Article By CP Staff
President Donald Trump made more than $200,000 in royalties last year from sales of Lee Greenwood’s leather-bound “God Bless the USA” Bible bearing his endorsement.
Trump listed 2025 income of $208,486 from “The Greenwood Bible,” according to financial disclosures released last week by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics.
The number marks a steep decline from the $1.3 million Trump made off the book in 2024 during the presidential campaign, putting his total proceeds at more than $1.5 million at the end of last year.
First announced and endorsed by Trump in March 2024, Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” Bible originally cost $59.99, features the King James Version of the text and contains the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence and the Pledge of Allegiance.
The Bible also has the handwritten chorus to “God Bless the USA,” Greenwood’s famous song that has featured prominently at Trump rallies and other events featuring the president.
Other editions were subsequently released, priced at $99.99, and a limited number, fewer than 200, featuring Trump’s personal signature, sold for $1,000.
Some versions available for $99.99 were endorsed by first lady Melania Trump and Vice President JD Vance.
Editions that sold out included an Inauguration Day Edition Bible and a version commemorating “the day God intervened,” a reference to Trump’s narrow escape from assassination in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024.
Trump’s version of the Bible, which The Associated Press reported in 2024 was printed in China for approximately $3 each, drew mixed reactions from Christian scholars and activists at the time, with some accusing the product of exhibiting unhealthy syncretism between politics and religion.
Andrew T. Walker, an ethics and public theology professor at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, wrote in an op-ed for WORLD in 2024 that “fusing America’s founding documents with the Word of God is a syncretistic expression of civil religion that goes farther than what those who love their country — and, more importantly, for those who love their Bibles — should ever allow.”
“To put matters bluntly, a Bible like this should never have been made,” Walker wrote. “That is not because I’m anti-Bible or anti-Constitution. Actually, I am very much in favor of both. They fuel both my heavenly citizenship and my earthly citizenship. But fusing the two in the name of religious-civic identity can quickly become a form of identity politics for the political right.”
Dr. Richard Land, who serves as executive editor of The Christian Post and formerly led the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, also expressed concern in 2024 that the “God Bless the USA” Bible was wrong to group Scripture with America’s founding documents.
“I believe it is not a good idea to bind Holy Scripture together with any other documents, including the Declaration, Constitution, etc.,” Land wrote.
“It will only confuse people by either elevating our founding documents to a level of authority they do not deserve, or they will tempt people to view the Holy Scripture as less than fully sacred.”
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