War of Epic Blasphemers, part two (Donald John Trump)

Readers of this website with long enough memories will recall that I have criticizing Donald John Trump since he announced his first campaign for the Republican Party presidential nomination on June 16, 2015, in the lobby of the Trump Tower in the Borough of Manhattan, City of New York, New York.

I have offered this criticism not because I dislike President Trump nor because I like doing so.

No, my criticism of President Donald John Trump has had everything to do with his being a narcissist who believes in his own omniscience, invincibility, and infallibility.

Despite his justified criticism of the man who was President of the United States of America when Trump announced his campaign of the 2016 Republican Party presidential nomination nearly eleven years ago, Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro, Donald John Trump is just as proud, arrogant, thin-skinned, and hubristic as the forty-fourth president, whose efforts to use the Deep  aState to investigate the Taxed Enough Already (TEA Party) movement in 2010 and to seek to prevent Trump’s election in 2016 and then to undermine his first term in a variety of nefarious ways. Donald John Trump chafes at criticism and is suffers from the unrestrained compulsion to insult, demean, and disparage anyone who dares to offer a mild work of disagreement with him or his policies.

Consider the fact that it was on September 9, 2015, that the then candidate Trump agreed to speak at “End the Iran Deal” rally near the United States Capitol at the request of rival for the 2016 Republican Party president nomination, United States Senator Raphael Edward “Ted” Cruz (Republican, Texas). The two were very chummy at the time, something that readers can see for themselves from the following contemporary report in the Texas Tribune:

WASHINGTON — In back-to-back speeches in front of the nation’s Capitol, GOP presidential hopefuls U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and real estate developer Donald Trump showcased their different campaigning styles on Wednesday as they rallied supporters against President Obama’s Iran deal. 

In legalistic and graphic detail, Cruz spoke twice as long as Trump about a deal that is, at this point, all but certain to hold up to Congressional challenges. Trump meanwhile offered that his force of personality and negotiating skills would translate to a “winning” foreign policy.

The deal involves Iran and Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States. It aims to allow inspectors into Iran and limits the country’s uranium enrichment in exchange for lifting economic sanctions. Republicans are universally opposed, but in the last 24 hours have publicly disagreed on how to tactically respond to Obama, who has sufficient Democratic Congressional support to uphold the agreement. 

“When we talk about terrorism, it’s worth remembering that if this deal goes through, we know to an absolute certainty people will die,” Cruz told the crowd, a respectable showing for a Wednesday afternoon although it did not overwhelm the Capitol’s west lawn. “Americans will die. Israelis will die. Europeans will die.” 

Argued that Senate Democrats who back the president on the deal will have blood on their hands, Cruz sounded dire warnings. “I want to ask every Senate Democrat, ‘How will you look in the eyes of the mothers or father or sons or daughters of those who are murdered by jihadists, those Americans who were blown up, those Americans who were shot, those Americans who were killed, those Israelis who were murdered?” he asked. “And let me clear, if you vote to send billions of dollars to the jihadists who have pledged to murder Americans, then you bear direct responsibility for the murders carried out with the dollars you have given them.'”

“You cannot wash your hands of that blood,” he added. 

Referring to Obama as a “lawless president,” Cruz reamed House and Senate GOP leadership for not employing various legislative tactics to stop the deal. 

Trump, on the other hand, argued that his business negotiating skills would translate into an improved American foreign policy. 

“We are led by very, very stupid people,” Trump said. “We lose militarily. We can’t beat ISIS. Give me a break. We can’t beat anybody. Our vets are being treated horribly.

“We will have so much winning if I get elected that you may get bored with winning. Believe me. I agree. You’ll never get bored with winning.”

Mostly Jewish and Tea Party activists, the crowd brandished signs including loaded terminology, accusing both Republican and Democratic lawmakers of being traitors. 

There is much intrigue about the relationship between the two presidential candidates, who referred to each other by first name at points in the steamy, Washington afternoon.

Unlike his fellow Texan and fierce Trump critic former Gov. Rick Perry, Cruz’s aim is to court Trump’s large following. 

“I think Donald Trump has been tremendously beneficial to our campaign,” Cruz told reporters after the speech. “Donald has an incredible ability to attract attention. Twenty-four million Americans watched that first debate.” 

“Now coming out of that debate, most of the other Republican candidates, their numbers either stagnated or went down,” he added. “Our national support doubled and I’m very grateful to Donald for millions of extra people, millions of eyeballs, watching that debate and having the opportunity to hear my positive, optimistic, hopeful conservative message.” (GOP Odd Couple Cruz, Trump Spit Fire Over Iran Deal.)

One will note that the subject of the event at which then candidate Trump and Senator Cruz spoke was the Iran nuclear deal that had been negotiated mostly by the pro-abortion dimbowitz John F. Kerry, who was then the United States Secretary of State, on behalf of President Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro and Vice President Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., and that the audience on September 9, 2015, rally was mostly Jewish, which is itself interesting as both Trump and Cruz are Judaizers of the first, second, and third orders.

However, as Raphael Edward Cruz’s campaign began to gather steam—and especially after Cruz won the Iowa Caucuses on February 1, 2016, Donald John Trump began to attack Cruz bitterly, even going so far as to state that Cruz’s wife, Heidi Cruz, was “ugly.” Trump, it was reported at the time, was asked by an aide why he was going after Cruz so bitterly, and the real estate developer/reality television show host and all around celebrity said, “He’s getting too close.

