President Donald Trump wasn’t a big fan of ABC’s Martha Raddatz’s commentary on Pope Leo XIV being a “counterbalance” to his administration, firing off a fierce social media message which included a brutal nickname for her show.
Raddatz, a co-anchor on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” spoke with the Archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Blase Cupich, on Sunday about the newly minted Pope and bizarrely injected politics into the conversation.
“And, of course, Pope Francis cared so much about the poor and migrants. Pope Leo does as well. In some ways, will he be a counterbalance for what’s happening in American politics right now and President Trump?” she mused.
“I think he’s going to help complete and complement our political agenda,” Cupich replied. “He’ll talk a lot about the immigrants as well because he knows about the sufferings of people and…
