For those following Trump’s second presidency, his latest message, in which he shared an artificial image of himself as Jesus, was a logical devolution of his mental state.
It was predictable that Trump would go off the rails, attack the Pope and share an image of himself as Jesus, because the Iran war talks were a total failure and oil prices soared.
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Trump’s strategy has been the same for a decade.
When things go wrong, Trump finds a target and tries to change the subject.
The war in Iran got really bad, so Trump aimed big and attacked Pope Leo.
Trump posted:
Pope Leo is WEAK on crime and terrible on foreign policy. He talks about the “fear” of the Trump administration, but doesn’t mention the FEAR that the Catholic Church and every other Christian organization felt during COVID when they were arresting priests, ministers, and everyone else, for holding religious services, even going out and being ten or even twenty feet apart.
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If I wasn’t in the White House, Leo wouldn’t be in the Vatican. Unfortunately, the fact that Leo is weak on crime, weak on nuclear weapons doesn’t sit well with me, nor does the fact that he meets Obama supporters like David Axelrod, a left-wing LOSER, who was among those who wanted the faithful and religious arrested. Leo should get his act together as pope, use some common sense, stop catering to the needs of the radical left and focus on being a great pope, not a politician. This hurts him very much and, more importantly, it hurts the Catholic Church!
Trump’s attack on the Pope was crazy, but what he posted next was even worse: