ROME: US Cardinal Timothy Dolan mentioned on Sunday (Might 4) that President Donald Trump’s posting of an AI-generated photo showing himself as the pope “wasn’t good” however declined to say whether or not the White Home ought to apologise to offended Catholics.
Dolan, the archbishop of New York, was requested concerning the publish on the sidelines of a Mass he celebrated at a Rome church forward Wednesday’s begin of a conclave the place he and different cardinals underneath the age of 80 will elect a successor to Pope Francis.
Trump, who is just not a Catholic and doesn’t attend church frequently, posted the picture on his Reality Social platform late on Friday, lower than per week after attending the funeral of Pope Francis, who died at 88 final month.
The White Home then reposted it on its official X account.
“It wasn’t good,” Dolan mentioned earlier than the Mass in response to a reporter’s query, including: “I hope he didn’t have something to do with that.”
When a reporter requested if he was offended, Dolan mentioned: “Nicely, you recognize, it wasn’t good.”
Then, switching to Italian, he mentioned it was a “brutta figura”, a colloquial phrase for when somebody does one thing that’s embarrassing or makes them look dangerous.
Requested after the Mass if the publish must be taken down and if an apology from Trump or the White Home was so as, Dolan mentioned in Italian: “Who is aware of?” He declined to say something extra about it.