The bitterness became such that “Ted” Cruz unloaded on his former frenemy on Monday, May 2, 2016, the day before the Indiana primaries in 2016, when it became clear that Trump was going “cruising,” if you will pardon the expression, his way to the Republican Party presidential nomination:

INDIANAPOLIS — Senator Ted Cruz, who for months last year embraced Donald J. Trump as a force for good in the Republican presidential race, unburdened himself as never before on Tuesday in a searing, personal barrage hours before the Indiana primary.

“I’m going to do something I haven’t done for the entire campaign,” he told reporters in Evansville, Ind. “I’m going to tell you what I really think of Donald Trump.”

Mr. Trump is a “pathological liar,” he said — an “utterly amoral” man and a “narcissist at a level I don’t think this country has ever seen.”

He attacked Mr. Trump’s history of adultery, his penchant for conspiracy theories and his past disparaging Twitter posts about Heidi Cruz, Mr. Cruz’s wife.

“Apparently she’s not pretty enough for Donald Trump,” Mr. Cruz said, with Mrs. Cruz smiling beside him. “I may be biased, but I think if he’s making that allegation he’s also legally blind.”

In a statement, Mr. Trump called Mr. Cruz “a desperate candidate trying to save his failing campaign” and growing “more and more unhinged” amid a string of primary losses.

Though Mr. Cruz has long attacked Mr. Trump as a disingenuous conservative and unsteady leader — particularly as he has strained to catch Mr. Trump in the Indiana polls and rescue a flagging presidential bid — his performance on Tuesday was different.

Hours earlier, Mr. Trump had said in a Fox News interview that Mr. Cruz’s father Rafael had associated with Lee Harvey Oswald not long before the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He cited a story from the National Enquirer, which the Cruz campaign has called error-filled.

“I guess I should go ahead and admit, yes, my dad killed J.F.K.,” Mr. Cruz said dryly. “He is secretly Elvis and Jimmy Hoffa is buried in his backyard.”

Repeatedly, he pleaded with voters in Indiana to think carefully about their choices, at times calling to mind the final campaign days of Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, who railed against Mr. Trump with uncommon purpose as his prospects waned.

He noted that the office of the president “affects our culture,” setting an example for children.

“Listen, Donald Trump is a serial philanderer and he boasts about it,” Mr. Cruz said, directly raising Mr. Trump’s marital history for the first time. “I want everyone to think about your teenage kids. The president of the United States talks about how great it is to commit adultery. How proud he is. Describes his battles with venereal disease as his own personal Vietnam.”

He went on to accuse the news media of enabling Mr. Trump, singling out Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes of Fox News for transforming the network into “the Donald Trump network, 24/7.”

The most surreal turn came perhaps near the end, when Mr. Cruz, a movie buff, reached for an analogy to cinema.

“If anyone has seen the movie ‘Back to the Future 2,’” he began, “the screenwriter says that he based the character Biff Tannen on Donald Trump, a caricature of a braggadocious arrogant buffoon.”

“We are looking, potentially,” he added sternly, “at the Biff Tannen presidency.”

Despite public vows to remain in the race regardless of Tuesday’s outcome, Mr. Cruz again implored Indiana voters to help.

“If Indiana does not act,” he said, “this country could well plunge into the abyss.”

As he neared the end of his remarks, in his final scheduled appearance before the vote, Mr. Cruz was asked if he could still support Mr. Trump as the Republican nominee.

For weeks, he has wavered, after initially pledging to support any eventual nominee. At last, it seemed possible that he would make his opposition unequivocal.

He declined to answer. (Ted Cruz Unburdens Himself: 'What I Really Think of Donald Trump' - First Draft. Political News, Now.)

Now, it should be noted that the “Christian Zionist,” Cruz, and Trump have become allies after Trump defeated Madame Defarge, aka Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton, on Tuesday, November 8, 2016, and despite the fact that Cruz was booed off the stage at the Republican National Convention on July 20, 2016, after refusing to endorse Trump at that time, although he did issue a tepid endorsement on September 23, 2016, by saying that Trump was the only thing that stood in the way of a President Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton.

The point is this is to demonstrate once again that Donald John Trump, who has been faithless to each of his three “wives,” is loyal only to himself and is absolutely vicious when anyone, especially those have more universal respect and appeal than he does, dares to criticize him indirectly. Trump does not consider anyone “off limits” for his now trademark “treatment,” including, of course. Robert Francis Prevost, who most people in the world believe to be the Vicar of Christ on earth:

The following report is from the New York Post, and will interject at various points, meaning probably every paragraph:

President Trump slammed Pope Leo XIV for being “weak on crime” and “terrible for foreign policy” in a lengthy Truth Social post following the American pontiff’s veiled rebukes of the Iran war. 

Interjection Number One:

As I had done in American Caesarism a week ago today, that is, on Easter Thursday, April 9, 2016, I am going to make some necessary distinctions before going any further.

First, although many of the “founding fathers were Deisitic rationalists who hated the Catholic Faith and mocked Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in their private letters to each other and that have been at least two presidents, Millard Fillmore (who was the presidential nominee of the Know-Nothing Party in 1856 four years after he left the presidency, which he had assumed upon the death of President Zachary Taylor on July 9, 1950) and Thomas Woodrow Wilson, had contempt for both Catholics and Catholicism.

