A brief history of Trump's feud with Pope Francis

[ShazzieB]

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/21/g-s1-61636/trump-pope-francis

President Trump has acknowledged the pope's death in a one-line post on Truth Social, writing: "Rest in Peace Pope Francis! May God Bless him and all who loved him!"

Trump and Francis clashed repeatedly in recent years. Trump praised the pope at the start of Francis's papacy, in 2013, several years before Trump reached the White House.

"The new Pope is a humble man, very much like me, which probably explains why I like him so much!" Trump tweeted in December of that year, several months after Francis became pope.

Things soured soon after. During the 2016 election, Francis roundly criticized Trump's campaign proposal to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Much more at the link.

EDITED to add this very telling photo from Trump's meeting with the Pope in 2017.

[Kid Berwyn]

1. Traitor trump is not insane.

He is just plain evil.

[efhmc]

2. No, not just plain evil but elaborately deluxe country destroying evil.

[ShazzieB]

3. I didn't say he was insane.

But in a legal sense, he is not. The legal definition of insanity is being incapable of understanding whether one's actions are right or wrong. Schlump is certainly not insane in that sense. He's perfectly capable of knowing what the laws are and when he is breaking one (or several). He just doesn't care, because he has antisocial personality disorder (along with narcissistic personality disorder) and regards right and wrong as abstract concepts that have no bearing on him. He knows what the laws are, but he regards them as irrelevant.

Evil has multiple definitions, and many of those definitions definitely apply to him