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Rodney Hinton, Ohio Father Whose Son Was Killed By Police, Accused Of Killing Officer With His Car In Response

An Ohio man who is grieving after his son was fatally shot by police is now accused of purposely striking and killing a sheriff’s deputy.

Police said Rodney Hinton Jr. struck the officer in Cincinnati, Ohio, the day after his 18-year-old son, Ryan Hinton, was killed. Hinton Jr. is now charged with aggravated murder.

What are prosecutors saying about Rodney Hinton Jr. allegedly striking a deputy on purpose?

Prosecuting attorney Ryan Nelson said the father’s plans were “calculated and premeditated.”

“He lined up his car, deliberately accelerated his car and purposely caused the death of an on-duty deputy sheriff,” Nelson said on Saturday, per ABC News.

What are Hinton Jr.’s representatives saying about the tragedy facing the family and the charges against the father?

Hinton Jr.’s attorney said that his client is facing a “very serious, very terrible charge,” but he doesn’t have any felony record to worry about.

“I understand that this is an emotionally charged situation,” the attorney said, noting the death of Ryan, per ABC News. “I understand that there is a lot of sadness and a lot of anger in this room right now and in the community at large.”

Attorneys for the Hinton family said they were hired to investigate Ryan’s case. The representatives said Rodney Hinton and other family members met with police on Friday to see body camera footage of the fatal incident involving the teen.

“Ryan Hinton’s family, including Ryan’s father, was present at the meeting and they were understandably distraught as they watched the bodycam video,” the attorneys stated. “After the meeting with the police department, Ryan Hinton’s father left in his own vehicle and that was the last we heard from him until learning about the tragic incident involving a law enforcement officer who was working a traffic detail near the University of Cincinnati.”

Although the department hasn’t identified the officer who was killed, police said it was a recently retired officer who was serving in a special capacity.

What happened in the fatal incident between Ryan Hinton and police?

Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge spoke about the fatal incident during a press conference on Friday. Theetge said four suspects jumped from a car that was believed to be stolen as they were being pursued by police. One of the four people, according to Theetge, was identified as Ryan Hinton. A still image from the body camera footage showed that Hinton fell near two dumpsters as he was trying to run away, WCPO reported.

Theetge said the teen was carrying a gun and officers heard the metal of the gun hitting the ground as he fell. As Ryan tried to hide between the two dumpsters, the officer who fired the shots yelled, “gun.” The officer fired about five shots and struck Ryan with two of those bullets, Theetge said, also noting that the footage was blurry.

“The individual is running with a firearm in his hand and the officer is running, so the body camera is jolting and what that leaves us with is a very blurred image, unfortunately,” Theetge said.

The police chief added that the officer was believed to be in danger because Ryan allegedly had the gun pointed at him.

May 5, 2025

Billboard  ·  Billboard 200  ·  Chart Beat  ·  genre rock  ·  Music  ·  Music News  ·  News
Ghost Earns First No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 With ‘Skeletá’

Ghost grabs the No. 1 slot on the Billboard 200 albums chart for the first time, as the Swedish hard rock band’s new studio effort Skeletá debuts atop the tally (dated May 10) with 86,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending May 1, according to Luminate. Of the album’s starting sum, 89% was driven by traditional album sales — buoyed by a big vinyl sales figure.
Skeletá launches with Ghost’s best week ever by both equivalent album units and traditional album sales.

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Skeletá marks the ninth charted effort for the group on the Billboard 200. The band first visited the list in 2013 with its second album, Infestissumam, which also marked the act’s first top 40-charting set, reaching No. 28. Skeletá scores Ghost its eighth top 40 set, and fifth to reach the top 10. The band had previously gone as high as No. 2 with its last full-length studio album, 2022’s Impera.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new May 10, 2025-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on May 6. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

Of Skeletá’s 86,000 first-week equivalent album units, album sales comprise 77,000 (it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 9,000 (equaling 12.45 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. The set’s first-week sales were bolstered by its availability across more than 15 vinyl variants, three CD variants and four cassette variants (all containing the same tracklist, but in collectible packaging).