No president, however, had ever openly attacked a man considered to be the Vicar of Our Lord Jesus Christ on earth as publicly and open as did President Donald John Trump on Low Sunday, April 12, 2026, because of what had been up to that point Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV’s not so thinly veiled opposition to the preemptive war that Trump, Secretary of War Peter Hegseth, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched against Iran on Saturday, February 28, 2026.

Although part one of this commentary focused on the false “pontiff’s” own many hypocrisies and how his meeting with the pro-abortion, pro-sodomite David Axelrod on Thursday, April 9, 2026, was probably the final straw for Trump, who is always on the prowl looking for people to attack after they had criticized him, and served as the launching pad for his now infamous attack on Prevost/Leo:

“Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy,” Trump wrote Sunday night, moments before sharing an AI-generated image of himself as a Jesus-like figure.

Interjection Number One:

While I will admit very readily that Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV, following the example of his morally and theologically potty-mouthed pathologically lying predecessor, the late Jorge Mario Bergoglio, has never said a single word about the violent crimes that illegal immigrants have committed here in the United States of America while supporting the unrestricted but nevertheless nonexistent “right” of foreign nationals to transgress other nations’ just laws regulating immigration as part of their duties to protect national sovereignty and public health and safety, a true and legitimate Successor of Saint Peter speaks about street crimes, for example, rarely and speaks about matters of foreign policy except in the context of Catholic Faith and morals in the pursuit of a just peace, the peace of the Divine Redeemer, Christ the King.

It is not up to an American president to dictate to a man he thinks is the Vicar of Christ on earth what to say or how to say it.

While it is true, as has been mentioned in the past on this website, that there were rulers during the Middle Ages who chafed under the collar at the temporal powers of the papacy because they resented being “confined” to the boundaries of the Divine Positive Law and the Natural Law, Trump’s behavior calls to mind the efforts on the part of the Roman emperors, pagan kings and princes, Henry VIII, Napoleon Bonaparte, the revolutionaries of the Italian Rigioramento, Otto von Bismarck, the czars of Russian Orthodoxy and the commissars of Soviet Bolshevism, Mao Zedong, Xi Jinping, Daniel Ortega, Fidel Castro and so many others to control a pope and the Catholic Church.

Donald John Trump expects what he thinks is the Catholic Church to be subservient to the exigencies of American domestic and foreign policy and in this regard, you see, he is really little different than the dictators mentioned above, especially the murderous Joseph Stalin, who made the Russian Orthodox Church an effective tool of Soviet domestic and foreign policy, especially as regards the persecution of the Catholic Church that Pope Pius XII noted very forcefully in Russia, Ukraine, and what would become the Soviet bloc in Eastern Europe after World War II:

55. But now, with the greatest fatherly anguish of heart, we see a new and terrible storm threatening this Church. The information which reaches us is scanty, but is sufficient to cause solicitude and fill us with anxiety. It is the anniversary of the day three hundred and fifty years ago, when this ancient community of Christians was happily united to the supreme pastor, the successor of St. Peter; but this same day has become for us “a day of tribulation and distress, a day of calamity and misery, a day of darkness and obscurity, a day of clouds and whirlwinds.”[17]

56. For we have learnt with great grief that, in those territories which have recently been made over to the sway of Russia, our dear brethren and sons of the Ruthenian people are in dire straits in consequence of their fidelity to the Apostolic See; every means are being employed to take them away from the bosom of their mother, the Church, and to induce them, against their will and against their known religious duty, to enter the communion of the dissidents. Thus it is reported that the clergy of the Ruthenian rite have complained in a letter to the civil government that in the Western Ukraine, as it is called today, their Church has been placed in an extremely difficult position; all its bishops and many of its priests have been arrested; and at the same time it has been prohibited that anyone should take up the government of the same Ruthenian Church.

57. We are well aware that this harsh and severe treatment is speciously attributed to political reasons. But this is no new procedure used today for the first time; very often in the course of the centuries the enemies of the Church have hesitated to make public profession of their opposition to the Catholic faith and to attack it openly; they brought cunning and subtle allegations that Catholics were plotting against the State. In the very same way the Jews accused the Divine Redeemer himself before the Roman governor, saying “We have discovered that this man is subverting the loyalty of our people, forbids the payment of tribute to Caesar.”[18] But faces and events themselves plainly manifest, and show in its true light, what was and is the real cause of this savagery. For, as is well known, the patriarch Alexis, recently elected by the dissident bishops of Russia, openly exalts and preaches defection from the Catholic Church in a letter lately addressed to the Ruthenian Church, a letter which contributed not a little to the initiation of this persecution. (Pope Pius XII, Orientales Omnes Ecclesias, December 23, 1953.)

A Brief Interjection:

Please note that, entirely unlike the conciliar “popes,” Pope Pius XII courageously denounced the Russian Orthodox patriarch at the time, Alexis, for his efforts to encourage Ruthenian Rite Catholics to apostatize to the heretical and schismatic Russian Orthodox sect as the price of being “saved” from Joseph Stalin’s own “denazification” efforts. It is important to know true history as Our Lady, who loves Russia and its people, did not appear in the Cova da Iria in Fatima to reaffirm Russia in its errors but to ask us all to pray her Most Holy Rosary for the conversion of Russia and its proper collegial consecration to her Immaculate Heart by a pope together with all of the world’s bishops. Error is never the foundation of anything but discord and violence.

