Trump Will Be The Next Pope, Some Say Perhaps The Greatest Pope Ever
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Summary
A computer generated image of Donald Trump as the Pope is a thing of the past. It's a troll, and it's funny, but it's not a real troll. And that's what makes it even funnier, right?
Transcript
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President Trump shared an AI-generated image of himself depicted as the Pope.
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To the best of my knowledge, popes aren't big on getting married, are they?
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Donald Trump last week shared this AI-generated picture of him as the Pope.
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And here's the thing, it should just be fun, right?
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But Jon Stewart decided to take umbrage with this.
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And judge whether or not this is an important pronouncement or a brain-fogging digression.
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President Trump shared an AI-generated image of himself depicted as the Pope on social media yesterday.
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It's not the most presidential thing, but Trump and the Pope do share the same taste in interior design, so it's not the worst thing.
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Yeah, that fool from Half Baked is pretty funny.
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So, President Trump addressed it when he was asked about this, and he answered about as perfectly as you could, and he answered about as accurately as any human being should, of course, if he didn't happen to be Donald Trump.
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Some Catholics were not so happy about the image of you looking like the Pope.
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Somebody made up a picture of me dressed like the Pope, and they put it out on the Internet.
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Actually, I would not be able to be married, though.
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To the best of my knowledge, popes aren't big on getting married, are they?
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And I think it's the fake news media that, you know, they're fakers.
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My question, sir, was about the fact that it was put out on the White House account, even I love how they waste follow-up time.
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Like I've told you, the journalistic integrity of legacy media, it only exists in crappy films like Erin Brockovich.
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Think of how much time they're wasting on a follow-up To a joke.
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Most of his day, I think, outside of actually running the country, is dedicated to needling them.
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Yeah, but I love the fact that his defense here was like, I couldn't really be the Pope.
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And you, I mean, you, you know, you run in these circles as someone who advocates for orthodoxy.
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I didn't see a lot of outrage from Catholics really at all over this Photoshop.
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They manufactured a bunch of outrage where there's never any outrage.
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Well, when did the media start pious signaling about Catholics anyway?
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They're always the first ones there with the cameras are like, Catholics today were outside of an abortion clinic saying abortion was bad.
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Suddenly, though, they're like, you have offended a lot of cancer.
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My cousin Hector's a priest, and he's okay with it, okay?
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By the way, in case you've forgotten, too, the left, they want to control everything, right?
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They want to issue these follow-ups, these questions, and waste time, waste time, waste time.
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And then they want to tell you that they need to be presented as a solution to a problem that they fabricate.
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Case in point, remember the NPR CEO, Catherine Marr, she went on.
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We cover 99.7% of the country with our broadcast coverage, and that allows for Americans to have access to news, even in places where news deserts are growing, where disasters happen.
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That's the new human rights campaign, is news deserts.
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So NPR is solving these deplorable living conditions in places like Detroit and East St. Louis, sending in their own town crier.
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Today, President Trump has committed the sacrilege of crowning himself officially the new pope, as well as the hero in his own Star Wars film.