Trump claims credit score for brand spanking new Pope Leo’s election regardless of having nothing to do with | EUROtoday

Donald Trump has advised he performed a job in Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV’s election as the brand new pontiff.

That’s regardless of the U.S. president having nothing to do with the normal Conclave course of that selects a brand new pope.

In a Truth Social rant in opposition to ABC News Sunday night time, Trump sought credit score for the election of Pope Leo, previously Cardinal Robert Prevost.

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“So funny to watch old timer Martha Raditz on ABC Fake News (the Slopadopolus show!) this morning, blurt out that, effectively, Pope Leo’s selection had nothing to do with Donald Trump,” he wrote on Truth Social. “It came out of nowhere, but it was on her Trump Deranged Mind.”

Trump added that he “did WIN the Catholic Vote, by a lot” and referred to as on Disney CEO Bob Iger to do one thing in regards to the “losers and haters he’s got on his low-rated shows”.

The president’s feedback got here hours earlier than the brand new Pope gave his first press convention Monday morning, calling for an finish to “loud, forceful communication”. In an deal with to media representatives within the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall, the brand new pontiff issued a name for unity after he was met with prolonged applause from hundreds of journalists.

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Leo referred to as on the world to “disarm communication of all prejudice and resentment, fanaticism and even hatred”.

“Let us free it from aggression,” he continued. “We do not need loud forceful communication, but rather communication that is capable of listening and gathering the voices of the weak who have no voice.

“Let us disarm words. Let us disarm words and we will help the world disarm. Disarming communication will allow us to share events of the world and to act in a manner consistent with our human dignity.”

Leo, who has beforehand been vital of the anti-immigration narrative pushed by the MAGA proper, was elected as the primary Pope from North America throughout a 24-hour Conclave final week. His appointment has been met with backlash from MAGA loyalists, with Laura Loomer taking pictures on the ‘anti-Trump Marxist’.

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In the run-up to his election on Thursday because the 267th pope, the then-cardinal Prevost shared an article from a Catholic publication in February with the headline: “JD Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn’t ask us to rank our love for others.”

Days earlier, Vance had cited a Christian tenet about prioritizing take care of these round as justification for the Trump administration’s anti-immigration stance.

Before Trump’s first election in 2016, Leo additionally posted to X a Washington Post op-ed by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York, with the headline, “Why Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric is so problematic.”