Trump Actually Managed To Give The Pope Some Well-Wishes On His Cancer Diagnosis Before Making It About Himself

Trump was taking questions from reporters astatine Laughlin Bullhead International Airport successful Arizona and was asked if helium had thing to accidental astir the matter, pursuing a ceremonial announcement Tuesday by the Vatican that has prompted planetary well-wishes for the pope to swiftly recover.

“I privation to spot Pope Leo get well,” Trump said Wednesday. “I perceive the prognosis for that benignant of a occupation — it’s cancer, it’s large worldly anytime you person crab — but the prognosis seems to beryllium good. I’ve watched, and we conscionable privation to privation him our emotion and our champion wishes.”

He continued, “His brother’s a person of mine, he’s a large — he’s a fantastic guy. And his wife, you know, they’re large Trump supporters. They person MAGA each implicit their house, and I tin accidental that his member loves him a lot, loves the pope a lot, and that’s good. Good capable for me.”

Pope Leo XIV was diagnosed with pulmonary adenocarcinoma, a communal benignant of lung cancer, and has canceled each nationalist events until Oct. 20. The Vatican connected Tuesday did not accidental which signifier his crab had reached but noted country was “completed successfully.”

He further argued successful his post, “If I wasn’t successful the White House, Leo wouldn’t beryllium successful the Vatican.”

This nonfiction primitively appeared connected HuffPost.