(LifeSiteNews) — President Donald Trump recently said he wants “to try to get to heaven if possible,” while discussing his efforts to end the ongoing war in Ukraine.
“If I can save 7,000 people a week from being killed, I think that’s, I want to try to get to heaven if possible,” he told “Fox and Friends” on Tuesday morning. “I’m hearing I’m not doing well, I’m really at the bottom of the totem pole. But if I can get to heaven, this will be one of the reasons.”
Trump met last week with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska to discuss efforts to end the ongoing conflict that began when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. Earlier this week Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House.
Although Trump has never been particularly religious, he has previously made comments affirming he believes in God, particularly following his survival of an assassination attempt in July 2024.
“It is absolutely certain that the only reason you are alive – shooting or no shooting – is because God wants you to be alive,” LifeSiteNews editor-in-chief John-Henry Westen said last year in response. Westen continued on to urge Trump to consider converting to the Catholic faith, and pointing out that the president, like all people, will eventually die.
“Now is the time for you to seek out the solution to the great problems of life – of sin, of man’s fall from grace, our estrangement from God, our redemption and sanctification by Jesus Christ, the only true God,” Westen said in August 2024.
“And through all this, you can come to know, love and serve him for the remainder of your life on earth, and then be happy with him forever in the next,” he added.
In March 2024, Westen also urged prayers for Trump’s conversion to Catholicism.
Many liberal commentators mocked Trump’s comments. The Lincoln Project, a Never Trump organization, mocked the president’s comments. Former GOP consultant Rick Wilson suggested that Trump’s “background” means he cannot get into heaven.
However, as long as Trump is alive there is still time for him to convert to the Catholic faith and confess his sins and be fully reconciled with God. Wilson’s co-hosts joined in on mocking someone who was expressing an interest in his own salvation.
However, Catholic Daily Wire commentator Michael Knowles said Trump’s comments were a good sign.
“Of all of the things to attack a politician for, this will never be topped,” Knowles said. “Attacking a president because he wants to go to heaven.”
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the president was “serious” about wanting to go to heaven.
