Trump Won’t Fake His Way Into Heaven
President Trump sat down with Ross Douthat for 60 Minutes and delivered the kind of unfiltered answer that drives the left crazy. Asked about death after surviving multiple assassination attempts, including one that came very close, Trump said he hopes he goes to heaven.
“I’m a religious person, so in theory I go to heaven,” he told Douthat. “I hope so. I don’t want to go to hell.”
Then Douthat pressed the real question. He brought up Erica Kirk’s remarks on Christian forgiveness at Charlie Kirk’s memorial and Trump’s own line that he hates his opponents and doesn’t want the best for them. The interviewer asked if Trump could feel love and forgiveness for James Comey, Nancy Pelosi, and the rest of his enemies if that was the price of paradise.
Trump didn’t take the easy out..
“Well, then I wouldn’t be real, would I?” he said. “I found them to be extremely dishonest people, very bad people, very bad for our country. I love our country far more than I can love people and people like that.”
When Douthat asked straight out if the answer was no, Trump confirmed it.
“The answer is no. I want to be honest.”
Douthat pushed harder, noting Trump’s remarkable life and asking if he could forgive before the judgment throne of God. Trump refused to pretend.
“Honestly, can I be honest? I probably cannot do that, no. Because I do hate some of my enemies and I always will.”