US President Donald Trump on Tuesday (April 29) joked that he would like to succeed Pope Fancis, who passed away last week at the age of 88.
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00:00U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday joked that he would like to succeed Pope Francis,
00:08who passed away last week at the age of 88.
00:11As Pope? I'd like to be Pope. That would be my number one choice.
00:16When asked for his thoughts on the upcoming conclave to elect the next leader of the Catholic Church,
00:21Trump said he had no particular preference.
00:25No, I don't know. I have no preference. I must say we have a cardinal that happens to be out of a place called New York who's very good.
00:32So we'll see what happens.
00:35According to the Vatican, Roman Catholic cardinals will begin their secretive conclave on May 7th to choose the next pope.
00:44A total of 135 cardinals under the age of 80, representing countries around the world,
00:50are eligible to vote in the election of the next leader of the 1.4 billion member Catholic Church.
00:57what happened to the last few weeks ago.
01:00It's the last three weeks ago.
01:01We're not
01:05people who are willing to vote in the election of Christ or even for them to vote in the election of the 1.4 billion.
01:09We're just going to vote in the elections now.
01:11We're going to vote out for the 1951.
01:13We're just going to vote on the election for the next year.
01:16We're not going to vote on the election of the 19th March in August.
01:19We're not going to vote on theão of the 19th March in July 17.
01:21It's the nesting vote in the election.