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Playingmantis

(669 posts)
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 10:31 PM 17 hrs ago

Trump attacks Pope! Really

"Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy," Trump wrote. "He talks about 'fear' of the Trump Administration, but doesn’t mention the FEAR that the Catholic Church, and all other Christian Organizations, had during COVID when they were arresting priests, ministers, and everybody else, for holding Church Services, even when going outside, and being ten and even twenty feet apart."

He went on to say that he likes the pope's brother, Louis, "much better" than he likes him, emphasizing Louis's support for MAGA. "He gets it, and Leo doesn’t!" Trump wrote.

Trump claimed that Pope Leo "thinks it's OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon" and that he doesn't want a pope "who thinks its a terrible idea that America attacked Venezuela, a Country that was sending massive amounts of Drugs into the United States and, even worse, emptying their prisons, including murderers, drug dealers, and killers, into our Country."

"And I don’t want a Pope who criticizes the President of the United States because I’m doing exactly what I was elected, IN A LANDSLIDE, to do, setting Record Low Numbers in Crime, and creating the Greatest Stock Market in History," the president added.

https://www.irishstar.com/news/politics/breaking-trump-slams-pope-leo-37002980

Notice how he misrepresents the Pope just like he lies and misrepresents his opponents..DISGUSTING demagogue!

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Trump attacks Pope! Really (Original Post) Playingmantis 17 hrs ago OP
The pope works for the guy who wrote the damn commandments. Irish_Dem 17 hrs ago #1
JD Vance: Are you going to have the spiritual strength to offer your resignation? Prairie Gates 17 hrs ago #2
Couldn't Popes once summon armies? leftstreet 17 hrs ago #3
Trump forgets he was president during Covid Johonny 17 hrs ago #4
This entire regime is hypocritical vapor2 17 hrs ago #5
"sending massive amounts of Drugs into the United States" Trump whines. Norrrm 16 hrs ago #6
And as he also lies about... 2naSalit 16 hrs ago #7
Yep. dalton99a 16 hrs ago #8

Prairie Gates

(8,271 posts)
2. JD Vance: Are you going to have the spiritual strength to offer your resignation?
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 10:39 PM
17 hrs ago

Hasn't this all gone just about far enough?

Vance is releasing a book about how he converted to Catholicism. Yet he brooks these ludicrous and dishonest attacks on the Pope?

Norrrm

(5,200 posts)
6. "sending massive amounts of Drugs into the United States" Trump whines.
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 11:20 PM
16 hrs ago

Yet Trump pardoned the ex-president of Honduras who helped smuggle 400 tons of drugs into our country.

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