In the email, Trump said God saved him during the July 2024 assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, and asked supporters for $15 donations.
By Jordan Liles
Claim:
An August 2025 email from one of U.S. President Donald Trump's political action committees asked for $15 donations and began,"I want to try and get to heaven."
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In late August 2025, online users claimed an official fundraising email from U.S. President Donald Trump asked for $15 donations and began, "I want to try and get to heaven." Snopes received reader emails about this matter, and users also searched our website for information.
One X user shared a screenshot of the purported message, and wrote (archived), "Trump sent out an email at 8 am this morning saying 'I want to try and get to heaven.' Pretty weird to send out when you're trying to reassure people that you're healthy!"
The user created the post on Aug. 30 during Labor Day weekend — the same time social media users widely shared a false rumor that Trump had died, as we previously
An official, Trump-led political action committee truly sent the email with the "get to heaven" subject line, in which he asked supporters for $15 donations. In the message, Trump said God saved him during the July 2024 assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, and told supporters to "never surrender."
Several different screenshots of the email helped to confirm the message as authentic. The PoliticalEmails.org website — a website that archives political emails — also hosted the message with three sending dates: Aug. 23 (archived), Aug. 25 (archived) and Sept. 2 (archived).
The email displayed the "from" email address of
contact@win.donaldjt rump.com, featuring the official, Trump-owned website domain donaldjtrump.com. The message's footer read, in part, "Paid by Never Surrender, Inc." Earlier in August, Politico labeled Never Surrender as Trump's primary leadership PAC. (Never Surrender is also the name of a Minnesota-based charity with no affiliation to the Trump PAC.)
Trump spoke the same "get to heaven" phrase days earlier during an Aug. 19 phone interview with the hosts of the Fox News morning TV show "Fox & Friends." While discussing the prospect of saving soldiers and citizens from being killed in Ukraine-Russia war, as well as other conflicts, Trump said the following (emphasis ours):
If I can save 7,000 people a week from being killed, I think that's a pretty … I want to try and get to heaven, if possible. I'm hearing I'm not doing well. I mean, I'm really at the bottom of the totem pole. But if I can get to heaven, this will be one of the reasons.
Trump's full 'get to heaven' email
The PoliticalEmails.org website the full Trump fundraising email. The message featured the unfounded claim of a "rigged 2020 election," as well as other evidence-free claims. The email read as follows:
Friend,
I want to try and get to Heaven.
Last year I came millimeters from death when that bullet pierced through my skin. My triumphant return to the White House was never supposed to happen!
But I believe that God saved me for one reason: TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
I wasn't supposed to beat Crooked Hillary in 2016 — but I did.
I wasn't supposed to secure the border & build the greatest economy in history — but I did.
I certainly wasn't supposed to survive an assassin's bullet — but by the grace of the almighty God, I did.
SO NOW, I have no other choice but to answer the Call to Duty, but I can't do it alone.
Friend, you've been with me through everything.
You were there when they launched: the Russia Hoax, the first Impeachment, the second Impeachment, the rigged 2020 election, the Raid on Mar-a-Lago, the Arrest and Mugshot at the Fulton County Jail, the Removal from the CO ballot, the sham cases in DC / FL / NY / DC, the first Assassination attempt, the second Assassination attempt, and so much more!
Just because I won in a HISTORIC landslide and have unleashed the Golden Age of America, THAT DOESN'T MEAN WE CAN TAKE OUR FOOT OFF THE GAS!
The forces that hate our country don't want a secure border or safe cities or high paying jobs. The Radical Left Lunatics want to STOP MAGA, but we're not going to let them NO MATTER WHAT.
Let me make this SOLEMN PLEDGE to you: I WILL NEVER SURRENDER!
I put my life on the line willingly because this is what I was made to do, but our movement, the beautiful MAGA movement, is powered by YOU.
Every time they count us out – count YOU out – we come back bigger, better, and stronger than ever before.
This is our moment to show the world that we will NEVER back down, NEVER give an inch, and NEVER SURRENDER in our fight to save this country.
That's why I've launched a 24 HOUR TRUMP FUNDRAISING BLITZ, and I'm asking everyone to chip in $15 to make it one for the record books!
So if you're with me all the way to the end, join with MILLIONS of your fellow PATRIOTS by chipping in $15 to keep the wins rolling in! >
GIVE $15STAND WITH TRUMP
Sincerely,Donald John Trump
STAND WITH TRUMP
Paid for by Never Surrender, Inc. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate authorized's committee. www.donaldjtrump.com.