It's Monday, May 5th. I'm Aaron Ryan, in for Jane Koston, and this is What a Day, the show that knows why Alcatraz closed in the first place because it was too expensive.

On the show, President Donald Trump hits the shrug emoji when asked about whether he needs to

uphold that old thing called the Constitution, and the White House comes for Elmo and tries to cut

funding for NPR and PBS. But let's start with President Trump making the upcoming papal

conclave about himself. The official White House account tweeted out an AI-generated photo

on Friday of Trump's sitting on a golden throne and dressed like the Pope, move that did not go

over well with the world's one and a half billion Catholics who are mourning the recent death

of Pope Francis. Trump's original I Should Be Pope joke came right before he appeared to support the papal candidacy

of Archbishop of New York, Timothy Dolan. Cardinal Dolan disavowed the image on Sunday.

I hope he didn't have anything to do with that. Are you offended by that?

Well, you know, it wasn't good. That Italian dikeno and Brutofaguer.

That's Italian for making a fool of yourself. If Dolan doesn't end up being Pope, one could

argue that this makes the third global election Trump swayed in an anti-Trump direction

simply by being himself after Canada early last week and Australia over the weekend. Also on Sunday,

NBC aired the president's interview with Meet the Press's Kristen Walker, and he went full

grinch on a public already nervous about his tariff scheme. I'm just saying they don't need to have

$30. They can have three. They don't need to have 250 pencils. They can have five. Those kids demanding

their 250 pencils. Turns out the American people just need a touch more than trust me, bro, on a

sweeping plan to make everything more expensive, brought to you by the man who had promised

during the campaign to make everything less expensive. We'll get into some of the sound bites and substance of

that interview later. Shockingly, a man who spent literal years of his life being driven around

on a golf cart rather than walking thinks that following the Constitution would be, oh, so much work.

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