Lindsey Graham Calls the Pope Dumb on Live TV While Defending Trump
Donald Trump has become the golden calf of his party.
Republican lawmakers and politicians are turning to the Catholic Church to defend the president’s warmongering.
Talk with Fox News On Monday evening, Senator Lindsey Graham spoke directly to Pope Leo XIV, telling him that he had “miscalculated” in advocating world peace.
Last week, reports emerged that the Pentagon had openly threatened a Vatican ambassador in January, days after the pope made anti-war remarks during his state of the world address. In the days following that report, Trump made several hostile comments against the head of the Catholic Church, repeatedly attempting to damage the pope’s reputation by claiming that Leo was “terrible for foreign policy” and “low on crime.” This is despite the fact that religious leaders are neither responsible for foreign policy nor responsible for reducing crime rates.
Graham then compared the Iranian Ayatollah to Nazi Germany, saying the religious order really didn’t “haveget“the level of”wrong» that Trump faced in Iran.
Also Monday evening, during a round table on CNNProminent Republican donor Hal Lambert claimed the clash was intended to “try to damage President Trump’s Catholic vote for Republicans in the midterms,” citing former Obama strategist David Axelrod’s visit last week to the Vatican.
The Catholic Church has 1.42 billion baptized members worldwide, more than 70 million In the United States, approximately 20% of Americans identify as Catholic, making it the second most popular religion in the country behind Protestantism.
Vice President JD Vance, who converted to Catholicism in 2019, tried to squash the beef by telling Fox News that “it’s a good thing” that the White House and the Holy See are at odds.
“We will always have disagreements on public policy issues,” Vance says. said. “We certainly have a good relationship with the Vatican, but we’re also going to disagree from time to time on substantive issues, and I don’t think that’s particularly newsworthy.”
However, it’s unclear how “good” this relationship is. Many in the Vatican reportedly interpreted the Pentagon meeting as a threat to use military force against the religious order. The Church has since rejected the White House’s invitation to host the pope for America’s 250th birthday on July 4.
But feuding with a peace-loving pope hasn’t been Trump’s only recent Christian misstep. Over the weekend, Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself as Jesus Christ on his Truth Social, igniting sparks even among some of his most ardent supporters. Several Floridians interviewed by MS now On Monday, they said they were “disgusted” and “ashamed” by the image, which depicts Trump as a haloed messiah.
“It’s a shame. I’m very upset about this. I mean, how selfish can you be?” said John North, a medical laboratory worker. “I’m ashamed that he would actually do this. A man that I voted for and trust. How could he do this? I mean people are going to see this in action. It upsets me.”
Trump has since deleted the post, developer reporters at the White House that he thought it illustrated him as a doctor healing people.
