So, America, it's come to this...a 79 year old short fingered vulgarian screams at the POPE to "get his act together"

[Miles Archer]

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2676704361/

"Enough of the idolatry of self and money!” Leo said on Saturday, according to the Associated Press. “Enough of the display of power! Enough of war!”

Trump responded to Pope Leo's criticisms on Sunday on Truth Social.

"Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy. 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," Trump wrote. "I like his brother Louis much better than I like him, because Louis is all MAGA. He gets it, and Leo doesn’t!"

"I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s terrible 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," Trump added. "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."

"Leo should get his act together as Pope, use Common Sense, stop catering to the Radical Left, and focus on being a Great Pope, not a Politician. It’s hurting him very badly and, more importantly, it’s hurting the Catholic Church!" Trump continued.

[Irish_Dem]

1. This cannot be real. Is it The Onion?

Even Trump cannot be getting into a shouting and insulting match with the POPE.

[Maru Kitteh]

5. About being "weak on crime" as a header, no less.

Stupid, evil and dementia all rolled into a limp little porky taco. Negative stars on Yelp. Do not suggest trying them.

[Irish_Dem]

7. Even acutely psychotic people make some sort of sense.

Trump is just total world salad at this point.

Yep stupid, demential, evil all rolled into one very dangerous maniac.

[Cha]

12. Fucking PEDO Projecting Again.. Pardons

Domestic Terrorists & Drug Kingpins.

[Maru Kitteh]

45. I'm re-reading this, thinking it might have been Gollum that wrote this one.

At first glance, I read the and thought “he’s so stupid he thinks he’s in charge of the Pope because Leo is ‘The First American Pope.’” But I just don’t think he wrote this. This seems written by someone who cares about religion trying to hide behind Trump’s legendary idiocy. It seems written by somebody who thinks they know how to go about manipulating people on a religious basis. Somebody with a dog in that fight. Somebody who honestly kinda seems to hate Trump a little.

Who knows.

[Cha]

54. Interesting... because I mostly won't

read what he has to Lie about.... just the "soft on crime.." prat.

I just don't have the stomach for it.

Mahalo, Maru ☮️🌻🕯️🕊️💜🌈🌊

[jls4561]

8. The Pope has no need to shout. He has a better wingman than JD.

[Irish_Dem]

10. I always point out that Jesus threw the damn money lenders out of the temple.

Kicked them out on their asses and probably cussed up a storm too.

I hope the pope channels his wingman.

[Miles Archer]

16. I also like the way he's on a first name basis with "LEO."

None of that stuffy "respect" crap like "His Eminence" or "His Holiness" like the dude would get from Obama or Biden.

How the HELL did America SIGN OFF ON THIS?

[Irish_Dem]

26. Greatest moral collapse in US history.

The US has totally lost its way.

[wnylib]

17. Maybe Hegseth wrote it.

But it is Trump's style.

[Irish_Dem]

64. Trump's group is so crazy we can't tell who is writing what.

It is all insanity. Yes has Hegseth's tone but Trump words.

[wnylib]

67. Hegseth is the most insane of all of them.

Trump puts on phony beliefs for political reasons.

Hegseth actually believes the things that come out of his own mouth.

[Irish_Dem]

69. I agree. And he is quite dangerous.

He truly believes all this false male bravado.
And that he is anointed by God.

As the leader of the US military is he going to put our troops in harm's way.

On top of his insanity he is drunk all the time.

US generals are not happy campers right now.

[wnylib]

71. Not only insane because he believes that he is

God's anointed one, but because of how he defines God as a projection of himself.

[Irish_Dem]

74. Most acute psychotics do not think they are better than God.

Hegseth is really insane.

[wnylib]

78. I did a little online search using the words "delusion of grandeur."

I found responses that included delusions of divinity. A couple responses said that narcissists can have divinity delusions. Also mentioned were the manic stage of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

Hegseth hasn't, AFAIK, said that he is God. But like a lot of religious fanatics, his concept of God is a projection of his own traits onto God. So Hegseth is an angry, belligerent person who believes that he has to destroy enemies (people who don't agree with him). Therefore, his concept of God is a divine being that is angry, belligerent, and a destroyer of enemies who don't agree with him (God).

