The US president said he was unsure that resolving the war in Gaza would be enough to earn him a ticket<\/p>\n
US President Donald Trump has suggested that it is unlikely he will end up in heaven despite his efforts to mediate peace between Israel and Hamas.
\nDuring Trump\u2019s flight aboard Air Force One to Israel on Sunday, Fox News\u2019 Peter Doocy asked the president whether ending the war in Gaza would help him get into heaven.
\n\u201cI\u2019m being a little cute,\u201d Trump said, smiling and chuckling. \u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s anything going to get me in heaven. I think I\u2019m not maybe heaven-bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I\u2019m not sure I\u2019m going to be able to make heaven, but I\u2019ve made life a lot better for a lot of people,\u201d he added.
\nTrump then boasted about his negotiating skills, claiming that the conflict between Israel and Hamas would be \u201cthe eighth war that I\u2019ve solved.\u201d
\nOn Monday, Hamas freed the 20 remaining Israeli hostages in exchange for around 2,000 Palestinian prisoners. The Israeli army earlier halted offensive operations and withdrew from parts of the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n
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Later that day, Trump and the leaders of Egypt, Qatar, and T\u00fcrkiye signed a declaration in Sharm el-Sheikh, in Egypt\u2019s Sinai Peninsula, endorsing the ceasefire and a path toward \u201ccomprehensive and durable peace arrangements.\u201d
\nTrump\u2019s 20-point peace plan calls for Gaza to become a \u201cderadicalized terror-free zone.\u201d Although Hamas agreed to the prisoner swap outlined in the plan, it refused to disarm or hand over power in the Palestinian enclave. Israel has so far not committed to a full withdrawal from the strip.
\nTrump\u00a0 was raised Presbyterian and has had a particularly strong base of support among Evangelical Christians throughout his political career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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