Does Heaven exist? And if so, is Donald Trump going to get in?

In the last year, President Trump has been publicly musing about the afterlife and his place in it with increasing regularity. No one really knows why we’re suddenly seeing this metaphysical side of Trump — is it age, health issues, surviving assassination attempts, glimmers of deeply suppressed guilt for his many sins? Whatever the reason, Trump keeps giving updates on his current odds of getting into Heaven, which seem to fluctuate a lot.

Honestly, all of these questions are beyond Intelligencer’s purview. The only solid information we can share is what Trump himself has said about the ultimate fate of his soul. Below, we will provide ongoing coverage of this important developing news story, which you can share with your pastor, rabbi, theology professor, Reiki healer, or extremely religious aunt for further discussion.

At 42, Trump’s concept of the afterlife was pretty hazy, and he didn’t seem all that concerned about where he’s headed. Here’s what he told Glenn Plaskin when he asked him if he was worried about his own mortality in a 1989 profile for the Chicago Tribune:

Seven years ago, Donald Trump remembers, he gazed at his $200 million Trump Tower and thought to himself: “I’ll be 36 next year and I’ll have done everything I can do… . Sometimes, I think it was a mistake to have raced through it all so fast… .”

Was it?

“I don’t know,” he answers thoughtfully, near the end of a long day.

“What’s the next level up? The grass isn’t always greener… . I might try a different step. Right now, I’m genuinely enjoying myself. I work and I don’t worry.”

Not even about death. “No. I’m fatalistic and I protect myself as well as anybody can. I prepare for things. But ultimately we all end up going.”

Heading upstairs for dinner with his children, Donald Trump looks back, hesitating, wanting to finish: “No. I don’t believe in reincarnation, Heaven or hell — but we go someplace.”

“Do you know,” he says, “I cannot, for the life of me, figure out where.”

A year later in a Playboy interview, Trump said that “Life is what you do while you’re waiting to die. You know, it is all a rather sad situation.”

Asked if he meant life or death, Trump continued:

Both. We’re here and we live our sixty, seventy or eighty years and we’re gone. You win, you win, and in the end, it doesn’t mean........

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