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The former president didn’t stop there. He reminded viewers of his past accomplishments in preventing bloodshed, pointing to his diplomacy in South Asia. “Well, I think I saved a lot of lives with India, Pakistan. They were going at it. There were– the planes were being shot down. That was going to be maybe a nuclear war if I let that go,” Trump recalled.
Trump’s comments highlight a theme he’s returned to many times since leaving office: that his foreign policy approach has always been about putting American lives first while forcing adversaries to the negotiating table. “I just want to end it. I want to end it, you know, we’re not losing American lives, we are not losing American soldiers. We are losing Russian and Ukrainian, mostly soldiers, some people as missiles hit wrong spots or get lobbed into cities like Kiev and towns,” he said.
Later that day, Trump posted a lengthy statement on Truth Social, offering more details about his historic White House meeting with top world leaders. “I had a very good meeting with distinguished guests, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, of Ukraine, President Emmanuel Macron, of France, President Alexander Stubb, of Finland, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, of Italy, Prime Minister Keir Starmer, of the United Kingdom, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Friedrich Merz, President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, in the White House, which ended in a further meeting in the Oval Office,” Trump wrote.
According to Trump, the main topic was security guarantees for Ukraine, with Europe taking the lead and the United States coordinating. “Everyone is very happy about the possibility of PEACE for Russia/Ukraine,” he added.
Trump went even further, saying he personally called Putin after the gathering. “At the conclusion of the meetings, I called President Putin, and began the arrangements for a meeting, at a location to be determined, between President Putin and President Zelenskyy,” he explained. “After that meeting takes place, we will have a Trilat, which would be the two Presidents, plus myself.”
The former president framed this as the opening step toward ending a war that has dragged on for nearly four years. He also credited Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff with coordinating directly with both sides.
European leaders echoed Trump’s optimism after the meetings. Zelensky said, “I think that we had a very good conversation with President Trump… it was really good. We spoke about very sensitive points.” Dutch Prime Minister Rutte praised Trump for breaking the diplomatic deadlock with Moscow, telling him, “I really want to thank you, President of the United States, dear Donald, for the fact that you, as I said before, broke the deadlock basically with President Putin by starting the dialogue … From there, here we are today.”
Finland’s Alexander Stubbe went even further, noting how much progress had been made in such a short time. “I think in the past two weeks, we’ve probably had more progress in ending this war than we have in the past three-and-a-half years,” he said.
Trump’s candid admission about Heaven may have caught people off guard, but it underscores how deeply he connects his political mission to personal legacy. Whether in South Asia, the Middle East, or now Eastern Europe, Trump has repeatedly tried to portray himself as the dealmaker capable of saving lives while keeping America out of endless wars.
And if he succeeds in bringing Putin and Zelensky to the same table—something globalists and career diplomats failed to do—he may not just change history. He might also, as he put it, climb a little higher on that “totem pole” toward Heaven.
