U.S. President Donald Trump jokingly said on Tuesday that he
would like to be the next pope.
When asked whom he would like to see become the next
Catholic pontiff, Trump told reporters, “I’d like to be pope. That would be my
No. 1 choice.”
The U.S. president said he actually had no preference,
adding, “I must say, we have a cardinal that happens to be out of a place
called New York who’s very good, so we’ll see what happens.”
Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, is not on
the shortlist of possible contenders for the top spot, but it does include
another American—Cardinal Joseph Tobin, Archbishop of Newark, New Jersey.
Recall that Trump and his wife, Melania, traveled to Rome
last weekend to attend the funeral of the first pontiff from Latin America, who
died at the age of 88.
The late Pope Francis and Trump had exchanged criticisms
over the past decade, mostly related to the pope’s plea for compassion for
migrants—a group Trump has repeatedly sought to deport.
About 135 Catholic cardinals
will soon enter a secret conclave to choose the next pope, with no clear
frontrunner in sight.
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