Donald Trump welcomes Jon Voight to the Oval Office days after conservative Oscar-winner called for 'highest prayers' for president during impeachment trial

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Donald Trump met with Jon Voight in the Oval Office Tuesday after the conservative actor called for 'highest prayers' for the president during his impeachment trial. 

President Trump spoke with Voight before he left for a campaign rally in Wildwood, N.J., with newly-minted Republican Congressman Jeff Van Drew.

The two men stepped out of the Oval Office and spoke outside on its colonnade for a few minutes before the president departed. Voight did not travel with President Trump.

Details of their meeting were not immediately available.

Donald Trump speaks with Jon Voight outside the Oval Office Tuesday

Trump and Voight met before the president left for a campaign rally in New Jersey

Last week Voight, one of President Trump’s most vocal supporters in Hollywood, posted a video on his Twitter account blasting the Democrats for committing the ‘crime’ of impeaching Trump.

Voight said the Democrats who have put Trump on trial in the Senate are a group of ‘radical’ left wingers who are trying to ‘knock down a nation of God’s glory.’

‘Let us stand among the greatest statues that stand on the White House grounds, where truths were spoken long ago by our forefathers,’ the Oscar winner best known for his role as Joe Buck in the 1969 film Midnight Cowboy said. 

‘Let us remember what this house stands for, this White House. It stands for trust, and stands for moral obligation.

‘It stands for the safety of the United States of America.’ 

Voight, who is the father of Angelina Jolie, warned that ‘the president is in much danger from this radical left wing group.’

‘I say “radical” because this group has only filthy lies and distortion of the mighty truths that have been written,’ he said.

Jon Voight, the 81-year-old Academy Award-winning actor, posted a video on his Twitter page last Friday blasting Democrats for impeaching President Trump

Voight continued: ‘The truth, my friends, the truth that holds the greatest scripture, that is the Declaration of Independence.

‘We as a nation have gained this back with President Trump.

‘And what does the left want to do? To knock down a nation of God’s glory.

‘This is a disgrace to mankind and a disgrace to the people of the United States of America.

‘This is a crime - an impeachment to take down a nation’s success for their control of deceit and disgusting lies against our President Trump, who held to his promise for our country (and) his word for our country's love.’

Voight ended this speech by invoking religious figures, including Jesus and Moses.

‘We call upon our highest prayers and ask Jesus, Moses, and all saints to save the truth that has been taken down by these cruel individuals of the left and ask God to place his hands upon this nation of the United States of America and bless and protect the truth for our President Donald Trump, so he can continue his legacy as one of our greatest presidents,’ the Varsity Blues actor said.

In November, Trump awarded Voight the National Medal of Arts at a ceremony in the East Room of the White House

In November, Jon Voight went with the president and first lady to Dover Air Force base to to honor two soldiers killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan 

Jon Voight trails behind President Trump and First Lady Melania at Andrews Air Force Base in November

Trump is in route to New Jersey for his first campaign rally since his impeachment trial began.

He'll also use the occasion to tout his vision for the Middle East, which he revealed at the White House on Tuesday, and push his November re-election bid. 

It's not Voight's first time at the White House to meet with Trump.

He was at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in November to receive the prestigious National Medal of Arts when the president invited the actor to join him and first lady Melania Trump on a trip to Delaware to honor two soldiers killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan.

Voight flew with them to Dover Air Force Base. 

The actor said at the time: 'I just wanted to pay my respects, say a little prayer.'