How long will we continue to ignore the oversized pachyderm sitting on the sofa? We are no longer talking about random peccadilloes, this man has literally pissed off the pope. He has insulted, demeaned, and dismissed all of our former friends, and now he wonders why they won’t come help him in his hour of need. It’s impossible to continue saying, “He’s only joking.” He is like the elderly relative sitting at the end of the dining room table eating his soup with a fork. You can’t just say that he isn’t hungry.
His recent posting of a picture of himself as Jesus healing a sick man wasn’t a joke. He was serious. In the glaring light of day the criticism was swift. A Christian activist said of the post, "There's no context where this is acceptable." Trump’s response was totally ludicrous, "It's supposed to be as a doctor making people better," he said. "And I do make people better. I make people a lot better."
This flies in the face of reality. He posted this picture right after criticizing the pope as “weak on crime” and “terrible for foreign policy.” He was responding to the pope’s condemnation of his war in Iran where Pope Leo said that it has led to “absurd and inhuman violence.” Now Trump wants you to think this post was depicting him as a doctor. He said this with a straight face.
This is no longer a minor problem. The picture itself is troubling enough, but that he would think people would believe he wanted to look like a doctor, is the height of demented thinking. To help hide and explain away the whole thing, the White House announced that the Truthsocial post under the president’s name was made “erroneously” by some unnamed staffer. That may be true, but calling himself just a “staffer” in the White House is more humility than I have ever heard from our president.
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