With Skeletá scoring 9,000 in SEA units (12.45 million on-demand official streams of the album’s songs), the group logs its biggest streaming week ever for an album. It surpasses the opening-week of Impera (7,000 SEA; 9.11 million streams for its songs).

The new album was led by the radio-promoted single “Satanized,” which became the act’s 10th top 10-charting hit on the Mainstream Rock Airplay chart in April. It’s one of a trio of hits that the album yielded on the Hot Hard Rock Songs chart prior to the album’s release. “Satanized” hit No. 3 (March 22 chart), followed by “Lachryma” (No. 3, April 26) and “Peacefield” (No. 13, May 3). (Skeletá is also the first full-length project from the band since the act garnered its first hit on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, when its viral hit “Mary on a Cross” reached No. 90 on the tally in 2022.)

With the No. 1 arrival on the Billboard 200, Skeletá lands a number of milestone achievements for Ghost. Here’s a recap:

Skeletá yields Ghost’s best week ever by both equivalent album units and traditional album sales. The act’s previous high in both metrics came in the debut week of Impera (March 26, 2022), which earned 70,000 units (of which nearly 63,000 were album sales). As noted earlier, Skeletá also garners the largest streaming week for a Ghost album.

Ghost lands the biggest week of 2025, by either equivalent album units or traditional album sales, for any rock, hard rock or alternative album.

Of Skeletá’s first-week album sales, vinyl purchases comprised just over 44,000 copies. That’s not just the largest sales week on vinyl for Ghost, but the biggest week for a hard rock album on vinyl in the modern era (since Luminate began tracking data in 1991). It’s also the third-largest sales week on vinyl in the modern era for any rock album, trailing only the opening weeks of blink-182’s One More Time… (49,000; 2023) and boygenius’ The Record (45,000; 2023).

Skeletá is the first hard rock album to lead the Billboard 200 in over four years, and the only rock, hard rock or alternative album to be No. 1 in 2025. The last hard rock album at No. 1 was AC/DC’s Power Up, which premiered at No. 1 on the Nov. 28, 2020, chart and spent one week at No. 1. The last rock, or alternative, album to lead the tally was Coldplay’s Moon Music, when it debuted at No. 1 on the Oct. 19, 2024, chart (spending one week at No. 1).

Rock, alternative and hard rock albums are defined as those that are eligible for, or have charted on, Billboard’s Top Rock Albums, Top Alternative Albums and Top Hard Rock Albums charts, respectively.

Not only is Skeletá the group’s first No. 1, but it’s the first chart-topper for its label Loma Vista Recordings and the first leader for Concord Label Group in nearly a decade — since James Taylor’s Before This World (on Concord Records) debuted at No. 1 on the July 4, 2015-dated chart. Loma Vista had previously gone as high as No. 2 with Ghost’s last full-length studio album, Impera, in 2022.

Skeletá is the lone debut in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200 chart. The titles at Nos. 2-7 are all former No. 1s. SZA’s SOS slips to No. 2 (52,000 equivalent album units earned; down 1%), Kendrick Lamar’s GNX falls 2-3 (48,000; down 5%), Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time is down 3-4 (46,000; down 4%), Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet descends 4-5 (44,000; down 8%), PARTYNEXTDOOR and Drake’s $ome $exy $ongs 4 U falls 5-6 (43,000; down 6%) and Bad Bunny’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos is down 6-7 (38,000; down 3%).

Shaboozey’s Where I’ve Been, Isn’t Where I’m Going gallops 45-8 with 35,000 equivalent album units earned (up 110%) after a deluxe reissue on April 25 that added six additional songs, bringing its total song count to 18. The set debuted and peaked at No. 5 on the June 15, 2024-dated list. (He also played the Stagecoach Festival on April 26.)

Playboi Carti’s chart-topping MUSIC (7-9; 34,000 equivalent album units, down 11%) and Morgan Wallen’s former leader Dangerous: The Double Album (9-10; 33,000, down 3%) round out the Billboard 200’s top 10.

Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.

May 4, 2025

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Ava Max Announces ‘Don’t Click Play’ Album, Reveals Release Date & Cover Art

Ava Max‘s new album Don’t Click Play is arriving this summer. The set, featuring lead single “Lost Your Faith,” will be her third full-length album. Max unveiled the album’s release date and its cover art on Thursday (May 1). Pop […]

May 4, 2025

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Ella Langley, Riley Green’s ‘You Look Like You Love Me’ Wins Visual Media of the Year Ahead of 2025 ACM Awards

Although the ceremony for the 2025 ACM Awards is still a few days away, Ella Langley and Riley Green are early winners for their breakthrough hit “You Look Like You Love Me.” The surprise was revealed while the pair were on stage at Country Thunder in Tampa, Florida, Friday night (May 2) — with the reveal coming from none other than country icon and 18-time ACM Awards host Reba McEntire.
A special video from Reba, in which she congratulated the two artists as winners of this year’s award for visual media of the year (for their “You Look Like You Love Me” music video), played during Green’s set at the festival on Friday. Langley receives honors for both artist and director in the category.

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“Sorry to interrupt, but I have some big news,” Reba teased in the clip that announced their win. “Congratulations to Ella and Riley! Can’t wait to celebrate with you both in Frisco!”

Langley learned of her first Academy of Country Music award just a week ago, during her set at Rock the Country in Knoxville, Tennessee.

News of that first win — for new female artist of the year — arrived courtesy of friend and co-writer Miranda Lambert via video message. (Lambert, who called Langley “my soul sister in country music and a partner in crime,” was named winner in the same category 18 years ago.)

Langley’s the most-nominated artist at the 60th ACM Awards.

With two awards to her name already, several remain up for grabs for the singer-songwriter at this year’s ceremony: female artist of the year, plus single of the year, song of the year and music event of the year (all for her “You Look Like You Love Me” duet with Green). For song of the year, the two are nominated as both artists and songwriters.

The twangy, flirty barroom duet, released in 2024, made it to No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart, No. 7 on Hot Country Songs and No. 30 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The 2025 ACM Awards will stream live globally on Prime Video and the Amazon Music channel on Twitch on Thursday, May 8 at 8 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. CT / 5 p.m. PT from the Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas. Expect to tune in for two-and-a-half hours to catch the full show.

The Academy of Country Music Awards is the longest-running country music awards show, with its inaugural year being 1966.

The ACM Awards are produced by Dick Clark Productions, which is owned by Penske Media Eldridge, a joint venture between Eldridge Industries and Billboard parent company Penske Media.

May 4, 2025

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Marlon Wayans, After Supporting His Trans Son, Says He ‘Lost People’: ‘Small-Hearted’

Marlon Wayans opened up about his relationship with his son as he sat down for an interview with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson on the IMO podcast. Wayans, who appeared on Wednesday’s episode alongside his brother Damon Wayans, said he really understood the meaning of unconditional love after his son came out as trans.

What did Marlon Wayans say about showing unconditional love for his son?

Wayans said he was initially in denial about his son being trans, but it didn’t take him long to come to terms with the reality.

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“When they went through the transition, I actually went through the transition,” the actor said on the podcast, per Them. “I went from denial to complete acceptance, and it took me a week to get there.”

Wayans affirmed that no matter what happens from this point forward, he will continue to love Kai.

“If that’s a mistake and we get to heaven and God don’t let my child in, I’m going to shave a beard and sneak them in through the back,” Wayans said as he expressed his love for his son with some humor. “I’m going to love my baby… I’m a father, and I’m always going to defend them. I’m always going to protect them. I’m always going to respect them. And there’s nothing anybody could ever tell me.”

Damon Wayans also affirmed that he will love his nephew unconditionally.

“I love Kai,” Damon said on the podcast, per The Rickey Smiley Morning Show. “I never want him to feel judged by me.”

What is Marlon Wayans saying about the public reaction he faces for supporting his trans son?

The White Chicks star made it clear that he is not really worried about how people judge him for accepting his son.

