Glenn Reacts to Breaking News: American Pope Chosen, Trump and Netanyahu Split Over War with Iran, MAHA Drama, and More
System Update with Glenn Greenwald
Rumble
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2025
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
The U.S. celebrates the conclave's election of the first American pope while commentators scramble to parse his political beliefs. Is Pope Leo XIV MAGA? Is he a "Woke Marxist Pope?" Then: Is Trump really splitting with Netanyahu and pursuing his own America-First policy in the Middle East? Finally: Casey Means's nomination exposes a rift in MAHA world and Trump selects another Fox News host for a key position.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. It is, I don't know what date it is. I think it might be May 9th. That's my guess. |
| 0:21.0 | I think it is May 9th. |
| 0:21.9 | Actually, it is May 9th. |
| 0:23.0 | May 9th. |
| 0:24.1 | Welcome to a new episode of System Update. |
| 0:26.2 | Oh, it's May 8th, I'm told. |
| 0:28.6 | May 8th. |
| 0:29.2 | I just want to make a correction for the record. |
| 0:32.0 | Welcome to a new episode of System Update, |
| 0:33.7 | our live nightly show that there is every single Monday through Friday every |
| 0:38.1 | single Monday through Friday no exception starting at 7 p.m. Eastern exclusively |
| 0:42.9 | here on Rumble the free speech alternative to YouTube tonight the headline |
| 0:47.1 | news in most countries in the world is the selection of Cardinal Robert |
| 0:51.5 | Prevost to be the new leader of the Catholic Church, replacing the prior Pope Francis, who died late last month. |
| 0:57.8 | Prevost is now known as Pope Leo the 14th. |
| 1:01.3 | Born in Chicago, he is the first ever American Pope in the history of the Catholic Church. |
| 1:06.4 | Though, as a fluent Spanish speaker, he has also done substantial work in the church in Latin America. |
| 1:12.1 | He's widely viewed as a close ally of Pope Francis and to some extent, at least likely to |
| 1:17.4 | follow in his footsteps. Now, I'm not a theologian or a historian of the Catholic Church or even |
| 1:23.2 | a member of the Catholic Church, so I don't want to posture someone with expertise in the conclave |
| 1:28.7 | or in church matters. But what I do think is worthy of attention is the reaction of political |
| 1:32.6 | and media figures in the U.S. to his selection. As is true for almost everything now, his life |
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