The View co-host Ana Navarro called out President Donald Trump for posting a “disrespectful” and “disgusting” photo of himself as the pope from the White House’s official social media page.
The AI-generated photo, which was posted to X and Truth Social over the weekend, showed Trump wearing a white cassock and a papal tiara with a big golden cross dangling from his neck, which angered Catholics who are still mourning the recent death of Pope Francis.
“I realize this is part of his distraction strategy so that we’re not talking about him not following the Constitution,” Navarro said on this morning’s episode of The View. “I realize this is him trolling us so that we are outraged and talking about it. But OK, I’m gonna take the bait because I’m a flawed Catholic, but I’m a Catholic still.”
“Him tweeting out an AI-created image on the White House official account of him posing as the pope is disrespectful,” she continued. “It is frankly, disgusting. And it is outrageous.”
Navarro pointed out that many “people of faith who actually do believe in God and believe in the rituals of the church” are “bereft” over the death of Francis, who passed away on April 21 of a stroke and irreversible cardiovascular arrest.
“This is one of the most solemn times in the Catholic Church when they are in the process of selecting a new pope,” she said. “So, all of those devout Catholics that voted for Donald Trump because they thought for some reason that he was a better representation of faith than other folks, I think you need to ask yourselves some questions and I think you need to ask the White House and Donald Trump some questions.”
Navarro ended her rant with one final zinger directly aimed at the POTUS.
“Trump, Mr. President, it’s ‘His Holiness, The Pope.’ Not, ‘His Oiliness, The Dope,’” she said.
The View airs on weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.
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