Pope Pius XII went on to note in  Orientales Omnes Ecclesias:

58. These griefs cut us the more deeply because while the cruel war was yet raging almost all the nations of the world, through a gathering of their representatives, solemnly proclaimed among other things that no persecution of religion must ever be undertaken. This had given us hope that peace and true liberty would be granted everywhere to the Catholic Church, the more so since the Church has always taught, and teaches, that obedience to the ordinances of the lawfully established civil power, within the sphere and bounds of its authority, is a duty of conscience. But, unfortunately, the events we have mentioned have grievously and bitterly weakened, have almost destroyed, our hope and confidence so far as the lands of the Ruthenians are concerned.

59. Amid these heavy calamities, since human help is seen to be of no avail, nothing remains, venerable brethren, but earnestly to implore the most merciful God, who “will do justice to the needy and will avenge the poor,”[19] that of his loving kindness he would himself calm this terrible storm and at length bring it to an end. We again and again exhort you and the flock committed to you to join with us by humble prayer and works of penance in imploring him by whose heavenly light the minds of men are illumined, by whose heavenly command their wills are directed, to spare his people and not to give up his heritage to reproach,[20] and speedily to free the Church of the Ruthenians from this hurtful crisis.

60. In this sad and anxious state of affairs our fatherly heart goes out especially to those who are so harshly and bitterly oppressed by it, and first of all to you, venerable brothers, the bishops of the Ruthenian people. Great as are the trials which afflict you, you are more burdened with anxiety for the safety of your flocks than for the injuries and sufferings inflicted upon yourselves, in accordance with the words: “the good shepherd lays down his life for his sheep.”[21] The present is dark and the future uncertain and full of cares, but do not lose heart. Rather so display yourselves, presenting “such a spectacle . . . to the whole creation, men and angels alike,”[22] that all the faithful of Christ may see in your endurance and courage a shining example. Courageously, and steadfastly enduring this attack of your enemies, and afire with a divine love for the Church, you become “the good odor of Christ unto God, in them that are saved and in them that perish.”[23] In bonds as you are, and separated from your sons, it is not in your power to give them instruction in our holy religion, but your very bonds more fully and profoundly proclaim and preach Christ.

61. As a father we next address you, our beloved sons who have received the seal of the priesthood, and must therefore follow more closely in the footsteps of Christ, “who suffered for us,”[24] and still more than others must bear the brunt of battle. We are deeply moved by your distress, but rejoice that we can say to the greater number of you, borrowing the words of the Divine Redeemer: “I know of all thy doings, thy faith, thy love, thy generosity, thy endurance, how in these last days thou art more active than at first.”[25] We exhort you to continue steadfastly and inflexibly to stand firm in your faith in these lamentable times; continue to uphold the weak and support the wavering. So far as there is need, warn the faithful of Christ entrusted to you that it is absolutely unlawful, even merely exteriorly or verbally, to deny or abandon Christ and His Church; expose the cunning wiles of those who promise men earthly advantages and greater happiness in this life, but destroy their souls. Show yourselves “as the ministers of God, in much patience, in tribulation, in necessities, in distresses . . . in chastity, in knowledge, in long-suffering, in sweetness, in the Holy Ghost, in charity unfeigned, in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of justice on the right hand and on the left.” [26] (Pope Pius XII, Orientales Omnes Ecclesias, December 23, 1953.)

Catholics have suffering at the hands of Russian heretics and their superiors in whatever form of government has prevailed in Russia over the past millennium.

Pope Pius XII did not hesitate to call Russian Orthodoxy a tool of the Communist state, and Pope Saint Pius X read the riot act to the Russian Ambassador to the Holy See in 1914 about treatment of Catholics in Imperial Russia:

"There was no shade of weakness in him", Cardinal Merry del Val wrote, "He had the inflexible firmness of a ruler convinced of the responsibilities his high office imposed on him, and he was determined to fulfill them, cost what it might."

The Russian ambassador to the Vatican once discovered the firmness of the Pope. Shortly before his death [in 1914], Pius X granted this ambassador an audience. But he received him sternly, without a trace of a smile on his face. Full of majesty, he turned to his visitor. "I cannot accept good wishes from the representative of a power that fails to keep the promises it makes. Until now Russia has not kept a single one of the promises she made to the Catholics of Russia."

The ambassador had not expected such a greeting, and he was frightened. "Holy Father," he stammered, "this is not true!"

The Holy Father rose from his throne and, with a gesture that betrayed deep indignation, cried, "I will repeat what I have said: not a single promise has been kept! And you dare to say that I lie, Mr. Ambassador! I must ask you to leave this room!"

As pale as death, the ambassador stumbled out the door.

So with firmness and mercy, Pope Saint Pius X carried on his work--a worthy successor to Peter, of him it was said, "Upon this rock I will build my church." (Father Walter Diethelm, Saint Pius X: The Farm Boy Who Became Pope, published originally by Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, Inc., in 1956, republished by Ignatius Press in 1994.)

Russia is the seat of the errors of Modernity that gave birth to the anti-Incarnational lies of Judeo-Masonry, Protestantism and, in due course, Communism.