“I lost people that are small-minded, small-hearted, and self-loathing,” he said. “So, goodbye… For every one I lose, I gain 150 more.”

Wayans previously faced criticism from people like Soulja Boy, who insulted him with a transphobic slur. Still, the Hollywood star doesn’t seem fazed.

“You know you can get cancelled for transphobic slander like this,” Wayans said on social media in response to Soulja Boy. “Fortunately for you that you don’t have a career. Apparently, you BEEN cancelled for the last 17 years. Crank That was 2007. We waiting.”

May 3, 2025

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Karmelo Anthony Case: Black Woman Judge Doxxed After Bond Reduced, Sparking Investigation

Investigators in Frisco, Texas have launched a probe after perpetrators allegedly doxed Collin County Judge Angela Tucker, who reduced the $1 million bond for 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony.

He’s accused of fatally stabbing his peer, Austin Metcalf, at a track meet. According to Fox 4, the unidentified hackers have been publishing the judge’s personal address on social media following her decision to reduce the bond to $250,000.

How are the authorities handling Judge Angela Tucker’s doxxing?

The Collin County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that their “priority remains ensuring the judge’s safety and appropriate security measures have been implemented.” Former Dallas County assistant district attorney Russell Wilson said judges are especially at risk in high-profile cases such as the one involving Anthony and Metcalf as investigators continue to see an increase in the number of private information being leaked online.

“Certain information is publicly available. But judges and individuals in law enforcement do have a statute that allows them to remove some of their information from being publicly available. And so publication of that information with the intent to cause harm or for them to get a threat is a crime in Texas,” Wilson said, per Fox 4.

The sheriff’s office added that it’s “coordinating with the FBI and our Fusion Center to monitor for any concerning rhetoric or propaganda that could incite violence.” 

What happened between Karmelo Anthony and Austin Metcalf?

Metcalf, the 17-year-old Memorial High School student-athlete, was killed at a track meet on April 2. Witnesses said Anthony, who is from Centennial High School, had a confrontation with Metcalf. As the confrontation broke out between the two teens, Anthony allegedly reached into a bag and stabbed Metcalf. Anthony, now charged with first-degree murder, is on house arrest after the judge reduced his bond to $250,000.

May 3, 2025

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Hundreds Of School Children Fall Ill After Dead Snake Found In School Meal In India

More than 100 children in India have become sick after eating a school lunch that was poisoned by a snake. According to the BBC, the cook at the school still served the food to the children after removing the snake. At least 500 children ate the food, per the National Human Rights Commission.

What is the public’s response to children in India eating food poisoned by a snake?

Residents of Mokama, India, blocked the road in protest as they aimed to bring justice for the children. The NHRC is standing with protesters, saying the incident is a serious concern.

“The commission has observed that the contents, if true, raise a serious issue of violation of the human rights of the students,” the organization said, adding that it will demand a “detailed report” from senior state officials, including “the health status of the children.”

The commission stated it has “issued notices to the Chief Secretary, Government of Bihar and the Senior Superintendent of Police, Patna, Bihar.”

What are previous issues that came up with school lunches in India?

According to the BBC, the free lunch served in the school is part of a program known as the Mid-Day Meal. The program, which was established in 1925, was first provided for children in the southern city of Chennai who come from low-income families. However, India has seen some issues with school meals. According to CBS News, 23 children in the Saran district of Bihar died from food poisoned with pesticides in 2013.

“It was the high quantity of monocrotophos insecticide found in the food which proved fatal for the school children,” police official Ravindra Kumar said at that time, per the BBC.

The BBC added that there have been several complaints about school lunches in India through the years.

May 3, 2025

Concerts  ·  genre pop  ·  Music  ·  Music News  ·  News  ·  Pop
Kylie Minogue Reflects On Tension Tour’s ‘Incredible’ U.S. & Canada Run at Hits-Filled L.A. Show

Pop superstar Kylie Minogue capped her first arena tour of the United States and Canada on Friday night (May 2) as her Tension Tour touched down in Los Angeles at Crypto.com Arena.
“Good evening, Los Angeles! We are here!” the ever-gracious performer exclaimed to the packed house early in the evening. “Thank you so much each and every one of you for coming out tonight, and welcome to the Tension Tour.”

