National Prayer Breakfast speech… “It’s not perfect, but I’ll probably go to heaven.”
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(Washington = Yonhap News) Correspondent Park Seong-min = U.S. President Donald Trump announced on the 5th (local time) that an agreement to end the war in Ukraine has almost been reached.
“We’re working hard to end that whole war,” President Trump said in a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast held in Washington, D.C., “We’re very close to ending it. We’re almost there.”
President Trump has consistently shown confidence in ending the war in Ukraine, but today is attracting attention because the second meeting between the United States, Russia, and Ukraine to end the war was held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Although the three-party negotiations today did not reach an agreement to end the war, progress is being made, including an agreement to exchange 314 prisoners of war between Russia and Ukraine, and additional talks are scheduled to be held in the near future.
In his speech that day, President Trump also blatantly disparaged his predecessor, former President Joe Biden, and proudly listed the achievements he had achieved in the first year since taking office in his second term.
“Other countries laughed at us and took advantage of us with tariffs,” he said of the Biden administration. “Now we can impose tariffs. I hope we get a Supreme Court decision like that (allowing tariffs), because we’re making hundreds of billions of dollars.”
President Trump’s comments can be interpreted as a subtle pressure to hope that the Supreme Court’s ongoing hearing on the illegality of reciprocal tariffs (tariffs by country) will conclude that the application of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), which he used when imposing tariffs, is legal.
President Trump said in a past interview with the media that he was “just for fun” when he said he couldn’t go to heaven, and that “actually, I think I probably could go to heaven.” He then claimed that he is not a perfect person, but that he has done a tremendous amount of good for perfect people.
Previously, President Trump often mentioned heaven.
In a Fox News interview last August, he said he wanted to save people by ending the war in Ukraine and said, “I want to try and go to heaven if possible.” In October of the same year, he told reporters on the presidential plane heading to Israel, “I don’t think I’ll ever go to heaven. I probably won’t go to heaven.”
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