Trump Says He Hopes to Go to Heaven: ‘I Don’t Want to Go to Hell’
In a clip from his 60 Minutes interview with Ross Douthat, President Trump says he hopes he is going to heaven and that he does not want to go to hell.
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President Donald Trump said he hopes he is going to heaven after 60 Minutes correspondent Ross Douthat asked whether he thought he would get there.
“I hope so. I don’t want to go to hell,” Trump replied in a clip from the interview that circulated on Sunday.
Douthat had been talking about the president’s “own mortality” immediately before the question. “Do you think you’re going to heaven?” he asked.
White House Interview
CBS said Douthat interviewed Trump at the White House on Friday, in the Roosevelt Room, in the president’s first sit-down interview since Democrats’ sweeping gains in the midterm elections.
The network said the conversation also covered Republican losses, congressional investigations, the wars in Iran and Ukraine, and the economy. CBS’s written preview of the program did not mention the exchange about heaven and hell.
60 Minutes is scheduled to air the interview on Sunday at 7 p.m. Eastern on CBS and Paramount+. The program said an extended version would be published on YouTube later Sunday night.
Several posts sharing the clip summarized Trump’s answer as “I don’t want to go to hell. I hope I go to heaven.” In the recording itself, he answers the heaven question with “I hope so,” then adds that he does not want to go to hell.
CBS reported that Democrats had picked up more than 40 House seats, with more than two dozen races still uncalled, and seven Senate seats, with the contests in Mississippi and Alaska too close to call, when Douthat sat down with Trump days after those projected results.
Earlier Remarks on the Afterlife
Sunday’s answer fits a longer pattern of Trump discussing heaven and hell in interviews, often in cautious or joking terms.
On Air Force One in October 2025, he told reporters he was “not sure” he would “be able to make heaven” and suggested he was “not maybe Heaven-bound,” according to CNN, after earlier linking a possible Ukraine peace agreement to his chances of getting there.
He has also said on Fox & Friends, “I want to try and get to heaven, if possible.” In a 2015 interview with GQ, asked a similar question, he answered, “I hope so. That’s what I strive for.”
The latest clip circulated the same day Trump called renewed U.S. strikes on Iran “highly unlikely” if nuclear talks advanced, said Task Force Iron Gate was in full force against Iran, and, according to Axios, urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to move his Gaza peace plan forward.
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