WHAT a week! Just when you thought Donald Trump couldn’t sink any lower into the amoral pit of his mind, he posts an image of himself looking like Christ healing the sick, with paratroopers, bomber planes, and the American eagle behind him.

It is a blasphemous, even sacrilegious image. And no harm to Vice President Vance; one doesn’t need a doctorate in theology to recognise it.

After much criticism at home and abroad, Trump claimed the image was intended to be him as a doctor, which is about as believable as finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq or nuclear warheads in Iran.

The president doubled down, only to remove the image from his social media site.

Trump also went on a rant to criticise Pope Leo – a man cut from the cloth of St Augustine, the learned and humble saint who defined the components of a just war, which were later refined by St Thomas Aquinas.

By no measurement do the American-Israeli attacks on Iran meet the standards of either.

Trump, in interviews, claims the Bible is his favourite book, but can’t recall a single verse, and that’s despite a host of evangelical pastors regularly praying over him in the Oval Office.

Remember too, at his inauguration, Trump didn’t, as previous presidents have done, place his hand on the Bible during his swearing-in.

(I’ve often wondered if the president ever watched Al Pacino as John Milton, aka the Devil, in the movie The Devil’s Advocate, and had a flashback to the ironic scene where Pacino........

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