MAGA Melts Down Over Trump’s ‘Disrespectful’ Pope Post

https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-melts-down-over-trumps-disrespectful-pope-post/

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  1. I think the saddest thing about this is, he’s completely serious.

  2. It would be quite funny if this was the straw that broke MAGA’s back.

  3. * Submitted article mirror: https://archive.is/LIDNO

    * “Pope Francis: The Vatican is an absolute monarchy” by english.katholisch.de (March 14, 2024): https://english.katholisch.de/artikel/51861-pope-francis-the-vatican-is-an-absolute-monarchy , https://archive.is/MIDje

    * “Diplomacy likely to trump geography in choice of new pope” by AFP (Agence France-Presse, April 27, 2025): https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250427-diplomacy-likely-to-trump-geography-in-choice-of-new-pope , https://archive.is/M3l87

    * “Catholic Bishops Flame Trump for Mocking Pope in Crazy Post” ““Do not mock us,” New York’s Catholic bishops warned the president.” by Liam Archacki (published on May 3, 2025 and updated on May 4, 2025): https://www.thedailybeast.com/catholic-bishops-flame-trump-for-mocking-pope-in-crazy-post/ , https://archive.is/9uLWy

     

    – “No longer parallel empires: The Vatican and the United States under Trump” “Signs of the times. From Cold War espionage to today’s intelligence dramas, shifting loyalties mirror America’s transformation. As Trump’s populism reorders power, the Vatican faces a new ideological battle with the United States, reshaping Catholicism’s global role.” by Massimo Faggioli (published on February 13, 2025 and updated on February 27, 2025): https://international.la-croix.com/opinions/no-longer-parallel-empires-the-vatican-and-the-united-states-under-trump , https://archive.is/PVmXd

    – https://old.reddit.com/r/AnythingGoesNews/comments/1g4u7a5/popes_use_of_fraught_verse_on_gaza_anniversary/ls64n20/ (“Pope’s use of fraught verse on Gaza anniversary raises troubling questions”)

    – https://old.reddit.com/r/economy/comments/1iw6jr6/a_dying_empires_last_kicks_require_renegotiating/mebfpl3/ (“A Dying Empire’s Last Kicks Require Renegotiating Adventist Eschatology”)

     

    * “Trump: ‘I’d like to be pope’” “He was joking (we think) — but said the conclave should take a look at a cardinal from New York.” by Joe Stanley-Smith (April 29, 2025): https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-us-president-pope-francis-catholic-church/ , https://archive.is/3VBwb

     

    * https://old.reddit.com/r/economy/comments/gza212/dominionists_say_crises_and_trumps_reelection/ftf1atm/ (“Dominionists Say Crises​ and Trump’s Reelection​ Will Set Stage for Church to Take Greater Authority — Dominionists “argue that the ‘shaking’ that the United States has experienced…[is] setting the stage for conservative Christians to take new levels of power and authority in government,business””)

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    * “The Histomap. Four Thousand Years Of World History. Relative Power Of Contemporary States, Nations And Empires.” by John B. Sparks: http://archive.ph/1wEk8/332f1c70b1ffd9854847dbfa7ad77b4915cbd50a.jpg via http://archive.ph/1wEk8 ; https://web.archive.org/web/20130813230833if_/alanbernstein.net/images/large/histomap.jpg via https://web.archive.org/web/20130813230833/alanbernstein.net/images/large/histomap.jpg

     

  4. Cruelly rounding up people and sending them to foreign death camps? Totally fine.

    Cosplaying as Pope? An unforgivable sin!

  5. Trump doesn’t care about the constitution. Even if this is a joke, it is in terribly poor taste for a president. He has no class or ethics.

  6. I mean he is already celibate, Melania won’t touch him with a flamethrower

  7. Trump’s been listening to Vance and Margie Greene too much. Anything that makes Trump look bad is a good thing.

  8. Sorry, no “MAGA” did not “melt down” over this. A few people tweeted their mild concern. That’s it. It’s been demonstrated over and over — there is no bottom. He is, ironically given his situation, infallible in their eyes.

    > Shows poor judgement,” tweeted X user Juan Santana. “Would you do a similar joke with other religions’ leaders?

    You’re joking right? He would absolutely insult any one and any religion at any moment. There’s no red line.

