Pope Trump the Heretic
Donald Trump recently went viral when, after Pope Francis’ death, someone posted an image of the Ghosts Can’t Do It star in a white cassock and papal headdress on Trump’s Truth Social account.
The official White House Twitter feed then reposted the image because it was, in Trump’s muddled mind, at least, a hilarious joke Catholics adored and the Fake News Media despised.
To Trump, anyone complaining that it was, at the very least, in questionable taste for a greed-and-hatred poisoned sinner famous for bragging about grabbing women by the pussy to publicly post an image of himself as the celibate head of the Catholic Church were, by definition, themselves pussies.
He also confusingly insisted that he had nothing to do with the image, telling the press, "I had nothing to do with it. Somebody made up a picture of me dressed like the pope, and they put it out on the internet. That's not me that did it. I have no idea where it came from. Maybe it was AI, but I know nothing about it. I just saw it last evening.”
It’s curious that the most powerful man in the world apparently doesn’t control what appears on his Truth Social account or the White House official Twitter feed.
It’s similarly perplexing that Trump isn’t entirely sure how the hilariously heretical image came to be, but guessed it was “maybe AI.”
When confronted about the less-than-glowing response the image engendered, Trump gaslit Catholics and blamed the Fake News Media, one of his favorite scapegoats. Others include Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Barack Hussein Obama. DEI, the trans community, undocumented migrants, and the radical left Marxists.
“Catholics loved it” Trump insisted snidely of the reaction to his latest exercise in middle-school-level edgelord shit-posting. It was the “fake news media” who created the clear-cut fiction that Catholics, a famously chill, laidback group that is almost impossible to offend, particularly with shocking or irreverent religious imagery, somehow objected to a man so heinous that back-to-back popes have condemned him chuckling about a hilarious image of him as pope that, again, he somehow had nothing to do with.
A Catholic ex-premier tweeted about Trump’s pope post: “This is an image that offends believers, insults institutions, and shows that the leader of the global right enjoys being a clown. In the meantime, the American economy risks recession, and the dollar loses value. The sovereignists cause damage, everywhere.” “
The New York State Catholic Conference tweeted, “We just buried our beloved Pope Francis, and the cardinals are about to enter a solemn conclave to elect a new successor of St. Peter. Do not mock us.”
There is no transgression Trump can commit that J.D. Vance can’t smugly justify from a place of unearned moral superiority.
Trump could get videotaped sexually assaulting a Labradoodle puppy, and he’d snidely insist, “I’m less worried about the president being playful and having fun with animals in a way that people love than Joe Biden letting millions of criminals into our country to destroy our economy and make us less safe.”
Sure enough, Vance responded to neocon Bill Kristol asking for his take on Trump’s heresy with, “As a general rule, I'm fine with people telling jokes and not fine with people starting stupid wars that kill thousands of my countrymen.”
Apparently, having an image of yourself posted on social media in the garb of the leader of the Catholic Church is Trump, ‘telling a joke’ that only the most uptight moral scold could object to.
Vance is ostensibly Catholic, but if asked to choose between Trump and the Pope, he’d choose Trump over the leader of his faith 125 times out of 100.
There’s something poetically apt about Trump’s social media people cheekily posting an AI image of him as the leader of the Catholic Church.
Trump’s cult doesn’t admire him as a politician: they worship him as a God. Their faith in him is not rooted in facts, experience, or logic but rather blind faith.
The true believers’ blind faith leads them to trust that Trump, a senile, narcissistic man-child violently out of touch with reality, understands tariffs and international trade better than anyone else in the world, including Nobel Prize winners in economics, whom insist that tariffs are a terrible idea that will lead to inflation, increased prices, and a possible/likely recession.
I get so angry when I see Obama in that tan suit. Have some respect, you fucking infidel!
The idea that Donald Trump is to be trusted above all others because of his God-like deal-making genius and unique understanding of human nature, global economics, and international politics is rooted in blind religious faith in Trump as a faultless deity (not unlike Jesus) rather than a sober assessment of the facts.
Trump told The Atlantic, “I run the country and the world.”
Presidents run countries. Gods rule worlds. Trump has placed himself on the level of a god. He doesn’t just angrily demand loyalty or sycophancy; he demands worship.
At cabinet meetings, appointees whose only qualification is blind loyalty gush about Trump in superhuman terms. Like their boss, they speak in superlatives. Trump is the greatest negotiator. He knows more than anyone. No one has been harder on Putin or oligarchs. He knows more about due process and the Constitution. He’s so rich that he’s incorruptible and unbribeable. He presided over the greatest four years in American history and would have repeated that feat if his sacred re-election landslide hadn’t been ripped away from him by the satanic forces of the Deep State.
The Republicans know it’s not true, that Trump is not a God-like intellect and the greatest president of all time, but the religion insists that they deny what they see with their own eyes and believe clear-cut falsehoods.
Trump consequently engaged in self-deprecation rather than self-aggrandizement when he chuckled at the image of himself as the pope on social media, since he clearly sees himself as a deity rather than a mere pontiff.
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