Clip shows restaurant worker clasping Trump’s hand while praying as he begins re-election effort

Donald Trump was detained over the weekend by a South Carolina restaurant worker who was emotional as she took the politician’s hand and prayed for the success of his presidential campaign.

The former president is officially back on the campaign trail as he embarks on his third consecutive run for the White House.

Trump made appearances in New Hampshire and South Carolina, both major primary states, during the last weekend of January.

The video was taken at Zesto West Columbia, an old-school ice cream and burger joint. The southern staple was established in the middle of the last century.

As employees continue to prepare orders in the background of the video, Trump asks the worker at the order window if she would recommend the food the restaurant serves.

The woman, who is also holding her phone to record the interaction, asks if he would mind if she prays for him. He says, ‘go ahead’.

She takes his hand, closes her eyes, frowns, and begins to pray for the success of her campaign.

Margo Martin, Trump’s deputy communications director, posted the video on Twitter with the caption: “This is the real @realDonaldTrump the media won’t show you!”

The video has amassed 1.2 million views and counting.

Over the weekend, Trump told the crowd that he is “more committed” to taking back the White House and “angrier” than ever about the direction the country is headed.

In South Carolina, Trump spoke to a crowd about focusing on the future during this campaign, signaling that he will avoid dwelling on what he has repeatedly called the stolen 2020 election.

‘This campaign will be about the future. This campaign will be about themes. Joe Biden has put America on the fast track to ruin and destruction and we will make sure he doesn’t get four more years,” Trump said at an event at the Columbia, South Carolina statehouse.

He vowed to reverse many of President Joe Biden’s policies, including action to expel millions of illegal immigrants from the country after two straight years of illegal immigrants flooding the US border under the current administration’s watch.

He also pledged to ban people born male from competing in women’s sports.

And he served up some classic choruses to great applause. “Together we will complete the unfinished business of Making America Great Again,” he said to an enthusiastic audience.

During his remarks in South Carolina, the former president was flanked by Sen. Lindsey Graham, Gov. Henry McMcaster, and Reps. Russell Fry, Joe Wilson, and William Timmons, among other state and local leaders.

Trump SC’s speech on Saturday was only his second public comment since announcing his candidacy on November 15, which was widely perceived as a lackluster start to his campaign.

Speaking from New Hampshire on Saturday, Trump assured the crowd that he would begin scheduling more rallies in the near future.

Also over the weekend, failed MAGA candidate Kari Lake, who has remained close to TrumpWorld since failing to secure the governorship of Arizona in November, tweeted a cryptic message in support of the Trump campaign.

“I pity the fool running against President Trump,” he wrote. “He is EXACTLY what America needs right now.”

Lake’s tweet was directed at the entire field of potential Republican contenders, but perhaps specifically at the wildly popular Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is considered a front-runner for 2024.

While DeSantis hasn’t formally stated his intentions for 2024, his refusal to rule out a run for the White House angered the former president.

During his campaign over the weekend, Trump once again took credit for helping DeSantis narrowly win the Tallahassee executive mansion in 2018, and fired another warning shot at his alleged ambitions.

“Ron wouldn’t have been governor if it wasn’t for me,” Trump told reporters aboard his plane on Saturday. So when I hear that he might run away, I consider it very disloyal.

After his speech in South Carolina, Trump said it would be “a gross act of disloyalty” if DeSantis were to oppose him in the primary and take credit for the initial choice of governor.

‘If he runs, it’s okay. I’m way up in the polls,” Trump said. ‘He’s going to have to do what he wants to do, but he can run away.

“I think it would be a huge act of disloyalty because, you know, I entered it. I had no chance. His political life was over.

Trump initially endorsed DeSantis in the 2018 gubernatorial primary campaign, but said Saturday he hasn’t spoken to him in a long time.

Since then, he has called DeSantis an “average governor” and “Ron DeSanctimonious.” On Saturday, Trump criticized the Florida governor’s COVID response.

“There are Republican governors who did not shut down their states,” Trump told reporters. ‘Florida was shut down for a long period of time. They are trying to rewrite history,” he added.

“I had governors who decided not to shut anything down and that was up to them,” he said, defending his choice to leave it up to the governors of each state.

Trump also criticized DeSantis’ shifting stance on vaccines, saying the Florida governor had “changed his tune a lot.”

While Trump remains the only declared presidential candidate for 2024, potential challengers, including former Vice President Mike Pence and former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, who was Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations, are expected to begin their campaigns in the next months.