Trump Posting Apparent AI Photo of Himself as the Pope Takes Off Online

He’s the goofus shitposting as a distraction while they steal our democracy

EXACTLY! Ignore him.

Mental illness on display. Fuck his mother for not aborting him when she had the chance.

Trump has selected the most incompetent administration in history because he is the most incompetent president in history. Remove Trump!

This is what America voted for.

Next up: Trump wins Project Runway All Stars, Top Chef and Wimbledon

It just keeps getting worse.

This would be considered bad comedy except that it's actually happening.

Critical mass can't come fast enough.

Bringing a powerful new meaning to Pope on a Rope.

Won’t this offend Catholics?

I believe his intention (or the intention of whoever’s posting for him) is specifically to offend Catholics, but for what reason, I couldn’t say. Other than he likes to offend everyone.

I’d be interested to know what rad trad Catholic convert JD thinks of this. You know he hates Trump with a passion and is biding his time until he can take over.

Whore of Babylon!

End times.

Lol.

He's a fucking lunatic.

Six of the nine justices of the Supreme Court are Catholic. I can't see most of them thinking this is very funny.

Amateur!

He doesn’t give a shit about Catholics anymore now that he got the SCOTUS to ban abortion

I’m all for Trump becoming Pope if that means he leaves for the Vatican

frociaggine

This is what the Democrats lost to, backed by more than enough money to win two elections , the best the Dems had, lost all 7 battle ground states and the popular vote to this strange man .

If the Democratic Party was a horse the poor lame thing would be put down

Sure the Democrats need help reaching fickle people but talking plans and policy no longer works . But what do you do to reach an electorate willing to cast their votes for this piece of shit? The problem is the rot in the American public as much as anything.

At the end of the day, I'm sure a sizeable percentage of Catholic MAGAs would choose Dump over Church, especially if the next pope is anything other than a hardline traditionalist.

R20 help reaching fickle people :-)

The dems today are seen as weak soft trans and woke supporting pussies. The issue is not how true this is the issue is this is how the party is seen, Even by many traditional dems.. That is why we are losing young men.

And despite Donald Trump as president Democratic Party support continues to drop

"Grab 'em by the pussy," "I could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and still not lose votes," calling women fat pigs, raping, lying, cheating, racism, the list goes on and on... The only being Donald Trump worships is Donald Trump. And these so-called "Christians" still support him? They must've read a different Bible than the one I know about.

The only thing worse then this sicko are the mental defectives who voted for it.

With Miss Lindsey by his side in Washington, DC, Mar-a-Lago, Bedminister, and elsewhere, Trump is emboldened to declare anything.

MAGA barbarians think revolting and trolling the entire world rules. Foreigners were born to cower and give us their lunch money as far as they’re concerned.

R20 Bernie is one of very few Democrats offering a real populist policy message and party leadership still is more focused on preventing the party from going in a popular policy direction than fighting Trump. If you thought Kamala’s economic policy or the messaging around it was anywhere near sufficient then we really are fucked.

Our President is mad- and many other things.. it’s mind boggling and even more so are those who support him.

" Oh, that Donald. What a jokester."

r28 I think part of the problem is that Dump and his antics have been normalized on the national political stage since June 2015.

R27 Bernie Sanders and his little protege AOC still turn off a good amount of Americans. If AOC runs for POTUS in 2028 and gets the Dem nomination--she will lose in a general election.

Nobody cares about any of his antics.. All they care about is preserving their own power.

I don't see AOC getting the nomination. More likely her as a "broker" on behalf of Progressives.

r33 well, the pope DOES have to be male ...

R34: somehow, the thread drifted to pres politics away from Pope; that's what I was responding to.

My "litmus test" for whether or not Trump has done or said something completely fucked up, is "How would the media react if Joe Biden or Barack Obama had done this?"

Can you just IMAGINE the outrage and uproar towards President Obama or President Biden, if they had done something like this?

And yet, not a peep from either the mainstream media or MAGAT world.

That just shows you how this asshole maniac gets a pass, after pass, after pass from them.

They just think he's kidding and , if criticized, will say," Can't you take a joke?"

