Washington’s political circus took a wild detour into the absurd this week when Senator Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican known for his fierce loyalty to Donald Trump, tossed out a head-scratcher of a suggestion. On April 29, Graham, with a grin that could only mean he was half-kidding, urged the Catholic Church’s secretive conclave and its global flock to “keep an open mind” about the former president donning the papal tiara. Yes, Pope Trump. The idea, as bonkers as it sounds, wasn’t shouted into the void—it came straight from a Capitol Hill press scrum, where Graham’s words landed like a dropped hymnbook in a quiet cathedral.
The bizarre moment unfolded after Trump, never one to shy from a spotlight, mused to reporters outside the White House on April 28 that he’d “love to be the next head of the Catholic Church.” His comment, delivered with that signature mix of bravado and jest, was clearly meant to rile up the press...
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