WATCH: Trump says he ‘maybe should get’ to heaven in wide-ranging remarks during National Prayer Breakfast

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that his previous hints that he might reach heaven at night were actually just a joke.

Watch the full National Prayer Breakfast, including the President’s address, in the video player above.

In his speech at the National Prayer Breakfast, he blamed the media for writing down his exact words about the afterlife, suggesting that his sense of sarcasm did not appear in the reports.

It’s a tactic Trump often uses when his comments cause a stir he wasn’t expecting, and he tries to tone them down without suggesting he might have misspoken.

“I was just having fun,” Trump said of his previous comments.

He added of Heaven: “I really think I should probably succeed. I mean I’m not a perfect candidate, but I’ve done a lot of good for perfect people.”

Trump describes a Republican representative as an “idiot”

He was talking about Republican Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky, who sometimes votes against the party.

Early in his remarks Thursday, Trump turned to the topic of legislation and said Republicans usually band together after some attempts — all of them, he said, except Massie.

“No matter what we do, that moron, no matter who he is,” Trump complained.

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“We’ll get a 100 percent vote except for this guy named Thomas Massey. There’s something wrong with him.”

Massie, a libertarian-leaning actor, has drawn the president’s ire for saying he lacks the authority to attack Iranian nuclear sites without congressional approval, voting against Trump’s massive tax and spending cuts bill and fighting for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Trump says he doesn’t sleep on long-haul flights

Trump recalls a previous trip to Iraq during his first term, where he said he didn’t like to sleep on long flights.

“I don’t sleep on planes. I don’t like sleeping on planes,” he told the audience at the National Prayer Breakfast.

“You know, I like to look out the window and watch for missiles and enemies, actually,” the president added.

Trump also often takes long trips abroad to speak with his advisors, posts things on his social media site, and frequently heads to the press booth to answer reporters’ questions.