There is an old adage that goes like this: “If someone says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.”
While the Roman Catholic Church has largely been quiet on geopolitical matters over the past few decades, it’s only been since President Donald Trump started to more aggressively enforce America’s standing border protection policies and immigration laws that the Vatican has clearly gotten political.
Canadians aren’t used to being hated by the United States. Stereotyped, sure. Ignored, absolutely. But hated?
We got a taste of it during Donald Trump’s first term. There were tariffs and lies and lots of weirdness then, too. But it seemed to be more between chummy adversaries, rather than outright enemies.
Well, something happened in the intervening four years. Between rounds of golf and trial dates, Mr. Trump seemed to nurture a white-hot animosity toward Canada, for reasons that escape any balanced mind. The MAGA hordes dutifully hopped on the bandwagon, all riled up over the latest scapegoat to be served up to them.
NEW YORK — U.S. President Donald Trump posted an apparently AI-generated image of Jesus embracing him on Wednesday, two days after he deleted a post that prompted criticism that the Republican president had compared himself to Jesus.
The image, reposted to Trump’s Truth Social account, shows Trump with his eyes closed, touching temple-to-temple with a similarly posed Jesus. Trump is standing behind a microphone, and behind him is an American flag. The original post had the caption: “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!”
Pope is woke.
President Trump has posted an AI-generated image seemingly depicting himself as Jesus Christ as he attacked the Pope for not supporting his war in Iran.
In the image, posted at the same time as the US president criticised the Pope for being “weak” on crime and “terrible” for foreign policy, Trump appears dressed in red and white robes as he cures a man with his healing hand. The American flag is shown over his shoulder. The image was shared on the president’s Truth Social site.
Update: Trump posts, then deletes AI image of himself as Christ-like figure, sparking blasphemy accusations
Trump is drawing heat even on Truth Social for this post but some added context was supplied about the origin of the picture in his defense, regardless many are not buying in.
PS. Let me know if you can access the Truth Social links above, I will add the origin/defense pic in the comments.
Donald Trump has reportedly said he will issue pardons en masse to his closest advisers at the end of his second presidency, promising them in casual conversations over the last year.
“I’ll pardon everyone who has come within 200 feet of the Oval [Office],” the president reportedly said in a recent meeting, garnering laughs from the room, according to a Wall Street Journal report citing an anonymous source.
The publication reported that another source had said Trump used the line in an earlier conversation, but with a smaller radius: he said he would pardon anyone who came within 10ft of the presidential office. Other sources claim Trump has floated hosting a news conference at the end of his term where he will announce mass pardons.
American President Donald J. Trump has threatened Iran that their “whole civilization will die tonight” if they don’t surrender the Strait of Hormuz immediately.
On his Truth Social account, he wrote, “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, who knows?”
Greatest President Ever!
Wow. @fancypants_s https://t.co/dRic1Rlo77
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) April 4, 2026
h/t Patti Jo
After the tragic experiences of the 20th century, aerial bombardment should have been banished forever!” declared Pope Leo XIV this week. “Instead, as we know, it still exists, and technological development, which is positive in itself, is being put at the service of war. This is not progress, it is regression!” The pontiff remonstrated: “Aircraft should always be vehicles of peace, never of war! No one should fear that threats of death and destruction will come from the sky.”
“Republicans love Donald Trump more than any president’s own party supporters loved them at this particular point,” CNN’s Harry Enten reported Thursday, citing results of his network’s latest poll.
No other president of the 21st Century has had this high a percentage of overall approval by supporters of his own party at this point in his presidency, Enten said while explaining why almost all of the primary candidates endorsed by Trump win…
Donald Trump is everywhere; that’s true for his country and for the world. At home, Trump is engaged in an astonishing number of high-visibility battles with institutions once controlled by the progressive Left: the lower courts, the prestige universities, corporate media old and new, cultural gatekeepers like the Smithsonian Institution and Washington’s Kennedy Center, the governors and mayors of Democratic-run jurisdictions, and more. Beyond these shores, we find him bunker-bombing Iran, orchestrating peace between Israel and Hamas, inaugurating a shooting war on Mexican and Venezuelan drug cartels, forcing NATO allies to jack up their defense spending, and ripping apart the globalized economy.
President Donald John Trump took over a nation from a feeble old man 13 months ago—a nation overrun by invaders, mocked on the world stage after surrendering Afghanistan and suffering an economic malaise not seen since Jimmy Carter roamed the Oval Office.
On Tuesday, Trump delivered a State of the Union address that was chockful of accomplishments in the Return of the Jedi President.
Disgusting that someone brought to this country from war-torn Somalia as charity can commit immigration fraud, get rich through stealing, show hate for this country, and shout at the President during a SOTU without consequences.
Denaturalize and deport!pic.twitter.com/nBqo0KIPBq
— Bad Hombre (@Badhombre) February 25, 2026
Democrat Rep. Robin Kelly laughs at and mocks American veterans who received the Medal of Honor during President Trump's SOTU speech.
KELLY: “It was like an award show, you get a medal! You get a medal! You get a medal!”
Absolutely despicable. pic.twitter.com/dIPgxZayJp
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 25, 2026
Starts at 9PM
Trump hit by sinister sabotage plot ahead of highly-anticipated State of the Union address
Donald Trump’s highly-anticipated State of the Union address is facing a sinister sabotage plot from top Democrats.
Dozens of lawmakers are set to boycott the speech at the Capitol with counter events, including parading Jeffrey Epstein victims on the National Mall.
David Kusnet: What Canadians should watch for in the state of the union
Since Donald Trump first ran for president in 2016, Americans have been told to “take him seriously, but not literally” — to focus less on his policy pronouncements and more on the feelings behind them. Canadians should do the same when they watch his state of the union address, as they assess what the speech could mean for the already tense U.S.-Canada relationship.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower made an important observation about finding answers to difficult questions. “Whenever I run into a problem I can’t solve,” the five-star general reportedly remarked, “I always make it bigger. I can never solve it by trying to make it smaller, but if I make it big enough, I can begin to see the outlines of a solution.”
The main criticism of Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s convention speech on Friday was that in 40 minutes or so, he didn’t mention the words “Donald Trump” — or how he would respond to the president’s intimidation.
On the contrary, though, I thought what he was saying was pretty clear: That he intends to follow in Prime Minister Mark Carney’s footsteps to the point where their positions are indistinguishable.
The Conservatives have likely concluded that the public see Carney as best equipped to handle the president, and their optimal strategy is to inoculate themselves, in the hope that by the time of the next election, Trump is like the measles, unpleasant but transitory.
OUTRAGED cries and calls for US President Donald Trump to apologise for saying that ‘Europeans . . . stayed . . . a little off the front lines’ during the war in Afghanistan are still rebounding off the walls of Westminster days later. His statement was undoubtedly wrong and appeared to be crassly ill-informed. By late yesterday afternoon he had backtracked.
Trump’s generalisation was difficult to parse and therefore easy to condemn, so the truths in what he may have been thinking and what prompted his ire went unreported. Not least his patent disgust with ‘Europe’ for thwarting his peace-keeping efforts in Ukraine and Gaza.