  9. The ‘melts down’ line has had its time. Come up with something fresh!

  10. there is a german folk/fairytale that is originally written in a northern german dialect “vom fischer und seiner frau” (about the fisherman and his wife) where a fisherman catches a big flounder (who’s an enchanted prince or something) who pleads for being left alive. the fisherman is a gentle person and let’s the flounder go.

    his wife on the other hand is a greedy bastard, and when he tells her about the flounder she scolds him for not asking anything in return. she sends him back to ask the fish for a free wish, since they’re living in a “pisspot” (literally pisspot (chamber pot)). so the husband reluctantly goes back, calls the flounder and is granted a better house.

    but his wife is never satisfied. she keeps asking for more and more. she becomes king, then emperor, then demands to become pope. the flounder fulfills the wishes but is palpably getting angrier, so is the sea.

    finally the wife demands to become god. that’s where the flounder draws the line. and he tells the fisherman to go home to his wife who is already back in the pisspot.

    i know ya’ll didn’t really need to know this fairytale, but that AI picture immediately reminded me of this and i can’t wait for having trump back in his pisspot where he belongs.

  11. You know those little antiabortion signs you see in all the Catholic’s yards? I want to get some that say Donald Trump for Pope. Put them out, and wait for the reactions on Nextdoor.com.

  12. This is a defining moment. He has gotten away with so much and his “god loving” supporters, who deep down know that they made a terrible mistake, finally get a way out. He insulted the Catholic Church. Unforgivable. It gives plenty of people a reason to break away and leave the cult without losing face.

    And yes, I know, there is a lot of wishful thinking in my comment

  13. No they didn’t.

    Also no need to put disrespectful in quotes.

  14. > “It’s a joke. It is not even an offensive joke, and I’m Catholic.”

    Sweetie, you are not a catholic or even a christian if you support the Antichrist and let him pose as your supreme religious authority.

  15. The Daily Beast again reporting bullshit. 100% would vote for him again. He’s trying to distract people from his efforts to expand his powers and destroy institutions that hold him responsible.

  16. You had to figure thay something would break through their thick skulls eventually.

    So, im good with whatever gets in there.

  18. The day before i said something to a fmily member along the lines of jd vance may have done something to the pope, and he said i was being disrespectful . Then drumpf posted a hold my beer jd. So I asked “was that being disrespectful.?” “Idk”

  19. ~2 Thessalonians 2:4 – “Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.”

  20. The post from Trump is quite literally blasphemous antichrist stuff, but his base eats it up. Not only that, but because it was tweeted from the official White House account, the post will be documented in the library of Congress in perpetuity. We will use our tax payer dollars to keep that fucking AI image in our records. 

    MAGA is a fascist cult without morals or reasoning skills. The only difference between Trump and James Jones is that Trump would sell you the koolaid instead of gifting it.

  22. Four years of maga melts down headlines

    Hope the editors find other ways to write the same headline. Same goes for x SLAMS y 😂

  23. These “Maga melts down” headlines are so clickbait and disingenuous

  24. Literally this is the second MAGA melts down headline I’ve seen in the span of 7 days.

    I hate trump but something tells me maga hasn’t actually melted down and instead this article is just ragebait for our side.

  26. Next week he’ll just claim Joe Biden hacked his account and posted the image and they will believe him.

  27. Bets on how long it takes them to get over it and come up with a reason this is totally okay?

    My dollar says they’ll have this normalized by Friday.

  28. For a long time to come, political, psychological, sociological scholars will write about, and try to decipher exactly how the fuque so many people could have ever been duped by this ridiculous clown.

  29. Of all the hateful stuff and anti-christian shit he‘s done THAT is where they draw the line???

  31. I hate titles like “maga melts down”. Magas don’t give a shit what trump does, they’ll eat out of his hands no matter what.

  33. Once again petitioning to stop using the phrase “melts down.” It is near universally hyperbolic and, in my eyes, immediately delegitimizes whatever is being discussed.

  35. The President of the United States shitposting on social media an image of him dressed as the fucking Pope just says after the actual Popes funeral is simply something I cannot wrap my brain around.

  36. What are you talking about. They are completely fine with this. It’s a joke to them. This guy could literally kill people on the street with a shotgun and they would be ok with it. 

  37. I call BS. They’ll still suck his hog no matter what he says.

  38. Quit clickbaiting. MAGA isn’t melting down over anything. Once the koolaid is imbibed the magical thinking backwards rationalizations go to work. If they can dismiss with a wave of the hand the narcissism, misogyny, bigoted racist hate, serial failures, fraud, corruption, lies, serial adultery, pedophilia, cruelty, hypocrisy, ignorance and complete lack of any empathy for mankind do you think they’ll give a shit about this?

  39. MAGA isn’t melting down. Conservatives are loving this and think it’s hilarious. I went to their sub and they’re having a field day with it. They love it and anyone who doesn’t like it is called a lib.

  40. He won’t lose any supporters. At this point the political parties out way religion. And they don’t even know why.

  41. I’m so sick of these fucking people!! They’ve turned us into the laughing stock of the entire world.

  43. “MAGA melts down”…who comes up with these hype headlines?

  44. If you’re going to post an article from a site that employs paywalls, please either screencap the whole article and post it or post a non-paywall link to the article.

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