Will Trump regret taking on the Pope?
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The Guardian
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🗓️ 17 April 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:09.0 | Today, Trump takes on the other most powerful American on the planet. |
| 0:20.3 | Donald Trump's late-night social media meltdowns are now the stuff of legend, |
| 0:25.7 | but even by his standards, last Sunday was epic. |
| 0:30.3 | Throughout the night, until 4 a.m., the president was busy on his truth social account, |
| 0:36.8 | and squeezed in between posts on his new ballroom and Joe Biden was a bizarre attack on Pope |
| 0:43.5 | Leo, God's representative on earth to 1.4 billion Catholics. |
| 0:51.2 | Clearly angry over the Pope's criticism of his war in Iran, he called him weak on crime and terrible on foreign policy. |
| 0:59.8 | Then just 46 minutes later, the president posted a, quite frankly, bonkers, AI-generated picture of himself as Jesus, basking in a holy glow. |
| 1:14.9 | Trump is laying hands on a sick person in a bed. He's surrounded both by somebody who looks |
| 1:22.3 | like a nurse, someone who looks like a praying figure, someone who is clearly a soldier or a military figure. |
| 1:29.5 | And in the background, there's an American flag, fighter planes, the Statue of Liberty, the Lincoln |
| 1:36.3 | Memorial. It's crazy in only the way an AI image can be. |
| 1:45.5 | The backlash from the most dedicated Trump diehards |
| 1:50.0 | from both his Catholic and his evangelical supporters |
| 1:53.8 | was swift and damning. |
| 1:56.4 | This is blasphemy. |
| 1:58.9 | You've got angels that are soldiers or something. |
| 2:01.3 | You've got Donald Trump clearly portraying himself as God. |
| 2:05.6 | This is exactly what the Bible calls blasphemy. |
| 2:08.6 | Yeah, I'm ashamed. |
| 2:09.6 | I'm ashamed that he would actually do that. |
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