Trump Discusses Mortality, Heaven, Hell, and UFOs in CBS 60 Minutes Interview

US President Donald Trump’s interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes took an unexpected turn when correspondent Ross Douthat raised questions about mortality and death as the Republican leader has survived multiple assassination attempts in his second term. During the Sunday interview, Douthat asked the 80-year-old Trump whether surviving the assassination attempts had changed the way he viewed his own mortality before posing a direct question: “What do you think happens when you die?” The president took a pause and said, “Well, I hope I’m missed.” “Well, I’m a religious person, so in theory, I go to heaven,” the president said. “I hope so. I don’t want to go to hell.” Douthat then asked Trump whether he could forgive his political foes for the sake of entering heaven. “Let’s say you pass away, you’re entering the next life, and all you have to do to enter paradise is feel love and forgiveness for James Comey, Nancy Pelosi, anyone who you have expressed hate for over the years. Do you think you can do it?” Trump responded saying, “The answer is no. I want to be honest, no.” “I probably cannot do that, no, because I do hate some of my enemies and always will.” Trump then said that questions about unidentified flying objects (UFOs), are among the most frequent queries he receives. He recalled meeting highly experienced Air Force pilots during his first and second terms in the White House, saying they shared some unusual accounts about UFOs. “I’m not too much of a believer, but I sat in the Oval Office, first term and a little bit second term, meeting with Air Force pilots that are really good, solid people. These are not people that you would say are conspiracy theorists. They don’t even know what it means,” he said. “But they’re great, great pilots. Young, handsome. They have beautiful, nice flat tops. I’d like to have a haircut just like them. They look perfect, like Tom Cruise. … They’re thin, you know, very thin and very everything. And … they’re the real deal. And they’ve told me things that are very strange,” the US president said.