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Saturday, May 3, 2025
White House posts image of Trump as pope
The official White House account posts an image of US President Donald Trump as pope.
The apparently AI-generated image, originally on Trump’s Truth Social account, is reposted by the White House on the X social network.
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) May 3, 2025
The Trump administration has a number of high-profile Catholics in prominent positions, including US President JD Vance.
Last week, Trump, asked about whom he’d like to see become the next Catholic pontiff, told reporters: “I’d like to be pope. That would be my No. 1 choice.”
Trump noted 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 short list of possible contenders for the top spot, but it does include another American, Cardinal Joseph Tobin, archbishop of Newark, New Jersey. There has never been a pope from the US.
Trump and his wife Melania traveled to Rome last month to attend the funeral of Pope Francis.
The two men had exchanged criticisms over a decade, mostly related to the pope’s plea for compassion for migrants, a group Trump has repeatedly sought to deport.
The Times of Israel Community.