Matthew Wilson
President Donald Trump got candid with reporters about where he thinks he’s going when he dies. The businessman turned celebrity turned politician has had a divisive career, to say the least. Love him or hate him, it’s hard to deny he dominates the headlines.
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What Trump Had To Say: But Trump doesn’t think he’s going to heaven when he dies. Speaking to reporters on Air Force One on Sunday, Trump made a startling admission. Following up on claims that he was trying to broker a Russian/Ukrainian peace deal to get into heaven, Trump says he doesn’t think it would help.
“I’m being a little cute,” Trump said. “I don’t think there’s anything going to get me in heaven.”
- “I really don’t. I think I’m not maybe heaven-bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I’m not sure I’m going to be able to make heaven, but I’ve made life a lot better for a lot of people.”
Donald Trump Talks Mortality
Previous Comments: It’s not the first time the president has talked about the afterlife. Following an assassination attempt last year, Trump reaffirmed his belief in the afterlife.
- “I do [believe in heaven],” Trump said in an interview with Fox News. “If I’m good, I’m going to heaven. And if I’m bad, I’m going someplace else.”
- “Well, I pray for our country. I pray, obviously. I pray for the same thing you pray—our family and our country,” he also added, “and I guess we have a world. I pray for the world too.”
It’s a far cry from his previous beliefs during the 1990s. Trump previously considered himself agnostic, unable to wrap himself around the idea of an afterlife.
- “I don’t believe in reincarnation, heaven or hell—but we go someplace,” he said in 1990. “Do you know, I cannot, for the life of me, figure out where.”
Somewhere along the way, those beliefs apparently changed. In 2015, he said that he wanted to become president to get to heaven.
“So go out and spread the word and once I get in [to the White House], I will do my thing that I do very well,” Trump said in Orlando at the time. “And I figure it’s probably maybe the only way I’m going to get to heaven. So I better do a good job.”
