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You had talked a couple weeks ago, you were doing an interview and you talked about how you hope to end the war in Ukraine because it might help you get into heaven. How does this help?

Does this help?

I mean, you know, I'm being a little cute.

I don't think there's anything going to get me in heaven.

Okay, I'm really, I think I'm not maybe heaven bound.

I'm maybe in heaven right now as we fly in 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.

And, you know, as an example, had the election of 2020 not been rigged, you would have millions of people living just in Russia, Ukraine alone.

That's President Trump responding to a question from Peter Deucy of Fox News aboard Air Force One en route to Israel.

So this isn't the first time that the president has talked about heaven or talked about

religious matters, although he seems a little ham-fisted and out of his element when he does.

Welcome back to Issues Cedar. I'm Todd Wilkin, joining us to talk about media coverage of

President Trump's recent comments about heaven.

Terry Mattingly, senior fellow on communications and culture at St. Constantine College in Houston, Texas.

He writes Rational Sheep, a substack newsletter on faith, family, and mass media.

He's author of the National On Religion column for the Andrews McBeal Universal Syndicate.

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