While the two-hour show took fans on a journey through four decades of Minogue’s hits, it also highlighted eight songs from her two most recent studio albums, Tension II (released in 2024) and Tension (2023). Among those choice cuts were Tension’s Grammy Award-winning “Padam Padam,” which was also a top 10-charting hit on Billboard’s Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart in 2023, and the show-opening “Lights, Camera, Action” from Tension II.

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The Tension Tour is just the third traveling show Minogue has brought to the U.S. and Canada, having previously visited the country with Aphrodite Live in 2011 and the KYLIE trek 2009, with both staged before more intimate crowds as compared to the arena-sized audiences of the Tension Tour. Separate from her three tours, Minogue also mounted her first Las Vegas residency in 2023-24, with 20 dates at the 1,000-seat capacity Voltaire at The Venetian Las Vegas.

The Tension Tour kicked off on Feb. 15 in Perth, in Minogue’s home country of Australia, moved to Asia for a trio of dates (March 10-15) and then reached North America on March 29 in Canada. For the U.S. and Canada run, the Tension Tour played 16 shows between March 29-May 2, including a pair of nights at New York’s Madison Square Garden (April 4-5). The trek now moves to Europe on May 16, then to South America on Aug. 7, and then back to North America for its three final dates in Mexico (Aug. 22-26). By the close of the Tension Tour, Minogue will have played nearly 70 shows in more than 25 countries on five continents.

At one point during the Los Angeles show on Friday, Minogue paused and reflected, “Here we are in 2025 and I get to be on a world tour with these beautiful humans, beautiful intelligent humans — the ones you can see on the stage and off stage. And I get very emotional thinking about this, this… that I’ve… it’s been a lifetime and sometimes it just amazes me. So very, very grateful. Thank you so much for being here.”

That “lifetime” of a musical career was on display through the show, with Minogue offering up a bevy of hits like her first single, the 1987 cover of “The Loco-Motion,” along with “Better the Devil You Know” (1990), “Spinning Around” (2000, and joined onstage by the show’s opening act Rita Ora), “Can’t Get You Out of My Head” (2001), “All the Lovers” (2010) and many more.

Before the final song of the night (“Love at First Sight”), a joyful Minogue shared a message with the crowd: “You’ve been beyond tonight. You’ve been here, present, ready, going — thank you so much for being here, for your beautiful energy, for being here for me in all different times of my career. For being there for each other! I just want to give a real shout-out to our entire crew because this has been an incredible run. We’ve loved it, so thank you.” After a moment of applause from the crowd, she then humorously added, “I’ve got some old friends here tonight. Look at me now!”

May 3, 2025

african music  ·  afrobeats  ·  Concerts  ·  Music  ·  Music News  ·  News
Rema Celebrates 25th Birthday With Fiery Madison Square Garden Debut in NYC

Rema‘s 2022 debut album, Rave & Roses, spun out the biggest Afrobeats crossover hit in U.S. history (the Selena Gomez-assisted “Calm Down”), and just three years later, the Nigerian superstar has cemented his place in the genre’s Big Four with a fiery, high-octane Madison Square Garden debut in New York City on Friday (May 2).

Named for Heis — his 2024 sophomore LP, which earned him his first Grammy nod for best global music album — Rema’s Heis World Tour is a towering statement of what an impressive career and catalog the 25-year-old visionary has built for himself since exploding onto the scene with 2019’s “Dumebi.” While that early-career hit was saved for later in the night during Friday’s concert, Rema, dressed in a massive fur overcoat and wielding a machete atop a levitating platform, kicked off his headlining set with “March Am,” Heis’ introductory track.