So much for Trump and Vice President James David Vance’s contentions that popes must stay out of “politics.” Neither the hedonist supporter of the genocide of the preborn by means chemical abortifacients, who is also an enabler of the Zionist genocide of innocent Palestinians and Lebanese, nor the Catholic convert understand anything about the genuine Social Teaching of the Catholic concerning the Social Reign of Christ the King nor the history of how our true popes have denounced civil potentates when they deemed it necessary to do so (see, for example, Jorge Mario Bergoglio Would Have Urged Catholics to "Dialogue" with Diocletian).

Another important point to make is that both Robert Francis Prevost’s own remarks—and the unequivocal support and credibility he lends to pro-abort, pro-sodomite politicians throughout the world while being obsequious to Xi Jinping and his continued persecuted of Catholics in Communist China—and Trump’s unfiltered reaction to them feed into the caricature of the papacy and the Catholic Church that is held and advanced by many Protestants, who always are ready to stand by their secular savior and especially when he is being attacked by the one they believe to be the leader of the “whore of Babylon,” the Catholic Church. There can be no doubt that Trump has been egged on in this regard by the virulently anti-Catholic Protestant Secretary of War, Peter Hegseth.

Here are the next paragraph from the April 13, 2026, edition of the New York Post:

“I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon. I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s terrible that America attacked Venezuela, a Country that was sending massive amounts of Drugs into the United States and, even worse, emptying their prisons, including murderers, drug dealers, and killers, into our Country,” he continued.

Interjection Number Two:

As noted earlier in this commentary, it is not up to a non-denominational, thrice marriage Protestant and serial adulterer to “want” a “pope” to his own liking or who will agree with everything he says and does.

Trump’s narcissism is such that he actually believes the abject hysteria that Iran was “within weeks” of obtaining a nuclear weapon that was and remains as delusional as George Walker Bush’s false and loudly repeated contention the national security of the United States of America and the whole world was threatened by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s “weapons of mass destruction.”

Given the fact that he is a pacificist who rejects the Just War Theory in favor of conciliarism’s embrace of the “positive side man,” Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV, I am sure, is not in favor any country, including the United States of America, possessing a nuclear weapon, no less the Islamic Republic of Iran.

It is childishly demagogic and intellectually dishonest to assert that Prevost/Leo believes that it is “OK for Iran to have a nuclear weapon” as his criticism was about an unjust and unnecessary preemptive war, noting as I did in Pacificist Bob Prevost Believes in a False God Who Has Never Commanded Wars to be Fought in His Holy Name that the false “pontiff’s” opposition to all wars is simply consonant with Catholic teaching and the reality of what Sacred Scripture and the facts of history teach us about what God has commanded and what his true popes have authorize in the defense of Holy Mother Church and the rights of Catholics.

Here is the final relevant passage from the New York Post article on April 13, 2026:

“And I don’t want a Pope who criticizes the President of the United States because I’m doing exactly what I was elected, IN A LANDSLIDE, to do, setting Record Low Numbers in Crime, and creating the Greatest Stock Market in History.”

Interjection Number Three:

Presidents of the United States of America are subject to criticism. They are not infallible, and the state of the stock market is completely irrelevant to the considerations of true pope when speaking on Faith and Morals and also when urging world leaders to pursue the path of the Peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ.

The spiritual poverty of the United States of America, which was founded on anti-Incarnational and Judeo-Masonic naturalistic principles, was noted by Pope Pius XII in Sertum Laetitiae, November 1, 1939:

Not with the conquest of material space does one approach to God, separation from Whom is death, conversion to Whom is life, to be established in Whom is glory; but under the guidance of Christ with the fullness of sincere faith, with unsullied conscience and upright will, with holy works, with the achievement and the employment of that genuine liberty whose sacred rules are found proclaimed in the Gospel. If, instead, the Commandments of God are spurned, not only is it impossible to attain that happiness which has place beyond the brief span of time which is allotted to earthly existence, but the very basis upon which rests true civilization is shaken and naught is to be expected but ruins over which belated tears must be shed. How, in fact, can the public weal and the glory of civilized life have any guarantee of stability when right is subverted and virtue despised and decried? Is not God the Source and the Giver of law? Is He not the inspiration and the reward of virtue with none like unto Him among lawgivers (Cf. Job xxxvi:22)? This, according to the admission of all reasonable men, is everywhere the bitter and prolific root of evils: the refusal to recognize the Divine Majesty, the neglect of the moral law, the origin of which is from Heaven, or that regrettable inconstancy which makes its victims waver between the lawful and the forbidden, between justice and iniquity.

19. Thence arise immoderate and blind egoists, that thirst for pleasure, the vice of drunkenness, immodest and costly styles in dress, the prevalence of crime even among minors, the lust for power, neglect of the poor, base craving for ill-gotten wealth, the flight from the land, levity in entering into marriage, divorce, the break-up of the family, the cooling of mutual affection between parents and children, birth control, the enfeeblement of the race, the weakening of respect for authority, or obsequiousness, or rebellion, neglect of duty towards one’s country and towards mankind.

20. We raise Our voice in strong, albeit paternal, complaint that in so many schools of your land Christ often is despised or ignored, the explanation of the universe and mankind is forced within the narrow limits of materialism or of rationalism, and new educational systems are sought after which cannot but produce a sorrowful harvest in the intellectual and moral life of the nation.

