Catholic Officials Slam Trump’s ‘Deeply Offensive’ Post Showing Him As Next Pope
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"We’ve lost great respect for moments like this," said one archbishop of the imagery shared by Trump and the White House days after Pope Francis’ death.
An image shared by President Donald Trump depicting himself as the next pope is drawing condemnation among Catholic officials, with it being dismissed as “deeply offensive,” “sad” and “unfortunate.”
The AI-generated image, which shows Trump wearing a white cassock, papal headpiece and gold crucifix while gesturing with his right hand, was posted online Friday by the president and the official White House social media accounts.
It follows Trump joking to the media that he’d “like to be pope” following the death of Pope Francis on April 21.
“It’s sad both for the White House and for the president,” Cardinal Anders Arborelius, the bishop of Stockholm, told The Washington Post. “I mean, he makes themselves ridiculous, right?”
New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan also told reporters following a Mass in Rome on Sunday that the post “wasn’t good.”
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