No, President Trump: ‘The Catholics’ do not love this.

As a young Catholic girl, I was taught to worship Jesus and revere the pope. I never expected to see a U.S. president insult and mock them both. Unfortunately, President Trump has proven me wrong. 

Trump’s repost of an AI-generated image that obviously showed him posing as Jesus, wearing a long white robe and a red cloak as he healed a sick man surrounded by glowing light, went beyond even my expectations of his erratic behavior. The president absurdly claimed he thought the image of him in ancient garb portrayed him as a doctor but deleted it after it generated widespread criticism.   

Trump also didn’t back down from another post on his Truth Social site attacking Pope Leo XIV, the leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics. Like other popes before him, and clergy of many religions, Leo has called for disputes to be settled peacefully, rather than through war. 

Trump, clearly bothered by the allusion to his and Israel’s war of choice in Iran, called Leo “WEAK on crime” and “terrible for Foreign Policy.” The president also wrote that Leo “should be thankful” to him because “If I wasn’t in the White House, Leo wouldn’t be in the Vatican,” 

“I don’t want a Pope who criticizes the President of the United States because I’m doing exactly what I was elected, IN A LANDSLIDE, to do,” Trump wrote, as if the pope’s moral judgments and religious teachings were determined by election returns. 

In response, Leo said he doesn’t “want to get in a debate” with Trump but has “no........

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