The United States is “missing a lot of religion,” former President Donald Trump said during an interview with podcaster Lex Fridman, which debuted on Tuesday.
“One of the tragic things about life is that it ends. How often do you think about your death? Are you afraid of it?” Fridman asked Trump during the interview.
“I have a friend who’s very, very successful, and he’s in his 80s, mid 80s, and he asked me the exact same question. I said, I turned it around. I said, ‘Well, what about you?’ He said, ‘I think about it every minute of every day,'” Trump said of his friend, ultimately explaining that people of faith have an easier time dealing with that thought.
“And then a week later, he called me to tell me something. And he starts off the conversation by going, tick, tock, tick. This is just dark. It’s a dark person, you know, in a sense, but it is what it is,” Trump said.
