President Donald Trump made another comment about his chances of getting into heaven on Sunday while aboard Air Force One en route to Tel Aviv for the start of Phase One of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal that the U.S. helped facilitate.
“I don’t think there’s anything gonna get me in heaven, okay? I really don’t,” he said to reporters on the plane. “I think I’m not maybe heaven-bound.”
“I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One,” the president joked. “I’m not sure I’m going to be able to make heaven.”
Trump has a history of making remarks about his concerns regarding the afterlife. While he has made more comments lately about getting to heaven, he has talked publicly about it as far back as 2016.
“This will be maybe the most important election that our country’s ever had,” he said to evangelical leaders in August 2016 during his presidential campaign. “Once I get in, I will do my thing that I do very well, and I figure it’s probably maybe the only way I’m going to get to heaven.”
After the assassination attempt against him in July 2024, Trump was asked by Fox News’ Laura Ingraham if he believes in heaven. “I do,” he said emphatically. “If I’m good, I’m going to heaven. And if I’m bad, I’m going to someplace else.”
In August 2025, Trump told “Fox & Friends” in a telephone interview that he felt his chances of making it to heaven could increase if he negotiates peace between Russia and Ukraine.
“I want to try and get to heaven if possible. I’m hearing I’m not doing well,” he said. “I hear I’m really at the bottom of the totem pole.”
“I think the president was serious,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said, when asked if Trump was joking about the spiritual motivation behind his peace efforts. “I think the president wants to get to heaven, as I hope we all do in this room as well,” Leavitt told reporters.
Shortly after, in a “Todd Starnes Show” radio interview, the president said, “If you’re not a believer and you believe you go nowhere, what’s the reason to be good really? There has to be some kind of a report card up there someplace, you know, like, let’s go to heaven, let’s get into heaven.”
