible identity. And when that encouragement leads to confusion, instability, and sometimes violence? We’re just supposed to pretend that has nothing to do with anything.
Let’s be clear: mental illness, untreated and glorified in activist circles, is part of this story. You don’t fix that with mulch. You don’t fix it by pretending that biology is bigotry. And you certainly don’t fix it by mocking prayer.
People of faith turn to prayer because it works. Not always in the way MSNBC panels would understand — not as a policy lever or a hashtag — but in the hearts of grieving parents, pastors, and kids who just lost classmates. It’s comfort, it’s connection, and yes, it’s real.
Karen Hamilton said it better than most: “I don’t expect a spiritually blind person to understand prayer, but it is real.” And frankly, that’s the issue. Psaki and her ilk don’t get it because they don’t want to get it. In their worldview, everything is a problem that government can solve, and faith is just an obstacle to be mocked or managed.
But America is still full of people who pray. People who believe that the answer to evil isn’t more performative rage on social media — it’s clarity, faith, and yes, action grounded in reality. That means securing schools. That means addressing mental health, especially among young people being pushed into radical ideologies before they even know who they are. And that means leaders who don’t exploit tragedy to attack tradition.
We don’t need Psaki’s approval to pray. And we don’t need her tweets to tell us what’s “enough.”