21. Likewise, just as home life, when the law of Christ is observed, flowers in true felicity, so, when the Gospel is cast aside, does it perish miserably and become desolated by vice: “He that seeketh the law, shall be filled with it: and he that dealeth deceitfully, shall meet with a stumbling block therein” (Ecclesiasticus xxxii: 19). What can there be on earth more serene and joyful than the Christian family? Taking its origin at the Altar of the Lord, where love has been proclaimed a holy and indissoluble bond, the Christian family in the same love nourished by supernal grace is consolidated and receives increase.

22. There is “marriage honorable in all, and the [nuptial] bed undefiled” (Cf. Hebrews xiii: 4). Tranquil walls resound with no quarreling voices nor do they witness the secret martyrdom which comes when hidden infidelity is laid bare; unquestioning trust turns aside the slings of suspicion; sorrow is assuaged and joy is heightened by mutual affection. Within those sacred precincts children are considered not heavy burdens but sweet pledges of love; no reprehensible motive of convenience, no seeking after sterile pleasure, brings about the frustration of the gift of life nor causes to fall into disuse the sweet names of brother and sister. With what solicitude do the parents take care that the children not only grow in physical vigor but also that, following in the footsteps of their forbears whose memory is often recalled to them, they may shine with the light which profession of the pure faith and moral goodness impart to them. Moved by the numerous benefits received, such children consider it their paramount duty to honor their parents, to be attentive to their desires, to be the staff of their old age, to rejoice their gray hairs with an affection which, unquenched by death, will be made more glorious and more complete in the mansion of Heaven. The members of the Christian family, neither querulous in adversity nor ungrateful in prosperity, are ever filled with confidence in God to Whose sway they yield willing obedience, in Whose will they acquiesce and upon Whose help they wait not in vain.

23. That the family may be established and maintained according to the wise teachings of the Gospel, therefore, the faithful should be frequently exhorted by those who have the directive and teaching functions in the churches, and these are to strive with unremitting care to present to the Lord a perfect people. For the same reason it is also supremely necessary to see to it that the dogma of the unity and indissolubility of matrimony is known in all its religious importance and sacredly respected by those who are to marry. (Pope Leo XIII, Sertum Laetitiae, November 1, 1939.)

Our last true pope thus far reiterated the warnings that Pope Leo XIII had given to the American bishops in Longiqua Oceani, January 6, 1895, and Testem Benvolentiae Nostrae, January 22, 1899, concerning the inconstancy that makes men who know nothing of First and Last Things waver between “the lawful and the forbidden” and between “justice and iniquity, something that is even more apt for our times eighty-six and one-half years later.

Now, although I will write about Vice President James David Vance’s very shallow views about the role of the papacy in public affairs he knows as much about the Social Reign of Christ the King as I did until the late-1980s, that is, nothing at all, in a few days, it is quite necessary to comment about Donald John Trump’s blasphemous portrayal of himself as Our Lord that he posted on Truth Social shortly after his screed about Antipope Leo XIV at a time when he also generated an image of a computer rendering of the Trump, Library, Museum, Hotel and Casino that he plans to build in Miami, Florida, as it would look like on the moon.

To do what Trump did by having himself portrayed as Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Himself even though he later fabricated a story about wanting to be portrayed as a “doctor” without explaining how many doctors go to work and present themselves before patients as wearing the sort of garments Our Lord is portrayed as wearing in artistic portrayals of His Most Sacred Heart is to betray oneself as a secular messias who can heal the sick, cure the infirm, restore sight to the blind, and bring light in the world. This is what Trump thinks of himself and, sadly, many Protestants and even a lot of fully traditional Catholics have rendered unto Trump their undying loyalties and unwavering trust.

Trump even turned on one of his most dependable European allies, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who criticized Trump’s attacks on Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV, which prompted Trump to denounce her for her criticism of him and for her refusal to involve Italy in his preemptive war with Iran:

For years, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy enjoyed leverage as the right-wing leader who could bridge the gap between Europe and President Trump.

This week, though, she seems to have decided that Mr. Trump is a bridge too far.

After suffering major political setbacks because of her association with Mr. Trump, who is deeply unpopular in Italy and seen as the cause of rising gas prices, Ms. Meloni seized on an opportunity to extricate herself from a relationship that had grown domestically and internationally poisonous. After Mr. Trump launched a broadside on Monday against Pope Leo XIV, Ms. Meloni rallied to the American pontiff’s defense, saying, “I find President Trump’s remarks about the Holy Father unacceptable.”

Mr. Trump, clearly jilted, lashed out at Ms. Meloni, saying in an interview with an Italian newspaper on Tuesday that he hadn’t talked to her “in a long time,” was vexed by her lack of participation in the war in Iran and was “shocked by her,” adding, “I thought she was brave, but I was wrong.” He responded to her “unacceptable” criticism by snapping, “She’s the one who’s unacceptable.” On Wednesday, he added in a television interview that with Italy, “we do not have the same relationship.”

The spat seemed to be the end of, or at least a low point for, perhaps Mr. Trump’s most special relationship in Europe.

It is also another remarkable moment in the career of Ms. Meloni, who has over decades shifted from teenage neofascist activist to hard-right party leader — before finally emerging as a pragmatic conservative and the first female prime minister of Italy.

When Mr. Trump returned to power last year, many in the European establishment feared that he would pull her to the far-right extremes. Instead, analysts suggest, Mr. Trump may have actually pushed her deeper into the Europe mainstream.

