"Donald Trump may not be a church-going man, but he sure loves to invoke God when it suits his wallet or his ego.
From picking fights with the Pope to profiting off the Bible instead of reading it, Trump has turned faith into farce for his own benefit. The MAGA cult has remained bizarrely loyal to its 'savior' of choice – even as he readily admits he is unlikely to make it into heaven.
~ Team Zeteo
"He has such an inflated perception of himself And he has so many people around him that continue to feed this narcissism and this craziness. I mean, he's got these Paula White and Franklin Graham hustlers that are out there constantly referring to him like Jesus. So why are we surprised that he would put something like this on?"
~ Father Michael Pfleger
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https://www.joyannreid.com/p/trump-cosplays-as-jesus-while-sending
A recording from The Joy Reid Show's live video
"One thing that I love of what's happening right now is the Pope is not speaking as a political figure or as a politician. What he is doing is quoting the scriptures ans exposing these hustlers like Paula White and Franklin Graham and all the rest of them who have been hijacking the scriptures to pump this guy up and justify all their evil, their wickedness that they've been doing."
#Trump #PopeLeo #PaulaWhite #FranklinGraham #narcissism #WhiteChristianNationalism #MAGA
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"Now the Pope is saying, Now let me tell you what the scriptures really say. And let me just meet you with the scripture. It's not my words. It's not my politics. It's not my policy. I'm just going to hit you with the scriptures. Blessed are the peacemakers, the children of God. Blessed are the meek."
"In a real sense, with Donald Trump, what you have at MAGA is a war on divinity."
~ William J. Barber
#Trump #PopeLeo #PaulaWhite #FranklinGraham #narcissism #WhiteChristianNationalism #MAGA
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"Bernie Moreno on Trump’s comments about the Pope: 'I was incensed to watch the Pope's comments. I think what the Pope is doing is a disgrace.'
'It's a shame that the Pope has made the Catholic Church political. Thank God my mom’s not alive to watch that'.”
~ Eric Michael Garcia
"It's a shame that the Pope has made the Catholic Church political": a line these folks never uttered when John Paul II was pope.
#Trump #PopeLeo #Republicans #MAGA
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https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:e7gbntp2tzobn7cfi37viei3/post/3mjft2txrvs2q
Bernie Moreno on Trump’s comments about the Pope: “I was incensed to watch the Pope's comments. I think what the Pope is doing is a disgrace.” “It's a shame that the Pope has made the Catholic Church political. Thank God my mom’s not alive to watch that.”
"American evangelicals say the Pope should stay out of politics."
~ Michael Jarboe
Greg Sargent asks Robert P. Jones,
"So Robert, I wonder if part of what we’re seeing here is that in Trump’s genuine understanding of the situation, evangelicals really do matter a lot more within his base than Catholics do. What does the data show on that?"
Robbie replies,
"That’s right. His strongest supporters have always been white evangelical Protestants."
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"They have voted more than eight in 10 for him every time he has been on the ballot. Catholics are a much more complex story. His support among Catholics has actually been split pretty starkly along racial and ethnic lines.
He’s always had white non-Hispanic Catholics with him, but they vote about six in 10 for him, not 85 percent for him."
#Trump #PopeLeo #Republicans #MAGA #Catholics #evangelicals
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"The real difference is that inside the Catholic Church, Hispanic Catholics have actually voted Democratic, typically. In the last election, it was only about 43 percent of Hispanic Catholics that supported him, compared to 60 percent of white Catholics. There’s this racial tension inside the Catholic Church, and it’s just not a monolith in the way that it is among white evangelicals."
#Trump #PopeLeo #Republicans #MAGA #Catholics #evangelicals
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"A majority of U.S. Catholic voters supported Donald Trump in his 2024 presidential victory. Yet across the broad Catholic political spectrum – even among conservative-leaning bishops – there is dismay over Trump’s unprecedented verbal assault on Pope Leo XIV, the first American to lead their church."
~ David Crary, Peter Smith, and Steve Peoples
#Trump #PopeLeo #Republicans #MAGA #Catholics #evangelicals
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A majority of U.S. Catholic voters supported Donald Trump in his 2024 presidential victory. However, there is dismay in Catholic ranks over Trump’s verbal assault on Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope. Leo says he is sharing a Gospel message, not directly attacking Trump. Criticism of Trump came from Archbishop Paul Coakley and Bishop Robert Barron, who called Trump’s remarks “entirely inappropriate.” Dismay extended to conservative Christian evangelicals over another issue. Many were appalled by Trump posting an image seeming to depict him as a Christ-like savior. By midday Monday, the image had been taken down from Truth Social.
"David Gibson, director of Fordham University’s Center on Religion and Culture, noted that many lay Catholics have been standing by Trump in recent weeks and have been critical of their bishops who critique the president.
'If this attack on the pope does not shift that dynamic in a marked way it will truly be a watershed moment ... with American Catholics choosing a Catholic-baiting president over their own pope,' Gibson said."
#Trump #PopeLeo #Republicans #MAGA #Catholics #evangelicals
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Goodness, I just saw Roger Stone's name in there as a look-back. I had kinda thought he had died, but I looked him up, and he's still chugging along. Yuck.
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