— The White House (@WhiteHouse) May 3, 2025What is he trying to say? I see "White House posts AI image of Trump as pope/'I’d like to be pope,' Trump jokingly told reporters this week, soon after attending the funeral of Pope Francis in Rome" (Politico):
When asked who should succeed Francis, Trump told a reporter on Tuesday: “I have no preference,” after joking that “I’d like to be pope.” Trump said he himself would be his “number one choice.” He then added: “I must say, we have a cardinal that happens to be out of a place called New York who’s very good.”
The AI-generated picture has been met with some amusement as well as criticism, with a large swath of social media users seeing it as a clear insult to the just-deceased pontiff....
Well, it seems pretty simple. Someone asked him who should be the next Pope. He made an offhand comment, which makes some sense, in that he feels capable of running things and he knows himself and doesn't know much about the various cardinals. Then someone made the AI image, and he passed it on because it was funny and provocative. It's something to think about and to distract us from other things. Look, here I am posting it first thing this morning instead of something else. It will get his haters running down a blind alley. An insult to the just-deceased pontiff? How is it an insult? The President of the United States is essentially saying there is one job in the world that's a step up from mine.
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At least as Pope, he’d stop funding illegal immigration.
It's funny. He is humorous, yet knows it will make Progressives melt down.....AGAIN!!!
I’m not sure he’d like the whole celibacy thing.
Except for that pesky Catholic part, he'd make a great pope. DOGE up the Vatican finances, please.
"I want to be Pope" - Ralph Wiggam
"with a large swath of social media users seeing it as a clear insult to the just-deceased pontiff...."
It's best to think of TDS sufferers as female teenagers. Everything is dire, everything is wrong, and everybody 'doesn't understand the absolute, reeking horror of it all'. You just have to be a responsible adult and ignore the rampaging hormones and the drama.
President/Pope? It could work… a sort of Player/Manager… like Pete Rose.
It could be a beautiful thing, this I can tell you.
Saw your smoke! Now you're Pope! Congrats! - Mary Ann Madden unlikely greeting card contest
Trump, like early Limbaugh, is a prankster.
His haters are the ones who feel entitled to run things and raid the treasury. It’s healthy to provoke them into rage…
Wasn't Harry Truman the one who commented that the problem with the job of President was that "there's no room for advancement"? He just didn't have Trump's imagination.
Infallibility, which is nice.
Kate: "DOGE up the Vatican finances, please."
The Curia would certainly love to have Big Balls running around!
JSM
Catholicism would profit by bringing back the anti-Pope. The two could spend their time arguing the minutiae of Christian theology, such as the Biblical foundation of the papacy, while everyday Catholics could get on with living Christian lives.
Trump for anti-Pope! Instead of Avignon and its famous bridge, his seat could be Mar-a-Lago and its famous golf course. Better climate, fewer Frenchmen.
The whole institution of the Vicar of Christ is problematic. Popes like Rodrigo Borgia must make one wonder.
The Dems should just laugh along with the rest of us, but they won’t. Too huffy for their own good.
Heh. Fewer dumb economic policies, more amusing memes.
“huffy”… is that what you call their psychotic behavior and incomprehensible gibberish?
Anti-Pope Donald I could issue an encyclical on the theology of golf, Ridiculi duffers nati sumus omnes
I agree with Kate. The Vatican could use a good DOGING.
When you're Pope they let you grab them by the rosaries.
He prays on the golf course. HIS golf course.
hoc sursum et deorsum posside et ego te conversari
The vast majority go through life just trying to shoot par. God knows knows just how absurd my putting looks, yet He still loves this worthless hacker. The important thing is honest scoring and finishing with a smile.
+2 tcrosse!
The one job that's a step up from the presidency reminds me of the joke (https://www.jokebuddha.com/joke/The_Pope_Driving) with the punchline "I don't know but he has the Pope DRIVING for him!"
Who was it who sings:
“Poor man wanna be rich
Rich man wanna be king
And a king ain't satisfied
'Til he rules everything,”?
Maybe Trump just wants go out tonight and find out what he’s got.
He prayed like a Roman, orange hair on fire, oh noes!
You need only three miracles to be a saint, one of which must not be a card trick.
It's too much. I like Trump and think he's hilarious, but he's getting to be that guy on staff who makes everything about himself.
Oh no - this joke will send the left into a nuclear tizzy.
“Who was it who sings”?
Leon Redbone?
Iman: "He prayed like a Roman, orange hair on fire, oh noes!"
We're gonna rev up the motor scooters!
JSM
Working on sainthood. Federal government spending down 5%. It’s a miracle! One more to go, unless you count the Abraham Accords, which you should.
You need only three miracles to be a saint...
The Bullet Catch alone should be enough to get Penn & Teller canonized.
What about the Miracle of the 39th Parallel? Doesn't that count?
“ “Who was it who sings”?
Leon Redbone?”
No, Iman - I’m pretty sure it’s Ry Cooder.