Keep blaming the Democrats, r19. Don't forget to keep bringing up the trans!

Making him the Pope could be the first step to President Trump's sainthood!

Great! Take him off our hands, Catholic Church!

Cardinal Dolan said Trump "takes his Christian faith seriously.

In the meatime, Kilmer Garcia was kidnapped by ICE, denied due process, and sent to an El Salvadore concentration camp. Trump "who takes his Christian faith seriously" allowed, aided and abetted this horrific tragedy. Cardinal Dolan should intervene, to bring Mr. Garcia home, to his family. Of course, he remains silent. He's despicable and values Trump more than rescuing Mr. Garcia.

Biden still feels he's up to the job, was persuaded to exit when confronted with public perception of his situation so dire he wouldn't win.

He looks embalmed in that picture; does he want to the The Pope or The Dead Pope?

A truer rendition, more faithful to RL.

he is my pope, my jesus, my father, my lover, my lord , my savior, my president for life.

How long, until Trump declares himself a "living god?"

Why should Trump be responsible for only ruining the United States? He can multitask and ruin the Catholic Church too.

[quote]In the United States, the New York State Catholic Conference, which represents the bishops of the state in working with government, accused Trump of mockery. “There is nothing clever or funny about this image, Mr. President,” they wrote. “We just buried our beloved Pope Francis and the cardinals are about to enter a solemn conclave to elect a new successor of St. Peter. Do not mock us.”

[quote]Asked to respond to the criticism, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that, “President Trump flew to Italy to pay his respects for Pope Francis and attend his funeral, and he has been a staunch champion for Catholics and religious liberty.”

[quote]Jack Posobiec, a prominent far-right influencer and Trump ally who recently participated in a Catholic prayer event in March at Trump’s Florida resort, also defended the president. “I’m Catholic. We’ve all been making jokes about the upcoming Pope selection all week. It’s called a sense of humor,” he wrote on X.

[quote]The episode comes after Trump joked last week about his interest in the vacancy. “I’d like to be pope. That would be my number one choice,” the thrice married president, who is not Catholic, told reporters.

“Do not mock us”

Saying that to Trump after the many years we have known Trump , just seems funny. And rather pathetic.

[quote]A truer rendition, more faithful to RL.

Yep, he loves his hamberders.

The master of shitposting - credit where credit is due.

Do you remember President Obama turned his personal social media accounts off during his Presidency?

"Both [Trump and Harris] are against life, be it the one who kicks out migrants or the one who kills babies.... You must choose the lesser evil."

Pope Francis to US Catholics, 2024

Well, to be fair, R36, Obama DID drone murder a couple of US citizens and got a pass. The only pass he ever got, sure, but what a pass.

[quote]He can multitask and ruin the Catholic Church too.

Please. He can't even singletask.

His RC cult members make excuses for his tacky comment, sight.

[quote] I think part of the problem is that Dump and his antics have been normalized on the national political stage since June 2015.

Normalizing Trump is a Maggie Haberman schtick. Others too.

[quote] he is my pope, my jesus, my father, my lover, my lord , my savior, my president for life.

Put down the bottle of gin Miss Lindsey, cancel any gentleman callers scheduled for tonight, and get to bed early.

He enjoys riling people. He's owning the lib Catholics.

[quote] Miss Lindsey, cancel any gentleman callers scheduled for tonight, and get to bed early.

Thanks, but I think I'll keep the scheduled callers AND get to bed early.

He’s a dumb cunt. This will likely influence the conclave in the direction he doesn’t want though

If the conclave was a cocaine den. His delusion and disrespect is sickening.

These are the outrageous distractions, so we're talking about this, and not the heinous things they're doing behind the scenes.

Trump would be one of the less evil Popes.

R64.... BWAAAAH. Begone, MAGAt.

Has Catholic girl Karoline Leavitt made a statment?

How about "Super Catholics/We Have Kids" Sean Duffy and Rachel Cuntos Duffy?

I see he'd be a proponent of the Church getting back to its previous priorities of hoarding wealth and molesting kids, though I suppose altar girls could be considered a progressive reform.