“In the relationship with Trump, she originally thought he could be an asset, and maybe he was, because she could appear as the person that could mediate between the rest of Europe and Trump,” said Roberto D’Alimonte, an emeritus professor of political science at the University of Florence. “But gradually it has become a liability. I think she took advantage of what he said about the pope to make a firm statement and take distance. She couldn’t do otherwise.”

At first, Ms. Meloni’s connection to Mr. Trump had the makings of a beautiful friendship.

In 2018, when she was still a marginal figure looking for oxygen in Italy’s crowded populist space, Ms. Meloni invited Mr. Trump’s former top adviser, Stephen K. Bannon, to be the guest of honor at her political conference, named after a hero in “The NeverEnding Story.” The next year, she proudly called herself “the only Italian” invited to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington. She spoke on the same day as Mr. Trump, and from her seat in the audience gushed about his remarks on social media even as he delivered them.

In 2022, she said in an interview with The New York Times: “Trump did some very good things when he was president. For example, in foreign policy, we had no problems. There were no wars.”

Years later, when they were both at the height of their power, they seemed to be hitting it off.

“You don’t mind being called beautiful, right?” Mr. Trump said to Ms. Meloni at a summit in Egypt last October. “You are.”

Despite the public displays of affection, throughout his second term, Mr. Trump has increasingly put pressure on Ms. Meloni, along with other European allies, to increase Italy’s military spending and to accept unfavorable trade terms.

She showed signs of resistance. Last April, as Mr. Trump threatened to raise tariffs, she said, “I think the choice of the United States is a wrong choice,” even as she cautioned against retaliatory tariffs from Europe.

Then things started getting tense. In January, as Mr. Trump increasingly began to float the idea of taking Greenland, she said, “I don’t believe in the idea of the U.S. launching military action on Greenland, which I would not agree with.” Days later, when Mr. Trump walked back his threats, she spoke as someone who understood him, saying she was “not surprised, to be honest.”

But when Mr. Trump decided to attack Iran, he did not give Ms. Meloni a heads-up. To her humiliation, her defense minister was vacationing in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, at the time and had to be evacuated via military jet.

The war also led to a spike in gas and electricity prices in Italy. Ms. Meloni, a populist with a sharp sense of pocketbook issues, understood the political danger, especially as Italians prepared to vote in a referendum on a crucial judicial change that she supported.

As poll after poll showed that Italy did not support the war and did not like Mr. Trump, Ms. Meloni started speaking out.

“I am concerned, obviously, because it would be stupid to believe that what happens even far from our borders does not involve us,” she said on March 2, adding, “The United States and Israel decided to attack without the involvement of their European partners.”

Days later, she made it clear that “we are not at war and we do not want to go to war.” She dispatched Guido Crosetto, the defense minister who had been marooned in Dubai, to be even more forceful, saying the attack by the United States and Israel “certainly happened outside the rules of international law.” She then added in a speech to Parliament that because the United States had problems communicating, she couldn’t necessarily endorse the American assessment that Iranian intransigence had thwarted negotiations over a deal.

Ms. Meloni has also sought daylight with Israel, previously a key ally. This week, she announced that Italy would not automatically renew its defense agreement with Israel “in view of the current situation.”

For all her effort to distance herself from Mr. Trump’s war, she badly lost the referendum on the judiciary anyway, after the vote became perceived as a plebiscite on her own popularity. In an effort to settle scores with those she believed had done her wrong, she fired a minister and aides whom she held responsible for the defeat.

But analysts said that a rupture with Mr. Trump was the breakup that would matter most to Italian voters. And Mr. Trump’s attack on the pope gave her an opening.

Now, experts say, Ms. Meloni will have to decide if she wants to go it alone, or seek closer alliances in the European establishment that she rose to power bashing.

After an important European ally, Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary, lost power on Sunday, Ms. Meloni is in need of new friends, particularly as she prepares for elections in Italy expected next year.

“She’ll have to get closer to Europe,” Mr. D’Alimonte said. “Now she’s isolated.”

For Mr. Trump’s part, he complained that she wasn’t the leader he thought he knew. “She’s much different,” he said, “than I thought.”  (Trump Breaks With Meloni, Italy’s Leader, Amid Dispute Over Pope and Iran.)

Donald John Trump expects everyone to agree with him all the time, and then, true thug that is, to bludgeon those who do criticize no matter how much they have agreed with him in the past or have suffered personally and politically for doing so. It is all or nothing for the narcissist named Donald John Trump.

When it comes to Trump’s blasphemous portrayal of himself as Our Lord requires a condemnation by every Catholic in the Trump administration of such an abomination and/or to resign from his service. This is not a minor matter. This is not a “humorous” matter in the slightest.

We have been baptized and confirmed to bear witness to Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ as members of His one, true Church, the Catholic Church, and to denounce blasphemy and sacrilege without fear of the consequences, including without fear of the delusional Donald John Trump, whose immortal soul, far from what William Franklin Graham IV said recently, is not “secure” and, quite to the contrary, is more imperil of imminent eternal loss than Iranian leaders are to developing and deploying a nuclear weapon.

As I have noted in many hundreds upon hundreds of articles, Donald John Trump is not entitled to a “free pass” just because the Democrats are even worse.

