Trump: ‘Trying to Get to Heaven, Hearing I’m Not Doing Well’

As he tries to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine, President Donald Trump said it is for greater reasons than merely Nobel Peace Prize nominations: He is hoping it helps him “get to heaven.”

“If I can save 7,000 people per week from being killed – I want to get to heaven, if possible; I’m hearing I’m not doing well,” Trump said in a televised phone interview Tuesday morning. “If I can get to heaven, this will be a reason.”

Trump briefly left the European leaders in the White House Oval Office to call Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Monday – and Putin answered eagerly at 1 a.m. his local time – to discuss the urgency of the next step of Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy doing a 1-on-1 with his 3 1/2-year war counterpart.

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