Overview
- The unplanned appearance happened Friday at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, where Trump greeted the couple before turning to Eric Metaxas.
- “He's going to get me to heaven,” Trump said while shaking Metaxas’s hand, according to footage Metaxas shared on social media.
- Metaxas replied that he wanted to discuss the topic another time and later wrote that a wedding was not the place for that conversation.
- Reaction online ranged from Christians urging an immediate gospel exchange to critics calling the moment inappropriate.
- The exchange extends a recent pattern in which Trump has publicly questioned whether he will get into heaven, including remarks in August and on Air Force One in October.