“I wanna introduce to you a man, a myth, a legend,” a faceless announcer declared over brooding, cinematic drums reminiscent of the ones that define the soundscape of Heis. “He goes by many names! He is… Prince of Afrobeats, Rema!” This lead-in may have felt a bit overblown for other artists, but Rema spent the next hour-and-a-half proving why he’s worthy of such an effusive intro. Fellow Heis cuts “Azaman” and “Yayo” followed, keeping the crowd’s energy consistent for the show’s first act before the first of several interludes that chopped up the setlist’s flow.

The concert’s setlist was loosely organized by theme and tempo. What it lacked in continuity, Rema more than made up for with the sheer number of hits he played. A cheeky kiss-cam introduced a mellower, heart-eyed segment featuring cuts like “Favorite Girl” (with Darkoo) and “Soundgasm”; “Calm Down” made for a classic arena sing-along moment, and newer drops like “Bout U” and “Baby (Is It a Crime)” allowed Rema the space to show off both his sultrier R&B side and his swaggering rock edge.

Though his stage was equipped with a sizeable walkway, Rema performed the bulk of his set’s most intense moments atop what appeared to be an entrance to some sort of dungeon. That blocking worked for the show’s overall aesthetic, but it likely would have made for an even more thrilling performance if he hit the night’s most energetic moments closer to the crowd. Nonetheless, from a recreation of the “Charm” music video to the smart additional harmonies sung by his female background singers, the raucous energy of Heis found subtle complements in the pockets of feminine energy that decorated the show.

From surprise guests to eyebrow-raising statements, here are the five best moments from Rema’s Heis Tour stop at New York City’s Madison Square Garden.

A Surprise Birthday Celebration

May 3, 2025

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Trump Posts AI Picture Of Himself As Pope In Bizzare Moment That White House Also Shares

As the world waits to see who will take the seat of Pope Francis, who died on April 21, Donald Trump went to social media to post what appeared to be a bizarre, AI-generated picture of himself as the next pope. The President posted the photo on his Truth Social account without providing any commentary. As the White House shared the photo on its official social media accounts, many more people saw the image and became baffled by what appeared to be a mockery of the Catholic faith.

Donald Trump just posted a photo of himself as the Pope.It’s full-on lunacy at this point. pic.twitter.com/7be1cIgUwK— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) May 3, 2025

What are social media users saying about Trump posting a photo of himself as the pope?

Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele condemned the image and described Trump as a narcissist.

“During this period of Novemdiales (mourning the loss of Pope Francis) I’ll set this offense aside because Trump in his narcissism gets off on our being offended,” Steele wrote on X. “More to the point, this affirms how unserious and incapable he is. At 78 he remains a 10yo child, emotionally scarred and broken while desperate to prove he could be somebody. His problem: he can’t grow up to prove it.”

During this period of Novemdiales (mourning the loss of Pope Francis) I’ll set this offense aside because Trump in his narcissism gets off on our being offended. More to the point, this affirms how unserious and incapable he is. At 78 he remains a 10yo child, emotionally scarred… pic.twitter.com/FLZGRuKHyE— Michael Steele (@MichaelSteele) May 3, 2025

Film producer Morgan J. Freeman echoed the sentiment of many others, saying Trump has turned America into a “joke.”

The USA is a fucking joke — a joke that will get millions killed if we don’t course correct NOW!This post is a massive insult to Catholics, Pope Francis’ family, friends & devotees, and to the present conclave. Only thing potentially accurate is that Trump is a sexual… pic.twitter.com/8JlMTjAiAJ— Morgan J. Freeman (@mjfree) May 3, 2025

What did Donald Trump previously say about becoming the next pope?

Days after the death of Pope Francis, Trump told reporters that he would like to be the next leader of the Catholic church.

“I’d like to be pope. That would be my No. 1 choice,” Trump said, per Variety.

The President also name-dropped Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, in the midst of his statement.

“I must say we have a cardinal that happens to be out of a place called New York who is very good,” he said. “So we’ll see what happens.”

In a 2020 interview with Religion News Service, which was published on the White House website, Trump said he “was confirmed at a Presbyterian church as a child,” but he now consider himself “to be a non-denominational Christian.”

May 3, 2025

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