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 latest historic election of Pope Leo XIV had “nothing to do with Donald Trump.”
ABC’s Sunday morning present, usually hosted by George Stephanopoulos, was instantly dubbed “The Slopadopolus Present” by Trump in his put up, a play on its fame for biased, sycophantic protection of Democrats and manufactured outrage over something Trump says or does.
Trump took to Reality Social and torched Raddatz in signature vogue, calling her a Trump-deranged “outdated timer” throughout what was purported to be a reverent post-conclave dialogue.
Trump wrote:
“So humorous to observe outdated timer Martha Raditz on ABC Faux Information (the Slopadopolus present!)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 rather a lot! Bob Iger ought to do one thing concerning the losers and haters he’s bought on his low rated exhibits. 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 mirror on the elevation of America’s first pope. However relatively than deal with the non secular 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 — an announcement that, oddly, nobody had even claimed within the first place.
RADDATZ: And, in fact, Pope Francis cared a lot concerning the poor and migrants. Pope Leo does as nicely. In some methods, will he be a counterbalance for what’s occurring in American politics proper now and President Trump?
CUPICH: I believe he’s going to assist full and complement our political agenda. He’ll discuss rather a lot concerning the immigrants as nicely as a result of he is aware of concerning the sufferings of individuals and the actual wants that they’ve for a greater life.
And he is aware of too that individuals 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 occurring in Central and South America the place there are weapons kind the US going there. He is aware of that these individuals want an choice.
And he’ll name for, I believe, because the bishops have in the US, fixing this damaged immigration system.
