Trump jokes that he'd like to be the next pope

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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.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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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.

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