[quote]Asked to respond to the criticism, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that, “President Trump flew to Italy to pay his respects for Pope Francis and attend his funeral, and he has been a staunch champion for Catholics and religious liberty.”

He saw close up the adoration and respect the world had for Pope Francis, so he's cosplaying that that's what the world thinks of him.

Take him now, Lord.

I'd like to see a real photo of Trump as John the Baptist... a severed head on a platter.

This is who America is.

Quite frankly, after thinking about it, it makes sense.

It's entirely apt that a buffoon troll, 4 times bankrupted, adjudicated sex abuser, twice impeached, federally indicted bigot is bringing down the USA.

The only thing America is exceptional about is how we've massively fucked ourselves. We know it. The world knows it.

Add dishonor to this whole sordid spectacle.

The likes of Donald Trump; a man so insecure and small that to salve his ego, he appeared before a group of children -the Boy Scouts of America- and told them filthy stories and denigrated former US Presidents.

What kind of US President does that?

The kind that would emit this Pope nonsense; the kind that Americans will go to the polls and vote for and that was AFTER everybody knew what a piece of shit he is.

I mean, if you've done any reading about, say, Genghis Kahn, even a cursory glimpse at his fearsome attributes reveals him to have been a brutal, smart, tactical and strategic wunderkind.

When you surrendered to Khan, there was some honor to it, because his leadership in service to his goals, as nefarious as those were, really was superior to everybody else's.

We, on the other hand, allowed a despicable coward who wouldn't know true bravery if it came up to him and shook his hand to bring the USA down.

Again, what dishonor and ignominy.

Plain and simple, Americans don't place value on being American and the proof of that is besmirching the White House right now.

There is no coming back from this.

This is so much more offensive than Kathy Griffin's stunt with the severed Trump head. Remember how that derailed her life?

60 percent of white women voted orange.

The metoo slags, perpetual victims of assault and harassment?

Voted for and offer unwavering, deep throated support of an adjudicated rapist.

Link, please, R74.

R75 R74 69% of whites women voted for Trump, A bit higher % than Hispanic men and Hispanic women did.

He is president once again for a reason —- they also got more young male voters, not most but more

Where do you guys get (or make up) these stats? 53% of white women voted for Trump. That’s a bad enough stat. You don’t need to exaggerate it.

R77 google in this case.

I stand corrected if your googled 53% is more accurate than my googled 69%. I hope you are correct and I am not.

r78 I literally just googled it. You can too.

You literally could literally post literally it literally too.

R79 I stated above , where I said I was likely wrong, that I did the fucking google already and I got——69% .

I am admitting I am likely wrong I certainly understand I could do a google. But thanks for the tip anyway.

"Plain and simple, Americans don't place value on being American and the proof of that is besmirching the White House right now."

Donald Trump is a convicted felon, a con artist/grifter, pathological liar, sexual pervert, a coward and a complete asshole, Bill Maher notwithstanding.

And I'm convinced that at least 80 million Americans are just like him because they share the same traits.

R81, thank you for admitting you were incorrect. So very few on DL do.

Voter demographics

2024 Presidential Election

Ethnicity / Trump / Harris

White 57 42

Black 13 86

Latino 46 51

Asian 40 55

Native American/American Indian 68 31

Other 52 44

White men 60 38

White women 53 46

Black men 21 77

Black women 7 92

Latino men 54 44

Latina women 39 58

Age by race

White 18–29 years old 49 49

White 30–44 years old 54 44

White 45–64 years old 61 37

White 65 and older 56 43

Black 18–29 years old 16 83

Black 30–44 years old 15 83

Black 45–64 years old 14 84

Black 65 and older 6 93

Latino 18–29 years old 45 51

Latino 30–44 years old 45 52

Latino 45–64 years old 48 51

Latino 65 and older 41 58

Others 47 49

BY RACE: Whites and Native Americans are the only races where the majority voted for Trump

BY GENDER: White men, White women, and Latin Men are the only gender groups where the majority voted for Trump

BY AGE: White men and White women are the only age groups where the majority voted for Trump

Let's be 100% clear: White People voted Trump into office.

