President Trump unloaded on ABC’s Martha Raddatz Sunday after the longtime community anchor took a weird detour throughout her interview with Cardinal Blase Cupich, insisting that the current historic election of Pope Leo XIV had “nothing to do with Donald Trump.”
ABC’s Sunday morning present, typically hosted by George Stephanopoulos, was instantly dubbed “The Slopadopolus Present” by Trump in his submit, a play on its fame for biased, sycophantic protection of Democrats and manufactured outrage over something Trump says or does.
Trump took to Fact Social and torched Raddatz in signature vogue, calling her a Trump-deranged “previous timer” throughout what was imagined to be a reverent post-conclave dialogue.
Trump wrote:
“So humorous to look at previous timer Martha Raditz on ABC Pretend Information (the Slopadopolus present!) this morning, blurt out that, successfully, Pope Leo’s choice had nothing to do with Donald Trump. It got here out of nowhere, nevertheless it was on her Trump Deranged Thoughts.
Keep in mind, I did WIN the Catholic Vote, by so much! Bob Iger ought to do one thing in regards to the losers and haters he’s received on his low rated reveals. It’s time for change. MAGA!!!”
The second got here throughout an interview on ABC’s This Week, the place Raddatz welcomed Chicago’s ultra-liberal Cardinal Blase Cupich to replicate on the elevation of America’s first pope. However somewhat than concentrate on the spiritual and international significance of the second, Raddatz couldn’t assist however inject politics — particularly Trump — into the dialog.
With a sudden pivot that even Cupich appeared uncertain methods to navigate, Raddatz threw in a loaded comment suggesting the Pope’s choice was completely unrelated to Trump — a press release that, oddly, nobody had even claimed within the first place.
RADDATZ: And, after all, Pope Francis cared a lot in regards to the poor and migrants. Pope Leo does as effectively. In some methods, will he be a counterbalance for what’s taking place in American politics proper now and President Trump?
CUPICH: I feel he’s going to assist full and complement our political agenda. He’ll discuss so much in regards to the immigrants as effectively as a result of he is aware of in regards to the sufferings of individuals and the true wants that they’ve for a greater life.
And he is aware of too that folks in Oceania, for example, the place the — the rising sea ranges are simply — getting — overwhelming these islands, the place persons are attempting to flee, he sees the drug commerce that’s taking place in Central and South America the place there are weapons kind the US going there. He is aware of that these folks want an choice.
And he’ll name for, I feel, because the bishops have in the US, fixing this damaged immigration system.