Consequently, Hegseth believes that God chose him to do the "divine work," of waging war against his (Hegseth's) enemies, like Iran and other individuals or groups who don't agree with him because, in Hegseth's mind, God's enemies are Hegseth's enemies. Very conveniently, Hegseth has a God who gives Hegseth permission to kill Hegseth's enemies in the name of doing God's will. .

[Irish_Dem]

79. I have long thought Trump is bipolar. And Hegseth could be as well.

And of course they are both narcissists.

So yes these disorders have delusions of grandeur.

I am just saying that most times when a psychologist goes to evaluate
acute psychosis in the hospital ER, they don't usually see people who
think they are better than God. They might be getting commands or help from
God. They might think they are Elvis or the Beatles.

But insisting they are Jesus. Nope, don't see that every day.

[BlueKota]

34. The Catholic Church doesn't have the numbers it used to, but

its still the largest religious denomination in the U.S. and the World. Tsf needs to be reminded of that loud and clear.

If I were the Pope, I'd tell tsf if he wants the Pope to stay out of politics, then the tsf and his minions need to stay out of religion, and quit pretending that their so called deep faith, is anything but a ploy, to fool the gullible into voting for them.

[niyad]

37. It may be the largest single denomination, but only about 20-22 % of American

adults identify as catholic, practicing or not, while some 45 % identify as protestant (and yes, I know that there are various denominations under that umbrella). Some 17 % catholics worldwide.

[JBTaurus83]

56. And many of us are former or cultural Catholics

Who are very offended by this shit from the pig. Just as he’s managed to unite people in Iran, he may also unite anyone with Catholic background.

[Irish_Dem]

63. Trump wants the money, power, respect the Pope has.

Trump also has to destroy anything people love or value.
He cannot stand it, all the love and respect in the world should be going to HIM.

Trump does not respect anybody else's turf.

[rustbeltvoice]

39. like the hell he can't

[Irish_Dem]

61. The orange SOB surprises even me and I am shock proof.

[rustbeltvoice]

70. malignant narcissism

Erich Fromm's, The Heart of Man: Its Genius for Good and Evil, 1964, Fromm used the term “malignant narcissism.” That defines Trump.
“It is a madness that tends to grow in the lifetime of the afflicted person. The more he tries to be a god, the more he isolates himself from the human race; this isolation makes him more frightened, everybody becomes his enemy, and in order to stand the resulting fright he has to increase his power, his ruthlessness, and his narcissism.”

John Gartner has for several years tried to focus America on this.
“Trump suffers from malignant narcissism, a diagnosis [that is] far more toxic and dangerous than mere narcissistic personality disorder because it combines narcissism with three other severely pathological components: paranoia, sociopathy, and sadism. When combined, this perfect storm of psychopathology defines the ‘quintessence of evil,’ according to Fromm, the closest thing psychiatry has to describing a true human monster.”

Gartner's comrade, Howard Marks, The Shallow State @OurShallowState
“Narcissistic Mortification is when a narcissist like Trump crosses over to a place where he sees visions of his own demise. A malignant narcissist who once held the loftiest of titles, cannot cope with this. Trump's fears have become "dread." He is very unhinged, yet uncomfortable in the feeling itself, because he knows he's partly responsible. Reality is being forced upon him, that's not of his making. He can't have that!
To put it in more psychological terms, narcissistic mortification is EXTREME fear experienced when one with a rigidly grandiose pathology sees his sense of self as exposed, defective or inferior. It was coined by Freud in his book Moses and Monotheism.”

I have maintained that trump is demonic. No one that evil, stupid, and incompetent could advance that far without active protection of the Devil. No one in recorded history has told more lies than him. The father of lies is the Devil, trump is protege and apprentice.

[Irish_Dem]

75. Trump is a narcissist, psychopath, and long time drug addict.

I have not ruled out bipolar either.

The man is very dangerous.
Yet the country adores him.

I agree, sometimes insanity crosses a line into pure evil.
Trump is evil to his core.

[Sparkly]

43. I thought Borowitz

when I glanced at the NYTimes headline, "Trump attacks Pope."

[Irish_Dem]

60. "The Pope is easy on crime."

I thought that had to be a joke.

[Bettie]

66. You don't give the guy credit for the

terrible, terrible version of humanity he is.

He's literally the worst person in the world....the least self-aware, the least emotionally intelligent....he's what a focus group would come up with to portray a villain and then have it rejected as "too over the top".

