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President Donald Trump on Tuesday joked that helium would like to succeed Pope Francis, who died past week astatine the property of 88.
Trump, asked astir whom he’d like to spot go the next Catholic pontiff, told reporters: “I’d like to be pope. That would beryllium my No. 1 choice.”
Trump noted helium really had nary preference, adding, “I indispensable say, we person a cardinal that happens to beryllium retired of a spot called New York who’s precise good, truthful we’ll spot what happens.”
Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, is not connected the short list of imaginable contenders for the apical spot, but it does see different American, Cardinal Joseph Tobin, archbishop of Newark, New Jersey.
There has ne'er been a pope from the US.
Trump and his woman Melania traveled to Rome past play to be the funeral of the archetypal pontiff from Latin America.
The two men had exchanged criticisms implicit a decade, mostly related to the pope’s plea for compassion for migrants, a group Trump has repeatedly sought to deport.
About 135 Catholic cardinals volition soon beryllium tasked with entering a concealed conclave to take the next pope, with nary wide frontrunner successful sight.
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