Trump jokes he’d like to be pope: ‘Number 1 choice’

President Donald Trump joked on Tuesday with reporters that he “would love Pope” throughout the departure to Michigan, the place he’ll maintain a gathering to have a good time his 100 days again within the Oval Workplace.

“I want to be pope,” Trump joked with a set of reporters when he was requested who he want to see that I might lead the Catholic Church after the loss of life of Pope Francis. “That will be my primary selection,” he continued.

Trump and Zenskyy have talked ‘very productively’ after they attend Pope Francis’s funeral

Donald and Melania Trump on the funeral of Pope Franciscus. (Dan Kitwood/Getty photos)

Pope Francis died Easter Monday on the age of 88 within the midst of steady well being issues. Trump and First Girl Melania Trump attended the funeral on Saturday within the Vatican, the place the president additionally held a personal assembly with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zenskyy.

Conclave to decide on the subsequent pope to start out on Might 7, says Vatican

Pope Franciscus died Easter Monday. (Vatican media through Vatican Pool/Getty photos)

“No, I do not know. I haven’t got a desire. I may say, now we have a cardinal who occurs to be from a spot referred to as New York that is excellent. So we’ll see what occurs,” Trump, who is just not Catholic, continued, referring to Archbishop of the Cardinal Timothy Dolan in New York.

Though it’s unlikely to develop into a Pope, Dolan is among the 10 American cardinals who will vote for Francis’s successor.

Cardinal Dolan offers inside a conclave, the function of the Holy Spirit in deciding on a brand new pope

The Vatican will maintain a papal conclave in Might that the cardinals of the church will gather to decide on the subsequent pope. Each baptized Catholic man is canonically eligible to be pope, however the church has chosen the subsequent pope of the Faculty of Cardinals for hundreds of years, EWTN reported.

Folks stay the funeral mass of Pope Franciscus, on St. Peter’s Sq., on the Vatican, 26 April 2025. (Remo Casilli/Reuters)

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Trump’s feedback got here when he left for Macomb County, Michigan, close to Detroit, to have a good time his a hundredth day again within the Oval Workplace.

Trump has completed every of his three presidential campaigns with conferences within the battlefield state Michigan, together with the tapping of his profitable 2024 marketing campaign in Grand Rapids.