The evening of his acquittal in the Senate trial, Trump hosted a small private dinner in the White House for about a dozen religious leaders in town for the next day’s National Prayer Breakfast. He called it his “Un-impeachment Celebration.” The annual prayer breakfast was a bipartisan tradition since the Eisenhower era, and it seemed particularly well timed for a nation in need of post-impeachment reconciliation. The president, however, was not thinking about forgiveness, much less atonement.