Ah more stray voltage but, again, without the sinister intent Obama employed. I'm sure one of his brilliant staff read the NYT column yesterday advising the crazy left to "calm down" and choose their battles better (ie "stop fighting for the wrong side of 80/20 and 90/10 issues, please!"). Then, whoever it was said, "You think that made them freak, check this out!"
Francis of Assisi managed to calm a wolf. Donald of Queens quelled a maniac with nukes.
“Huffy” is just one of many appropriate adjectives for the left, imho, Imam.
Iman bringing the Steely Dan lyrics to the party! Nice!
He’d probably appoint Father Guido Sarducci as chief Papal Nuncio.
I told you so but you wouldn't listen! Trump will break the law and defy the Constitution by forcing his way into the Papacy, seizing a Third Term as President, invading Greenland and Canada, delivering Ukraine to Putin in exchange for mineral rights and exclusive access to Ukrainian Models, banning abortions and eliminating Social Security and Medicare. And your Food Banks will serve only Big Macs and Diet Coke.
"I’m not sure he’d like the whole celibacy thing."
If you're Pope, you can end the whole celibacy thing, for yourself and for all the priests.
In his own unique way Trump is saying, "Fucketh thee" to all those who tried and keep trying to impeach him, lawfare him, kill him, or just don't get him. And as the holiest man of peace ever, he's doing it in Latin with just the papal index finger.
Almost as powerful as a District Court Judge!
Back in 2021, I wrote: "I saw Patrick Sky in concert once.... I remember him launching into a song I'd never heard before: 'There's a man who lives over the ocean/And who has got a great notion/That he is the World's Greatest Hope/He's Giovanni Montini, the Pope." This got huge laughs. It ended: "Giovanni Montini/You know who I meanee/The one with the beanie! Giovanni Montini, the Pope.'"
When Josie comes home
So good
She's the pride of the neighborhood
She's the raw flame
The live wire
She prays like a Roman
With her eyes on fire
"Josie" by Becker and Fagan, off Steely Dan's 1977 album Aja
"The one with the beanie!"
Let's not sneer at the one thing Jews and Catholics can agree on.
Sending a signal to Brooks that he is a pagan.
You need only three miracles to be a saint, one of which must not be a card trick.
Technically, it depends on the exact nature of the card trick.
Topic adjacent - doc on the making of Aja:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL324F104A39F16841
JSM
If you're Pope, you can end the whole celibacy thing, for yourself and for all the priests. Although technically true, it would surely be more complicated than that in practice. However, if asked, I have a feeling that Trump might say, “quickly, I’d end that quickly.“
The best of the best, Mike (MJB Wolf)!
if Trump were Pope, it would change the meaning of the phrase, “is the pope Catholic?“
Pope Clownus the First 🤡
As usual, it's an insult to the people who voted for him.
A great album, JSM. “Black Cow” is my fave off of it. You can’t get much better than that!
As usual, Prince got there first:
Oh, your car got mags that be dippy dippy dope
But the whole damn nation got the same
Honey only flock to the bee that's the Pope
Not the President with government lame
Put me on a slow movin'
Parliamentary hackin' bandwagon
You could put me little ass in the grave
Everytime you want it I'll be live, bring a date
I mean computer when it's over press save
So you can be the President (You can be the President)
(Kick it)
I'd rather be the Pope (Rather be the Pope)
(I'd rather be, so happy)
Yeah, you can be the side effect (You can be the side effect)
I'd rather be the dope (Rather be the dope)
(I ain't scared of you motherfuckers)
(Kick it)
An insult? At least he's not wearing a blue suit!
Trump is thinking the Vatican can be the 51st state, now that Canada has turned him down. Is the Pope Catholic? No, he’s Donald Trump, the “first” Pagan Pope.
Is Melania behind this? She’s a practicing Catholic, so can’t divorce him, but Pope Trump could grant her an annulment. Eventually everyone associated with Donald Trump wants an annulment. The problem is getting the Cardinals to vote for him. Be ready for Trump to claim that the Pope election was stolen from him.
So — it would be orange smoke?
The Vatican is a trifle too austere for Trump's taste. A little bit of gilt framing would work wonders to brighten up the Sistine Chapel.
"Orange smoke" well there was a pony in the shitpile today!
Trump has a lot of Catholic supporters, and not just because of his position on abortion and appointment of Supreme Court Justices. I think there are a lot less offensive ways to troll the left than this way.
Another Trump troll. Leftmedia and Democrats soil themselves.
You can tell a person's politics by which Trump statements are taken seriously and which are not. Nobody takes it all seriously. Hell, you can't even do that with what AI tells you.
Foil Arms and Hog have a great Irish Pope bit. You know where to look.
Seems like a good time to recommend a reading of "Earthly Powers" to those who haven't already. Echoes and overtones galore of recent topics here.
Two of my Catholic sisters are going nuts over this; both Dems.
”after joking that “I’d like to be pope.” Trump said he himself would be his “number one choice.”
I don't understand how NBC, WaPo or the NYT can never determine whether Trump is lying but can say with certainty when he is joking.
“Another Trump troll. Leftmedia and Democrats soil themselves.”
Two Corinthians walk into a bar...
