When he wasn’t busy cratering our 401ks or defunding PBS and Meals on Wheels, the Bronzed Turd shared another career ambition: He wouldn’t mind becoming the next pope.

The bizarre revelation came when reporters asked him who he’d like to see succeed Pope Francis, who died late April at the age of 88.

“I’d like to be pope,” he said. “That would be my no. 1 choice.”

Say what?

Mango talks a lot of shit, and the country is drowning under executive orders that are dismantling every aspect of our safety net and reversing our hard-won progress on civil rights at a pace impossible to imagine.

So that weird moment was just one of 600 or so weird moments in any given day with him, maybe, just another brain fart from a brain suffering from permanent flatulence.

But it didn’t end there.

Lyndsey Graham, the South Carolina senator who warned in 2016, “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed … and we will deserve it,” viewed the comment as a holy sign.

On the site formerly known as Twitter and now the home to Nazis and their friends, he wrote on Tuesday, “I was excited to hear that President Trump is open to the idea of being the next Pope. This would truly be a dark horse candidate, but I would ask the papal conclave and Catholic faithful to keep an open mind about this possibility! The first Pope-U.S. President combination has many upsides. Watching for white smoke…. Trump MMXXVIII!”

This is slavish sycophancy on steroids.

But apparently, Dollar Tree Voldemort is quite taken with the idea.

He posted yesterday an AI rendition of himself in pope drag.

The official White House account reposted the image.

Why, yes, the United States does look like a nation of idiots to the rest of the world, why do you ask?

Even Vatican experts felt compelled to point out the obvious:

The next pope must be Catholic.

That’s kind of a baseline requirement.

There’s a lot to unpack here, but let’s start with the obvious.

For Catholics, this image is blasphemous.

Full stop.

Cheeto’s base of evangelical Christians, so outraged by a perceived parody of the Last Supper at the Paris Olympics (it wasn’t), have been remarkably quiet about this religious slur, probably because they view Catholics as heretics and the pope as the anti-Christ.

So does Mango really want to be pope?

His comments can’t be dismissed as a joke. The man doesn’t have the wit or the intelligence to make one and has never, ever shown a speck of humor in his entire life.

He’s not religious. Famously asked in one of his many Fox softball interviews what his favorite passage of the Bible is, he answered that he likes them all.

He’s about as spiritual as drywall, and at least drywall has a meaningful purpose.

He doesn’t even know how to hold a Bible.

It’s not that he wants to be pope so much as he sees no good reason why he shouldn’t be named pope.

He’s that much of a narcissist that he believes he deserves every honor in the world.

We’re all just fools for not recognizing he is the greatest, most wonderful person who ever existed.

“Let he who hasn’t raw-dogged a porn star while his third wife is in labor cast the first stone.”

Once again we are reminded that he somehow gets away with stuff that would destroy anyone else in the political arena. And this nonsense isn’t over.

Reacting to the AI fakery, Lyndsey posted yesterday, “Seeing is believing! A picture is worth a thousand words…. Glad to report there is very positive reception and strong momentum for President Trump to be the next Pope. But I will be first to admit there has been some resistance! Must keep your head down and plow forward — can’t let the naysayers win the day. Next week is crucial as the papal conclave convenes…. More updates to come!”

Can someone check on Lindsey, please?

It must be hard to breathe with his tongue so far up Mango’s ass.