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Trump Seems to Think He Deserves Credit for the Election of Pope Leo XIV

The president highlighted his popularity with American Catholics in a Truth Social post.

President Donald Trump seems to think he deserves credit for the election of the first American pope. On Sunday, Trump blasted ABC News host Martha Raddatz over an episode of This Week with George Stephanopoulos that delved into Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost’s path to the papacy. “So funny to watch old timer Martha Raditz [sic] on ABC Fake News (the Slopadopolus show!) this morning, blurt out that, effectively, Pope Leo’s selection had nothing to do with Donald Trump,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “It came out of nowhere, but it was on her Trump Deranged Mind.” The president appeared to be reacting to a roundtable where ABC correspondent Terry Moran said, citing Vatican insiders, that Trump didn’t factor into the cardinals’ decision-making. “The question that we had was, ‘How much did the American moment with President Trump matter?’” Moran said. “They’re telling us, not at all. It was him (Prevost) that mattered.” Raddatz agreed, adding: “That’s what we’ve been hearing this morning—it was him,” referring to Prevost. Trump countered their points by touting that he won the Catholic vote “by a lot.” He called on Disney CEO Bob Iger to “do something about the losers and haters he’s got on his low-rated shows. It’s time for change.”

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