Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday, our President discounted his chances of getting to Heaven.
He was on his way to Israel to participate in a signing ceremony — an agreement between Hamas and Israel that promised the release of numerous hostages and prisoners, as part of a possible deal that could end the war between Hamas and Israel.
One of the reporters wondered if a successful peace deal might increase the President’s chances of getting into Heaven.
The President chuckled.
From People Magazine:
“I don’t think there’s anything going to get me in heaven. Okay. I really don’t. I think I’m not maybe heaven-bound.
“I may be in heaven right now as we fly on 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…”
The President had referred to Heaven earlier, back in August, when he was trying to broker a deal to end the war between Russia and Ukraine.
“I want to try to get to heaven, if possible,” the President said on ‘Fox & Friends’. “I’m hearing I’m not doing well. I am really at the bottom of the totem pole. But if I can get to heaven, this will be one of the reasons.”
Nothing came of his dealmaking efforts in August. But the Hamas-Israel deal seems a bit more promising, in terms of heavenly favors.
I have to wonder, though… where had the President heard that he’s “not doing well”… in terms of eventually passing through the Pearly Gates.
Has he heard this from his advisors? I sorta doubt that.
From the Democrats? Or from his wife?
Maybe… in conversations with God Himself?
“Donald, you’re making America great again, just like you promised, and I’m granting you Brownie points for that. But you screwed up with the Stormy Daniels affair, and you got yourself convicted. 34 felony counts, Donald. Not good.
“The New York corporate fraud case, and the E. Jean Carrol sexual assault case. Then you went and bad-mouthed Ms. Carroll afterwards, and lost the defamation suit.
“And all those classified documents stashed in your bathroom at Mar-a-Lago.
“You hung around with Jeffrey Epstein, and sent him a dirty birthday card. How do you think the angels would feel about that, if we were to let you in?
“But that’s not all, Donald.
“You pardoned the January 6 insurrectionists. All of them. And you let the Russians get involved in the 2016 election. Yes, I know Mueller screwed up the investigation and Barr painted the report as a vindication, but you and I know what really went on.
“I know what you’re going to tell me. That your work on the Russia-Ukraine deal could have saved a lot of lives. Nice try, but no banana.
“Now you’re bragging about the Hamas-Israel ceasefire. Let’s get real, Donald — you’re two years too late. If you’d managed to get a ceasefire in 2023 — now, that would have been something big. Coulda saved 70,000 lives.
“What were you doing instead? Playing golf.
“And worst of all: the tariffs. Did you really think you could impose those tariff on everyone — even on the penguins — and still get into Heaven? Don’t make me laugh!”
I don’t have any evidence, of course, that the President ever had a conversation like this with our Heavenly Father. But I also don’t have an evidence to the contrary.
All we really know is what the President said on Air Force One.
I can’t prove the following video clip isn’t a ‘deep fake’ created by AI — but I don’t know if that really matters, because the President says stuff like this all the time.
This brief clip is taken from a longer video posted by Forbes magazine, but the rest of the video has nothing to do with getting into Heaven. So why bother?
If I were God… which I’m not… but if I were, I would invite the President into Heaven and give him four years to make Heaven great again. If he can do it down here, I bet he can do it up there.
Sure, a few crimes might get committed along the way, but you gotta expect that.
Underrated writer Louis Cannon grew up in the vast American West, although his ex-wife, given the slightest opportunity, will deny that he ever grew up at all. You can read more stories on his Substack account.