Donald Trump has always struggled with letting things go. No matter how absurd the moment gets, he seems to keep leaning into the same instinct: try to persuade people that his version of events is the reality.
New Jesus-themed post
Trump spent Tuesday night regaling the public with another Truth Social posting spree, then capped it off Wednesday morning with a screenshot of an X post featuring an AI-generated image of Jesus Christ embracing Trump.
The image caption read: “I was never a very religious man ..
but doesn’t it seem, with all these satanic, demonic, child sacrificing monsters being exposed … that God might be playing his Trump card.”
In his own caption, Trump added: “the Radical Left Lunatics might not like this, but I think it is quite nice!!! President DJT” The enthusiasm is unmistakable, even if the reasoning behind it is… well, a lot.
There was a moment in the newsroom on Wednesday when someone’s phone buzzed again—another alert, another repost—and you could almost hear the same question in the room: how much more can this go before it loops back into itself. And honestly, that’s exactly what it did.
Feud with Pope Leo XIV
Trump also, on Tuesday, boosted social media posts drawing attention to Pope Leo’s criticism of him in the years before his ascent to the papacy.
“Not good,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
Over the weekend, he escalated his feud with Leo—who has been vocally critical of the war in Iran—by accusing him of being “WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy.”
“If I wasn’t in the White House, Leo wouldn’t be in the Vatican,” Trump wrote on Sunday.
Then he attacked Leo again on Tuesday.
“Will someone please tell Pope Leo that Iran has killed at least 42,000 innocent, completely unarmed, protesters in the last two months, and that for Iran to have a Nuclear Bomb is absolutely unacceptable,” he wrote.
The Iranian government was nowhere near the creation of a nuclear weapon, but the president has been grasping at straws for weeks now to find a plausible justification for the quagmire he’s created for the nation in the Middle East—even if it means fighting the first American pope.
On Wednesday morning, during an interview with Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo, Trump whined that he’s not getting enough credit.
“I had the greatest year, the greatest opening year,” Trump said.
“I ended eight wars, a ninth is coming, but I ended eight wars — nobody’s ever ended one war.” He added: “The greatest economy ever,” and said, “But even when you have a great president, they tend to lose the midterms.
It doesn’t make sense to me.
We’ve had the greatest year in the history of the presidency, the first year.
We should be given credit.”
“But even when you have a great president, they tend to lose the midterms.
It doesn’t make sense to me.
So we’re going to try turning it around,” he continued.
If Republicans want to “turn it around” in time for the midterms, they may want to start by trying to persuade their leader to stop attacking religious figures while casting himself as a divine savior.
And… he’s probably not going to see it that way.
Not sure he ever does.
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