U.S. President Donald Trump connected his efforts to broker peace in Ukraine with a personal, spiritual aspiration during a Fox News interview on August 19.
The 79-year-old American leader has previously hinted that he sees ending the war, which has raged since February 2022, as a path to securing the Nobel Peace Prize — an award he believes he deserves.
However, speaking the day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and several European leaders visited the White House to push for a solution to the conflict, Trump revealed he also has less worldly motives.
“I want to try to get to Heaven, if possible,” Trump said during an appearance on Fox News’ Fox & Friends, a program favored by the American right.
“I’m hearing that I’m not doing well. I am really at the bottom of the totem pole,” he added, to laughter from the Fox News hosts. “But if I can get to heaven, this will be one of the reasons.”
Asked about the remark at a press briefing later the same day, White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt confirmed the president’s sincerity. “I think the president wants to get to heaven, as I hope we all do in this room as well.”
Source: ANA-MPA
