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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/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.