President Donald Trump has reportedly been reflecting on how he’ll be remembered.
In a Thursday, January 29 post on Rob Shuter’s Naughty But Nice Substack, a source said the 79-year-old president is “obsessed with how he’ll be remembered.”
The former The Apprentice star also drew attention after sending an email on Sunday, January 25, shortly before 8 p.m., with the subject line: “I want to try and get to Heaven.”
In that message, he referenced surviving the assassination attempt on July 13, 2024, in Pennsylvania, before being reelected.
“I came millimeters from death when that bullet pierced through my skin,” he wrote, according to the Archive of Political Emails.
Shuter’s source also claimed Trump frequently compares himself to historic and religious figures in conversation, saying he brings up “Napoleon, Lincoln, saints — and then himself, in the same breath.”
The post further alleged that Trump has discussed turning Mar-a-Lago into a destination akin to Graceland—the famed home once owned by Elvis Presley—so supporters can visit and commemorate him.
“He wants Mar-a-Lago to be his Graceland,” the source claimed. “A place people visit, revere, and remember him.”
Another person described a mix of humor and unease when Trump talks about the afterlife, saying he “jokes about not qualifying,” but added that the underlying mood is more serious: “He’s rattled. Mortality suddenly feels very real.”
Separately, Fox News personality Jesse Watters recounted Trump discussing the massive new 90,000-square-foot ballroom planned for the White House—a project Watters said replaces the previously demolished East Wing—during Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest conference in Phoenix (via a clip posted to X).
“I don’t know if you know this — the ballroom is huge,” Watters said. He added that Trump described it as a monument meant to outlast his presidency: “It’s a monument. I’m building a monument to myself because no one else will.”
