After joking to reporters outside the White House Wednesday, April 30 that he'd like to be the next pope, President Donald Trump later suggested a more serious − and more qualified − candidate to assume the papacy following Pope Francis' recent death.

First, Donald Trump joked during a conversation with reporters that he would like to become the pope himself, and then he suggested a specific candidate for the new head of the Church: Timothy Dolan,

Dolan is a cardinal; he is under age 80 (although Popes can be older than that), and he is a baptized Catholic male. The new Pope will be chosen by a conclave of cardinals, who vo