President Donald Trump recently made a surprising admission about his prospects for the afterlife, expressing doubt about ever reaching heaven. While speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday, Trump was asked about previous remarks concerning his views on life after death.

In August, he claimed his efforts to broker a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine were motivated by his desire to get into heaven. ‘I’m being a little cute,’ Trump said, referencing his previous comments. ‘I don’t think there’s anything going to get me in heaven.

‘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.’ Trump paused before adding, ‘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.’

He went on to bash former President Joe Biden for allowing Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine , adding that ‘millions’ of people would be alive today ‘had the election of 2020 not been rigged.’ The president made these comments while flying to Israel to oversee the release of the remaining Israeli hostages, ending a bloody two-year war that has rocked the Gaza region.

At 79, Trump stands out as one of the few U.S. presidents to openly speculate about his potential eternal fate before the public. Throughout his career, both in politics and as a New York real estate tycoon, Trump has frequently touched upon themes of damnation and the afterlife.

Following the July assasination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, Trump reaffirmed his belief in a heaven and hell. ‘I do [believe in heaven],’ Trump said in an interview with Fox News. ‘If I’m good, I’m going to heaven. And if I’m bad, I’m going someplace else.’

‘Well, I pray for our country. I pray, obviously. I pray for the same thing you pray—our family and our country,’ he added, ‘and I guess we have a world. I pray for the world too.’ During the early 1990s, Trump described himself as non-religious and often distanced himself from Christian doctrine.

‘I don’t believe in reincarnation, heaven or hell—but we go someplace,’ the future president told Playboy in 1990. ‘Do you know, I cannot, for the life of me, figure out where.’ Over two decades later Trump had reconciled his difference with Christianity and described himself a church-goer.

During the start of his Republican presidential campaign in 2015, Trump suggested the presidency may be his only ticket to God’s kingdom. ‘So go out and spread the word and once I get in [to the White House], I will do my thing that I do very well,’ Trump told a large crowd of evangelical pastors in Orlando, according to Time. ‘And I figure it’s probably maybe the only way I’m going to get to heaven. So I better do a good job.’