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The Chris Plante Show

4-16-26 Hour 3 - Callers Weigh in on Trump, Jesus and the Pope

The Chris Plante Show

WMAL | Cumulus Media Washington

News, Government, Politics

4.61.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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0:00.0

Over the weekend, Trump won a social media tirade against the Holy Father, writing quote,

0:08.0

Pope Leo is weak on crime and terrible for foreign policy.

0:12.7

And I have to say, begrudging credit were due, calling the Pope weak on crime is one of the

0:19.1

absolute funniest things he's ever said. I've been

0:22.1

chuckling about it to myself for two days, just banging around my head. The Pope's weak on crime.

0:27.2

Well, that says the communist and mental case. I think he might be transgender. Chris Hayes,

0:33.4

he's the kind of quasi-male version of Rachel Maddow over at MS-13 DNC.

0:40.6

And it's a bad day for me because I had the same reaction when I saw the Pope is weak on crime.

0:47.6

I laughed.

0:48.4

I did laugh out loud.

0:49.7

Now, during the break, I spoke to a nice lady who didn't want to go on the air.

0:54.2

Gloria, and Gloria said she's raised Catholic., she's conservative, she's Trump supporter.

0:58.4

She said, I don't care what he memes out.

1:01.7

He's Trump, and he maybe is our savior for the country.

1:06.8

And she said, and, you know, he can mean she says she's good Catholic.

1:10.7

And whatever the president said with the Pope and so on.

1:15.9

Gloria said, that's fine with me because we need Trump in the Oval Office and people shouldn't get all spun up about something that he put out in a meme and a tweet on truth social.

1:32.5

And I understand that too i do um but the uh just you know you don't have enough time in the day to uh pick a fight with the

1:39.2

pope that you're going to have to follow up on and and uh here there but i see that that the lines have lit up and it was Gene and that

1:50.2

called in and talked about the president and so on, got things lit up. And I'm going to, I'm

1:55.8

going to talk to people. Let's do this. Let's talk to nice people. We do have other items to get to.

2:00.7

We never get through any, on any given day, we don't get through everything because Democrats,

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