President Donald Trump on Sunday candidly spoke about his spiritual beliefs while on route to Egypt on Air Force One.
“I don’t think I’m going to heaven,” he told reporters over the weekend.
This was in response to a question a reporter asked about Trump’s motives to end the war in Eastern Europe.
The reporter noted, “You talked about how you hoped to end the war in Ukraine because it might help you get into heaven.”
“I don’t think there’s anything going to get me in heaven. I think I’m not maybe heaven-bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly in Air Force One,” the president responded.
He added: “But I’ve made life a lot better for a lot of people.”
When he spoke in August about his attempts to qualify for heaven, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed she thought Trump was serious.
“I think the president wants to get to heaven — as I hope we all do in this room as well," she told reporters in August.
Trump celebrates the ceasefire deal in trip to Israel and Egypt
Over the weekend Trump traveled to Israel, where he delivered remarks in front of the Knesset in Jerusalem, before making his way to Egypt for a global summit on Gaza’s future after his administration helped broker an initial peace agreement in the region.
Trump also declared a “new dawn in the Middle East” at the Knesset and said the war was over.
All 20 of the living hostages who remain in Gaza were released on Monday, as the Deseret News reported.
In exchange, 250 Palestinian prisoners who were previously sentenced to years in prison for crimes will be released, as well as another 1,700 Palestinian detainees who have been held in Gaza since the initial Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas.
In Egypt, Trump signed the peace deal documents related to Israel and Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declined the invitation to attend because the summit fell on the same day as a Jewish holiday.
“This took 3,000 years to get to this point. Can you believe it? And it’s going to hold up, too. It’s going to hold up,” Trump said while signing the documents.
“Maybe this is going to be the greatest deal of them all,” he said of the peace deal, which is still in its early stages.
Could Tomahawk missiles bring Russia to the negotiating table?
The war in Ukraine is still very much on the president’s mind. He is expected to meet his Ukrainian counterpart, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, at the White House on Friday, as Axios reported.
He told reporters Sunday that he may send long-range Tomahawk missiles to Kyiv if Moscow doesn’t come to the negotiating table and bring an end to the war.
“I might say, ’Look: if this war is not going to get settled, I’m going to send them Tomahawks,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday. “The Tomahawk is an incredible weapon, very offensive weapon. And honestly, Russia does not need that.”
Despite starting this year with optimism about ending the Russia-Ukraine war, Trump has found little success in coaxing Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table.
In recent months, the White House moved away from its friendly approach and is now applying pressure by considering Ukraine’s request for these precision strike weapons.
According to Axios, Ukraine asked the U.S. for the Tomahawk missiles several times in 2025.
These missiles have a range of up to 1,550 miles. Moscow would be within Ukraine’s reach with these missiles.