Barry Dauphin said...
if Trump were Pope, it would change the meaning of the phrase, “is the pope Catholic?“
No. Just a continuation of the answer during Francis’ time as Pope.
Everything Trump does or says is cause for his haters to spew their noxious bile. As for me, I generally get a chuckle out of his obvious efforts to "epater les Trumpophobes."
It’s Springsteen. From “Badlands”.
That anyone, including an actual pope, would do anything other than be amused by the TrumPope image, is beyond comprehension.
Habemus maga.
Kak and a grasshopper walk into a bar.
The bartender says, "Hey! We have a drink named after you!"
Kak asks, "You have a drink named kak?"
The bartender says, “No, asshole. We have a drink named “grasshopper.”
I'm still rooting for Father Guido Sarduccj
John Henry
Trump is the People and our [unPlanned] Posterity's representative who will Make America Great Again.
We had more than enough of the unplanned posterior Biden.
Holy American Republic... matey.
Paul Zrimsek said...
“Habemus maga.“
gloriosus!
Made me think of when Gretchen Whitmer posted that video of her feeding a woman a Dorito chip as if it were communion. The Dorito chip one seemed in slightly worse taste than this one but I can't say I was or am bothered by either.
AI really does have its uses!
My guess is that most of the people who think the "Trump as Pope" picture is disrespectful to Catholics are disrespectful to Catholics as a matter of course.
How about Trump as an ayatollah instead?
That would really get the lefties running in circles!
“See! See! He’s an evil mullah! Oh wait….”
JSM
You have to admit gold is Trump's color, and outlandish dress suits him.
How does Trump as Pope “make sense”? He’s both unfit and unqualified. Oh, wait; it’s just like his presidency.
"The Vatican is a trifle too austere for Trump's taste. A little bit of gilt framing would work wonders to brighten up the Sistine Chapel."
The Sistine Chapel is low-rent compared to the Borgia Apartments.
How does Trump as Pope “make sense”? He’s both unfit and unqualified
…neither is true sharon. You just don’t like him…
yah, the whole vatican thing is his aesthetic…
I am a devout Catholic and laughed out loud as soon as I saw this. Can't wait to see some of my friends at Mass tomorrow to hear if there is any real outrage brewing. I doubt there will be, but the Roman Catholic Church is a big tent so there is some TDS sufferers. I pray for them often.
Sharon simpers, "Oh, wait; it’s just like his presidency."
The rapier wit of the Viscount de Valvert.
For Sharon's instruction: On the matter of Trump's papal qualifications, he's as qualified as anyone because there are none. According to dogma, the College of Cardinals selects the Bishop of Roman according to the dictat of Holy Spirit. How they ascertain the Divine Will is secret. It's all a matter of private prayer, or that's what Catholics ought to believe, whatever the truth is. God is free to select anyone He chooses, so the pope need not be an elderly Italian priest, or a man, or even a Roman Catholic.
Now it’s little boys’ turn to dread being grabbed by Trump.
Wicked, Earnest Prole, very wicked.
As usual, it's an insult to the people who voted for him.
I can say with great certainty, I'm not insulted in the least. And I highly doubt anybody else is, either, because we know it's a joke.
But your mindreading has always been spot-on, so don't let me stop you.
I thought a papal blessing was done with two fingers together, not just the index.
Just wait until Sharon hears the rumor Trump wants a 3rd term as Pope AND to become the Dictator-Vicar Of Rome AND that Trump is colluding with Putin to cheat in the voting process AND that instead of a nice cup of Sleepy Time Papal Tea at night Trump intends to install the biggest, longest, most amazing-est red sash attached to a bell at the Vatican 7-11 so that every time he pulls it a Diet Coke is delivered!
I mean, if thats not impeachable, what is?
And don't get me started on how Trump will use DOGE to make the confessional lines 47% more efficient by streamlining sins into coherent categories for rapid reference and mitigation.
The College of Cardinals could do worse — and probably will.
It’s funny. If you don’t find it funny, you never had to endure CCD as a kid.
I wonder which fit and qualified candidate Sharon voted for.
There needs to be a Make the Vatican Great Again slogan on the mitre.
If the Catholics were a serious people, they might have stuck with Latin mass, fish on Friday, and greasing up altar boys. Oh yeah, and selecting actual Catholics to be pope.
As a cradle catholic who had to learn latin to serve mass in the 50's, I laughed out loud at this. But I was glad I was outside of range of DT and the lightning.
Many Popes were pretty evil.
First Pope to be impeached under the Code of Canon Law
I don't understand Ms. Althouse's desire to contextualize this man. It's ok to simply say "Grow up" or "Lead by Example" or "follow the law". I'm sure this will get the "civility bullshit" tag, but whatever.
"I don't understand...."
And I don't understand your comment. Desire to contextualize? Sounds interesting but I don't get it.
Not a great idea.
Much as a banana is sometimes just a banana, sometimes a funny picture is just a funny picture.
As for the blue suit at the Pope's funeral: The US does not lower it flag in salute at the Olympics, and very similarly the President need not follow the fashion dictates of a foreign power.
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