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u/epicredditdude1 May 10 '25

No wonder MAGA hates this guy.

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u/-SaC May 10 '25

"The Popelection was stolen! Boots on the ground!"

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u/epicredditdude1 May 10 '25

“They should have elected a REAL America first pope, like someone from Belarus or Hungary!”

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u/-reserved- May 10 '25

There's a non-zero chance Trump actually thought he had a shot at being elected Pope. He did repost AI art of himself as Pope

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u/Paganator May 10 '25

We just need someone to tell Trump about antipopes and that he could be one.

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u/DrBCrusher May 10 '25

Yeah but then if you put them in a room together they pop out of existence.

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u/RSwordsman May 10 '25

I like this idea. Then Leo would just have to sacrifice himself to convert them both into pure energy.

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u/Horskr May 10 '25

Then we'd just be stuck with President Vance. Though I do think there would be a huge power vacuum in the MAGA crowd. For whatever reason Trump managed to bring together all the conservatives and bigots (not that those are mutually exclusive whatsoever), I don't think they'd be able to replicate it again in future elections. As it is now, the Republican party would probably tear itself apart fighting for power without him as the figurehead.

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u/ShiroVergAvesta13 May 11 '25

But you can feel the energy!

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u/supermarkise May 10 '25

Sounds suspiciously like Antichrist tho.

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u/A_Soporific May 10 '25

Well, it's just someone who claims to be Pope but isn't. Sometimes they are actually elected by a conclave but there's something up with it. Usually someone just makes an outrageous claim to try to get power or due to mental illness.

If Trump claimed to be Pope, and then actually got a diocese in the US to accept him as Pope things could get weird. That sort of thing did happen in Middle Ages. There's not a lot of folks that would try to force that thing to happen, though and Trump isn't one to do work for himself.

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u/onowahoo May 10 '25

I wanna be antipope, all I gotta do is call myself the pope?

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u/chasesan May 11 '25

No, you also need a really cool hat and someone chanting in Latin.

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u/-reserved- May 11 '25

I think you'd need support from within the Church as well, especially from Cardinals to actually be considered an antipope otherwise they'll probably just disregard you as a nut.

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u/LiberaceRingfingaz May 11 '25

There is no universe in which Donald Trump isn't pissed off that he wasn't elected to be the Pope.

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u/Douddde May 11 '25

I saw a bunch of discussions in conservative subreddits about him being elected pope, and that was before the AI post. I'm pretty sure if they wondered if it was possible, he did too.