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Trump Takes on the Vatican


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TRUMP CALLED THE POPE WEAK ON CRIME. POSTED HIMSELF AS JESUS CHRIST. DELETED IT BY MORNING. AND HIS SPIRITUAL ADVISER ASKED CHRISTIANS TO VENMO HER TEN PERCENT OF THEIR INCOME. ALL IN THE SAME WEEKEND.

The media wants you to think this is a story about a president attacking a peaceful holy man for no reason. It is not. Pope Leo XIV -- the first American-born pope in history, from Chicago, Illinois -- has spent months wading deeper into American domestic politics, culminating in urging American citizens to call their Congress members and oppose their own president's foreign policy. A foreign head of state. Lobbying American voters. Against their own government. Trump called it what it is. Today we back him up.

Plus -- Sabrina Carpenter headlined Coachella, got called Islamophobic for not recognizing a sound she'd never heard in her life, and the internet convicted her before she finished her piano set. The history behind that sound is more interesting than anything the mob has to say about it.

🎤 SABRINA CARPENTER VS. THE ZAGHROUTA -- what the sound actually is, why Lawrence of Arabia matters, and why the audience member at Coachella used a thousand-year-old tradition as a gotcha instead of a gift

⛪ THE VATICAN IS A FOREIGN POWER -- not a metaphor, not a figure of speech. Full diplomatic corps, UN seat, foreign policy agenda. And its head of state just lobbied American citizens against their own president

🏛️ THE AMERICAN CATHOLIC TRADITION -- Charles Carroll signed the Declaration. Casimir Pulaski bled at Savannah. Stephen Moylan rode with Washington. Every one of them chose America over Rome. We make the case Leo should too

⚔️ THE IRAN WAR AND THE JUST WAR QUESTION -- forty-seven years of Iranian terrorism, a nuclear weapon weeks away, and a pope who is contradicting Augustine and Aquinas inside his own church's intellectual tradition

🤳 THE JESUS IMAGE -- Trump posted it on Orthodox Easter, his own base called it blasphemy, and it was deleted by Monday morning with zero explanation. We defend the troll and explain why it worked

💸 PAULA WHITE'S VENMO TITHE -- the White House Spiritual Adviser asked for the first tenth of your gross income while the pope was being praised globally for moral clarity. CashApp. Venmo. PayPal. God takes whatever's in your digital wallet

🎙️ CAMELLIA PETERSEN (@RareCamellia) joins us to break down the politics, the optics, and the Paula White pattern the Trump administration should have caught long before giving her an official title

🎙️ MAGGIE ANDERS (@maggiemodo) joins us for the faith breakdown -- the Jesus image, the Just War tradition, the prosperity gospel machine, and who should actually be advising this president on God and country

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