[SheltieLover]

2. Quiet slob.

[Keepthesoulalive]

3. The pressure is getting to him

That is the most incredible incoherent word salad he has uttered since trying to extort Iran.

[Irish_Dem]

13. I agree, he is in a desperate spiral.

An even more dangerous stage is ahead of us.

He thinks he is better than God.

[Keepthesoulalive]

31. He thinks he is god.

And whenever someone thinks that we remove them from society and put them in a long term facility.

[Irish_Dem]

32. Yes he is becoming more dangerous by the day.

If he were anyone else he would be in prison or in a locked inpatient psych unit.

[Rhiannon12866]

51. An attorney on MS NOW awhile back said that the felon's lawyers ought to look into putting him in a "facility"

So he could avoid prison, but he knew that they never would...

[Irish_Dem]

58. Too many Americans love what Trump is doing.

They think God sent him as a gift to the world.

Sounds like a big group of Americans needs to be a locked facility.

[rustbeltvoice]

40. only Satan's apprentice

[Keepthesoulalive]

47. Satan won't have him

It is reported that the Angel who went against god said, “this idiot is too stupid to join us he would degrade the intellect down here”.

[Irish_Dem]

59. My Irish grandmother used to say about a bad person: "The Devil won't have him."

Shaking her head in disgust.

Someone so bad, he is not even fit for hell.

My Irish grandmother was a happy go lucky type, merry, good humor, etc.
So I knew someone had to be quite bad for her to go into a dark scowl and
say he was so bad the devil rejected him.

I keep thinking about that statement and Trump.

[Diamond_Dog]

4. What an egomaniacal POS Trump is.

[Raven123]

6. Ball is in your court, Bishop Barron, Cardinal Dolan and the entire

United States Roman Catholic leadership who have aligned themselves with Trump.

[Irish_Dem]

11. Do they side with the Pope or the orange F wad?

[Cha]

9. lololololol All I can do is laugh at

the Sickeningly Fucking Projecting PEDO .

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

14. Anyone need further evidence that the orange Don has completely snapped his tether?

[newdeal2]

15. So when is he opening up a church honoring himself?

That’s where I see this going. He’ll open up a bunch as franchises and have his painting next to Jesus. Of course all donations go to him.

[Miles Archer]

19. "You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion." ― L. Ron Hubbard

It's worth noting that Scientology vigorously denies this being an actual quote from Hubbard.

[calimary]

49. One of the all-time best and most painfully truthful quotes.

“You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion." ― L. Ron Hubbard

[wnylib]

21. He'd claim that the J in his name is for Jesus, except

that he'd fear someone would think he was Latino.

[muriel_volestrangler]

65. I suspect you've seen this already, but he posted this about the time you were writing

I’m not sure it has broken through to the general public that the president is a megalomaniac crazy person. Hopefully posts like this help.

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-04-13T02:44:03.727Z

"Next to Jesus"? No, replacing him. After all, Jesus was weak on crime too.

[newdeal2]

68. The prophecy is fulfilled nt

[blogslug]

18. He's not your pope, Donald

And he has his act together just fine:

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

20. Techno Pope

Not what I would have expected but the young folks seem to like it.

[Aviation Pro]

38. I thought he was going to be cast as the techno viking

…..

[GenThePerservering]

53. I'm an old folk

and this slaps!

[Permanut]

22. So now I expect we'll hear from the 56% of Catholics..

who voted for Mango Mussolini, explaining their support, and their plans for the midterms.

[Buddyzbuddy]

46. I'm guessing my Mexican brethren that voted for this

dope are a much higher concentration of Catholics than 56% and I hope they're taking notice and regretting their choice.

[Permanut]

52. Roger that..

Some of our hispanic friends have stopped communicating; waiting for this nightmare to be over.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

23. Donny's had his ass kissed too often by the Christian Nationalists

He wonders why Pope Leo won't do the same.

[edbermac]

24. A felon and a rapist accusing someone else of being weak on crime

[Doodley]

25. "Republicans even abandoned Christian values to attack the Pope." Trump keeps writing the midterm election campaign.

[Dave Bowman]

27. Quiet, Piggy. 🖕

[misanthrope]

28. I LOVE IT!

My condescending and highly conservative in-laws are going through some stuff right now and I am here for every second of it.