When your party's racial policies are driven by a symbiotic combination of POC activists and uber-liberal whites, there's your result.

Both parties have abandoned the vast majority of citizens in favor of catering to the fringes.

This is a superior result

Trump and Christers deserve one another. Take him, bring him to the Vatican, stat.

The R88 2028 Resistance Plan to Take Back America

Call half the country Nazi s and then attack all Christians

This is why we need more progressives not less they understand winning and how to do it, If only Harris had listened more to these people instead of ignoring Bill Clinton’s warnings.

R81, show us the results of your google search — no, I don’t believe you at all, unless you show receipts.

Native Americans voted for this shit????

Goddamn.

R90 yes sir I will get right on it for you finding the results I already said were wrong. I thought—-how could it possibly be 69%. But I posted it like an idiot anyway. But it was in google so who am I to doubt.?

Now off to do my task . Hold your breath I will be back in no time,

Cath oh licks voted for the sanctity of life, how is that working out for you

[quote]60 percent of white women voted orange.

Ah, R74 -- but I bet 99.9% of the white females who post on DL [bold]did not.[/bold]

So save it for the women to which it applies. Thank you.

Sorry -- to [italic]whom[/italic].

May the fourth be with you.

And, of course, in its incompetence, the White House got it wrong.

of course

The amount of time this moron spends trolling the country is well ... all just part of the stupidest timeline I guess.

Ha!

I LOVE seeing Trump shit on Catholics! They put Trump in the White House and now he doesn't give a shit about the stupid Pope! Good times!

[quote]More likely her as a "broker" on behalf of Progressives.

More likely her as a "chaos agent" and "spoiler" on behalf of Fauxgressives.

"My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening."

-Alice Roosevelt

Yeah, r91, that jumped out at me too, but apparently it's a rather problematic claim.

[quote] the available data on Native American voters was often flawed, leading to dangerous conclusions about the Native American vote. This includes the National Exit Poll conducted by Edison Research, which suggested that 65% percent of Native Americans voted for Republican candidates based on a small and non-representative sample of Native American voters that did not include interviewing locations on any tribal lands across the country.

[quote] The national media’s heavy reliance on this questionable poll is misleading, as its depiction of support for Trump among Native Americans deviates from past patterns and has drawn significant criticism from tribal communities nationwide.

It amazes me that a Pope is still a thing in the 21st Century. Like the Oscars.

well, there are about 1.4 billion Catholics in the world r104, so yeah, still a thing.

Yet there was so much fake outrage over things the Obama's did.

[quote]Like the Oscars.

Competitive awards have been and will always be around, r104. The oldest and biggest will always be the most prestigious.

A Catholic friend (from high school) was all over Facebook today defending Trump in the face of this liberal slander. When her Trumpy friends started chiming in to say “no, Trump posted this,” she finally fell back to “okay. It’s his first mistake.”

He's going to keep getting crazier.

I doubt he’s really running his own accounts anymore. He’s an old demented man he’s not tech savvy enough to think hey I should be posting AI memes of myself as the Pope or a ‘roided out Sith Lord. This is probably being created and posted by one of Elon’s little nerd army like that Big Balls guy.

Does it make me a bad person and a bad catholic if I think the picture is funny? And the scowl puts it over the top. That scowl is perfect.

He is a crazy old man doing crazy shit. Sadly I identify. It’s a life path we all take if you live long enough. But if the crazy old coot starts telling stories about natives in the jungle eating his relatives he may be even nuttier than I am

Don’t make fun of the elderly —— A PSA from old people

What do you mean?

President Biden, who decisively won the Democratic presidential nomination, it wasn't even close, was hounded off the ticket for being too old.

Try harder, r111.

The most immoral and ungodly man to ever be US president and the Catholics and Evangelicals love him. They easily transferred their devotion from Jesus and his teachings of love and brotherhood, to Trump and his hate they neighbors mentality.

'well, there are about 1.4 billion Catholics in the world [R104], so yeah, still a thing.'

That's just as amazing to me. As idiotic as the Oscars. Can we leave medieval practices back to when burning witches was a thing.