The Dope vs The Pope

It’s a given that Orangeyhandias doesn’t give a shit about religion. If people aren’t worshipping him, he doesn’t care. However, since his first election he’s been surrounded by the worst sort of Evangelicals. And I do mean surrounded. And the worst.

These people aren’t fans of Catholicism, to put it mildly. Some Evangelical leaders have tried to tone down the Chick Tract language about Catholics burning in hell, and formed strategic alliances with the worst Catholics so they can make the world the worst place possible. But like Lady Whiteadder, these people think cold is God’s way of telling them to burn more Catholics. And even though the Pope agrees with them on most doctrinal matters, he’s far from awful enough for them.

Plus there’s plain old denomination envy. I’m sure the Evangelical leaders look at the Catholic Church’s numbers and drool when they think of being able to get their claws in more than a billion pockets around the world.

I’m sure Glump hears lots of criticism of Catholicism as a whole and the Pope in particular. Combine that with no filters or impulse control and the fact that the Pope isn’t kissing his ass, or at least shutting up, and anti-Pope tantrumps aren’t surprising.

Another thing that isn’t surprising is the wide range of people telling him to back off. According to this article from the National Catholic Reporter, critics include:

• Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
• Bishop Robert Barron, who is – or was a member of the Religious Liberty Commission at the White House.
• The Dominican Sisters of Peace.
• A Democratic representative, senator and governor (WIAB).
• Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian.
• Pedro Sánchez, prime minister of Spain.
• Jesuit Fr. Antonio Spadaro, undersecretary of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Culture and Education.

But that post is still up, or it was when I started writing this.

Meanwhile, eventhenotliberal FauxNews reported that tRump as your own personal Jesus upset a lot of MAGAllies. This Guardian article notes that he has deleted it.

Less than a year after signing legislation that will pull nearly 12 million Americans off health insurance by gutting Medicaid, Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself to Truth Social on Sunday depicting him as a Jesus Christ-like figure, with divine light emanating from his hands as he heals a stricken man in a hospital bed with a demon from hell floating in the background.

The president has since deleted the post, but not before facing the wrath of some of his most high-profile and loyal Christian supporters, many of whom have stood by the president through multiple other indiscretions and were unable to contain their righteous fury.

This rightie said the quiet part out loud and suggested he was high.

Megan Basham, a writer at the conservative Daily Wire, called the post “OUTRAGEOUS blasphemy”.

“I don’t know if the President thought he was being funny or if he is under the influence of some substance or what possible explanation he could have for this,” she wrote. She demanded Trump “take this down immediately and ask for forgiveness from the American people and then from God”.

While cognitive decline is currently part of his problem, and drug abuse by celebrities is not unusual, not enough people have blamed drugs for his erratic behavior. What stage of drug and dementia-fueled megalomaniacal delusion is believing that the king’s touch is real?

When reporters asked Trump whether he posted a picture depicting himself as Jesus Christ, Trump said “it wasn’t a depiction, it was me”, though he insisted: “It’s supposed to be me as a doctor making people better.”

“And I do make people better. I make people a lot better,” he added.

I think that tRumpJesus got deleted while the pissing and moaning about Pope Leo XIV remains because tRumpJesus upset people who are harder for him to ignore. Those same people have told him not to give a shit about Catholics.

People who post off-topic comments will hunted by whatever the fuck this thing is.