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The No. 1 person former President Obama most wants to meet? Pope Leo XIV
America Today ^ | February 17, 2026 | Simone Orendain

Posted on 04/19/2026 3:02:28 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Former President Barack Obama said in a YouTube interview posted Feb. 14 he wants to meet Pope Leo XIV. Left-leaning political YouTuber and podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen asked who the former president most wanted to meet at the end of a wide-ranging Q&A that began with the topic of a controversial racist social media post that portrayed him and his wife, former first lady Michelle Obama, as apes.

Obama answered that he wanted to meet the pope, “and I hope I get an opportunity sometime in the future.”

Obama, whose second term ended in 2017 when President Donald Trump entered his first term in office, pointed out that Pope Leo is a fellow White Sox fan and from Chicago, like himself. Originally from Hawaii, Obama made Chicago home after college and taught at the University of Chicago Law School on the city’s South Side — where the White Sox play — and has continued to celebrate that part of the city, even establishing his presidential library there.

Pope Leo grew up in Chicago’s south suburbs and is a dedicated White Sox fan. The White Sox Rate Field ball park has a papal portrait on a wall and seat markers in the now famous section of where the future pope sat during game one of the 2005 World Series. The Sox were champions that year.

The 44th president said he “had the pleasure of getting to know Pope Francis pretty well, and he was legit.”

“You know, there’s some figures — (Pope Francis) was one, the Dalai Lama is another, who they’re how you hope they are,” he said. “They kind of walk the walk. And my sense of this new pope is, he’s … cut from that cloth, somebody who worked in places that really needed help.”

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1 posted on 04/19/2026 3:02:28 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Lib pope meets lib dope. How cute.


2 posted on 04/19/2026 3:03:41 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Well gee isn’t that Biblical.


3 posted on 04/19/2026 3:04:50 PM PDT by OKSooner (The Pope be a Dope.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Well David Axelrod is already scripting Leo, so I am sure Obama and he have already spoken several times.


4 posted on 04/19/2026 3:04:52 PM PDT by montag813
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Obama wants to become Puppet Master of Pope Leo, telling him what to say, to whom and in what manner to say it.

In exchange, Obama’s
group will donate various and sundry Money Bombs to the Catholic Church, so long as the money is spent on WOKE & DEI Catholics ONLY!!! Drag Story Hour, say near your cell phones.

Pope Leo is about to become
Biden, Part Deux, if Valerie Garret has her way. All others are simply her Sockpuppets, including Obama himself.
Same as it was during his two (stolen?) terms.


5 posted on 04/19/2026 3:07:51 PM PDT by lee martell
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Of COURSE he does...the Pope is doing his bidding....from the Jew he met with at The Vatican, David Axelrod!!!

NOW WHY WOULD THE POPE MEET WITH DAVID AXELROD, A JEW???

6 posted on 04/19/2026 3:08:54 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Leo is trembling at the thought of getting Obama’s autograph. May as well have a party with Pelosi and Biden along with David Axelrod and the iconic hero Obama.

Earlier:
Axelrod, who is Jewish, told Kapos, describing the meeting as “very personal” and adding that he was “a great admirer.”
and
Leo has also kept his distance from Washington, declining an invitation from the White House to attend the United States’ 250th anniversary celebrations this summer.


7 posted on 04/19/2026 3:11:09 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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The moslem Maoist meets the “Christian” Maoist.


8 posted on 04/19/2026 3:13:02 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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Two people nobody else wants to listen to. They can talk commie and gay stuff and then dirt Trump.


9 posted on 04/19/2026 3:17:29 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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D.I.L.L.I.G.A.F


10 posted on 04/19/2026 3:22:19 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try. )
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They must have previously met in one of those gay shower rooms in Chicago, and Bambi wants to renew the relationship.


11 posted on 04/19/2026 3:25:47 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: OKSooner

Wannabe antichrist meets wannabe false prophet?


12 posted on 04/19/2026 3:29:04 PM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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They can share respective Chicago sunrises over the lake stories.


13 posted on 04/19/2026 3:31:46 PM PDT by GreatRoad ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act' )
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To: MinorityRepublican

Of course, Obama wants the Pope to bow down and worship him.


14 posted on 04/19/2026 3:38:32 PM PDT by PROCON (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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15 posted on 04/19/2026 3:43:57 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If it ain't fun, you ain't doin' it right.)
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Worst President Ever meets with Most Woke Pope Ever.

FAWNING News At Eleven via the Enemy Media.

*BARF* (I’ll pass, Thanks!)


16 posted on 04/19/2026 3:48:50 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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I suspect they’ll meet after they both die.

Unless something miraculous happens. I can always hope.


17 posted on 04/19/2026 3:58:52 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: MinorityRepublican

Smart politics.


18 posted on 04/19/2026 4:02:09 PM PDT by Miami Rebel (RE)
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I am sure that the two commies will hook up and swap body fluids.


19 posted on 04/19/2026 4:08:19 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( Neocons in love with the Ukraine War hate how long the Iran War is taking..........)
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Bad sign for Catholic Church if big leftist wants to meet the Pope. I knew Francis was bad news when a leftist lunatic I knew admired him.


20 posted on 04/19/2026 4:10:51 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12- 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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