Apparently there's an NBC poll showing that Pope Leo leads in US approval ratings.

That's why Trump is trying to pick a fight with him. Orange Führer can't stand it if somebody is more popular than him. It's petty jealousy, plain and simple.

#PopeLeoXIV
#TrumpIsANationalDisgrace

(P.S. Lots of organizations reporting on this poll, but I can't find a primary source. If y'all have one, will you leave it in comments please? Thanks! 🤘✌️🖖)

“Trump’s deteriorating mental state has become impossible to overlook, but Republicans are making excuses for it. ... But Raskin’s measure will force Republicans in Congress either to vote for an independent commission to evaluate Trump or to own his increasingly erratic behavior themselves.”

#Politics #USPolitics #TrumpMentalFitness #CongressActNow #25thAmendment #ImpeachTrumpNow #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace #LettersFromAnAmerican

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-14-2026

“About 45 minutes after attacking the Pope, Trump posted an image of himself in the place of Jesus, apparently healing a sick man in a bed, surrounded by a soldier, a nurse, a woman praying, and an older man. ... Amid popular revulsion at what people are calling heresy and blasphemy, former U.S. representative Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote: ‘It’s more than blasphemy. It’s an Antichrist spirit.’”

#Politics #USPolitics #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace #LettersFromAnAmerican

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-12-2026

Making his priorities clear: “Trump continues to try to shore up the international right-wing authoritarian project even as people are turning against it. Today he threw the economic might of the United States of America behind Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán, who gutted Hungary’s democracy and turned the country into an authoritarian state.”

#Politics #USPolitics #HungarianElections #Authoritarianism #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace #LettersFromAnAmerican

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-10-2026

“Art of the Deal” my a$$: “Yesterday the president posted his own interpretation of the terms of the [ceasefire] agreement, but they were aspirational and asked for Iran to agree to terms that were less advantageous for the U.S. than the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) that President Barack Obama negotiated in 2015 and Trump tore up in 2018.”

#Politics #USPolitics #IranWar #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace #EpsteinFiles #MelaniaEpsteinVisa #LettersFromAnAmerican

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-9-2026

But no automatic registration to vote or for Medicare for All: “President Trump plans to automatically sign up military draft-eligible men for a potential draft, an ominous decision to make in the midst of a war on Iran.” 🤬

#Politics #USPolitics #SelectiveService #MilitaryDraft #IranWar #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace #TrumpBoneSpurs #TrumpDraftDodger

https://newrepublic.com/post/208839/automatic-registration-us-military-draft

And so the backlash begins: “The most bloodthirsty MAGA acolytes are fuming at President Trump’s two-week ceasefire deal with Iran and his capitulation to its 10-point plan—a major win for the Iranian government.” 🙄

#Politics #USPolitics #IranWar2026 #IranCeasefire #MAGA #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace #TrumpIsARussianAsset #TacoTrump

https://newrepublic.com/post/208762/maga-reaction-trump-iran-ceasefire-deal

What a f*cking mess:

“The White House’s plans to completely annihilate Iran are so haphazard that even the vice president can’t keep up with them.

JD Vance was apparently caught off guard Tuesday when a journalist informed him that Donald Trump had threatened to obliterate the entire Iranian civilization by 8 p.m. Vance was onstage in Budapest at the time, feet away from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.”

#Politics #USPolitics #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace #IranWar

https://newrepublic.com/post/208724/jd-vance-donald-trump-iran-attack

Congress and the cabinet are absolutely complicit in the Orange Madman’s actions: “Journalist Steven Beschloss wrote: ‘This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.’”

#Politics #USPolitics #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace #TrumpWarCrimes #ImpeachConvictRemove #LettersFromAnAmerican

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-5-2026