[bif]

29. STFU Lil' Donnie!

[misanthrope]

30. Maybe Trump and the Catholic Church can mend fences by bonding

over their shared protection of pedophiles.

[usonian]

33. TRUCK FUMP, because it's Sunday.

Speak to me Monday.

BTW, Jesus forgives, because people repent.
Trump forgives because they don't.

cuz he's .... uhhh

[Tasmanian Devil]

35. The full post

His full post deserves to be read slowly, with feeling. Note he's also taking credit for Leo having been chosen as the Pope.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116394704213456431

Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy. 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. I like his brother Louis much better than I like him, because Louis is all MAGA. He gets it, and Leo doesn’t! I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon. I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s terrible 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. Leo should be thankful because, as everyone knows, he was a shocking surprise. He wasn’t on any list to be Pope, and was only put there by the Church because he was an American, and they thought that would be the best way to deal with President Donald J. Trump. If I wasn’t in the White House, Leo wouldn’t be in the Vatican. Unfortunately, Leo’s Weak on Crime, Weak on Nuclear Weapons, does not sit well with me, nor does the fact that he meets with Obama Sympathizers like David Axelrod, a LOSER from the Left, who is one of those who wanted churchgoers and clerics to be arrested. Leo should get his act together as Pope, use Common Sense, stop catering to the Radical Left, and focus on being a Great Pope, not a Politician. It’s hurting him very badly and, more importantly, it’s hurting the Catholic Church! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Next week he'll be demanding to be made a saint along with that overdue peace prize.

25th 4 and impeachment both!

[calimary]

50. I'll take BOTH, Monty!

[dalton99a]

36. .

[travelingthrulife]

73. You just ensured Iran will be able to have nuclear weapons for protection.

[SomedayKindaLove]

41. So you're saying...

Pope Leo fears you like the priests feared Covid? I’m not sure comparing yourself to Covid is sound strategy during an election year but sure why not at this point

[BidenRocks]

42. Not my president!

[Joinfortmill]

44. I doubt Trump wrote that. My guess is Stephen Miller .

[sinkingfeeling]

48. What nonsense. Proves TSF doesn't have a clue what religion is about.

[summer_in_TX]

55. I suspect Trump is reacting to this from the Pope yesterday.

Christopher Hale

1d
NEW: Pope Leo XIV’s close ally Cardinal Robert McElroy received a standing ovation at the end of his homily, where he called on Catholics to take up civic action to help end the “immoral” war against Iran.

“When we leave this church tonight, we must move beyond prayer. As citizens and believers in this democracy that we cherish so deeply, we must advocate for peace with our representatives and leaders.
“It is not enough to say we have prayed. We must also act. For it is very possible that the negotiations will fail because of recalcitrance on both sides, and the president will move to re-enter this immoral war.
“At that critical juncture, as disciples of Jesus Christ called to be peacemakers in the world, we must answer vocally and in unison:
“No. Not in our name. Not at this moment. Not with our country.”

LETTERS FROM LEO — THE AMERICAN POPE & US POLITICS
“Enough of War” — Pope Leo XIV Denounces the “Delusion of Omnipotence” at St. Peter's Prayer Vigil

[AZJonnie]

57. The bit about Maduro "emptying the prisons" and sending murderers and rapists and tren de aragua was long ago debunked

Or, rather, when you looked into it, it was this ONE "former agent" (or the like) who it turned out was clearly conflating two totally separate DHS bulletins into one storyline. IOW, it's not an intel report, it's there's this one dude who made this claim in some interview, that then got spread far and wide in RWNJ circles. Where IQ47 apparently caught wind of it, and he's never let go of this bullshit story since.

It's fucking pathetic

[malaise]

62. Meh for a desperate attempt at diversion

Yesterday the Euro RWs, Donvict, Rubio, Vance, CPAC, Fux, Fucker Carlson , dead hero Charlie, MAGAts, ReTHUGs et al were humiliated by the Hungarian people.
Keep on digging more holes losers. November is coming.

[Kid Berwyn]

72. C'mon, Pope Leo! Block the Strait of Hormuz.

Or unblock the Strait of Hormuz.

Either way, show Dimdonniechucklenuts how it's done.

[Vinca]

76. If only we could escort Dear Leader into an ER and request a 30-day committal for evaluation.

[dweller]

77. Not today SPRAYTAN !

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