Alas, many Catholics have and continue to give Trump a “free pass” even though he remains a firm supporter of sodomy, has the blood of innocent children on his hands by refusing to enforce the Comstock Law and using his Department of Justice to file lawsuits against efforts by state governments to block the distribution of the abortion pill, and his full-throated support for the evil that is in vitro fertilization.

However, we can never suspend our opposition to evils just because “our man” is believed to be
“better” than others who support the same evils and then some.

Moreover, President Donald John Trump’s prosecution of the war in Iran and the increase in energy costs caused thereby is going to result in an electoral disaster for the “good guys” by the “bad guys” on November 3, 2026.

For what?

For what do Catholics, of all people, hold their tongues and continue to serve as ready acolytes for a puppet of the murderous Zionists, epic blasphemer, and notorious narcissist who believes that he has his “Own” Morality in His Own Mind, think are going to gain from Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by refusing to admit that the man in whom they have place their naturalistic trust, if not blind faith, Donald John Trump enjoys the favor the One Whom he blasphemes and mocks?

Let me remind one and all of the following words of Pope Leo XIII in Sapientiae Christianae, January 11, 1890:

But, if the laws of the State are manifestly at variance with the divine law, containing enactments hurtful to the Church, or conveying injunctions adverse to the duties imposed by religion, or if they violate in the person of the supreme Pontiff the authority of Jesus Christ, then, truly, to resist becomes a positive duty, to obey, a crime; a crime, moreover, combined with misdemeanor against the State itself, inasmuch as every offense leveled against religion is also a sin against the State. Here anew it becomes evident how unjust is the reproach of sedition; for the obedience due to rulers and legislators is not refused, but there is a deviation from their will in those precepts only which they have no power to enjoin. Commands that are issued adversely to the honor due to God, and hence are beyond the scope of justice, must be looked upon as anything rather than laws. You are fully aware, venerable brothers, that this is the very contention of the Apostle St. Paul, who, in writing to Titus, after reminding Christians that they are "to be subject to princes and powers, and to obey at a word," at once adds: "And to be ready to every good work."Thereby he openly declares that, if laws of men contain injunctions contrary to the eternal law of God, it is right not to obey them. In like manner, the Prince of the Apostles gave this courageous and sublime answer to those who would have deprived him of the liberty of preaching the Gospel: "If it be just in the sight of God to hear you rather than God, judge ye, for we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard." (Pope Leo XIII, Sapientiae Christianae, January 10, 1890.)

But in this same matter, touching Christian faith, there are other duties whose exact and religious observance, necessary at all times in the interests of eternal salvation, become more especially so in these our days. Amid such reckless and widespread folly of opinion, it is, as We have said, the office of the Church to undertake the defense of truth and uproot errors from the mind, and this charge has to be at all times sacredly observed by her, seeing that the honor of God and the salvation of men are confided to her keeping. But, when necessity compels, not those only who are invested with power of rule are bound to safeguard the integrity of faith, but, as St. Thomas maintains: "Each one is under obligation to show forth his faith, either to instruct and encourage others of the faithful, or to repel the attacks of unbelievers.'' To recoil before an enemy, or to keep silence when from all sides such clamors are raised against truth, is the part of a man either devoid of character or who entertains doubt as to the truth of what he professes to believe. In both cases such mode of behaving is base and is insulting to God, and both are incompatible with the salvation of mankind. This kind of conduct is profitable only to the enemies of the faith, for nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good. Moreover, want of vigor on the part of Christians is so much the more blameworthy, as not seldom little would be needed on their part to bring to naught false charges and refute erroneous opinions, and by always exerting themselves more strenuously they might reckon upon being successful. After all, no one can be prevented from putting forth that strength of soul which is the characteristic of true Christians, and very frequently by such display of courage our enemies lose heart and their designs are thwarted. Christians are, moreover, born for combat, whereof the greater the vehemence, the more assured, God aiding, the triumph: "Have confidence; I have overcome the world." Nor is there any ground for alleging that Jesus Christ, the Guardian and Champion of the Church, needs not in any manner the help of men. Power certainly is not wanting to Him, but in His loving kindness He would assign to us a share in obtaining and applying the fruits of salvation procured through His grace.

The chief elements of this duty consist in professing openly and unflinchingly the Catholic doctrine, and in propagating it to the utmost of our power. For, as is often said, with the greatest truth, there is nothing so hurtful to Christian wisdom as that it should not be known, since it possesses, when loyally received, inherent power to drive away error. (Pope Leo XIII, Sapientiae Christianae, January 10, 1890.)

Pope Pius XII explained the necessity of resisting unjust laws throughout the course of his nineteen-year pontificate. Here are but two examples:

Everybody knows that the Catholic Church does not act through worldly motives, and that she accepts any and every form of civil government provided it not be inconsistent with divine and human rights. But when it does contradict these rights, Bishops and the faithful themselves are bound, by their own conscience to resist unjust laws. (Pope Pius XII, Allocution on the Cardinal Mindszenty Arrest, as found at: New York Times, February 15, 1949.)

26. We earnestly exhort “in the heart of Christ” (Phil. 1. 8) those faithful of whom We have mournfully written above to come back to the path of repentance and salvation. Let them remember that, when it is necessary, one must render to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and with greater reason, one must render to God what is God’s (Cf. Luke 20. 25). When men demand things contrary to the Divine Will, then it is necessary to put into practice the maxim of St. Peter: “We must obey God rather than men” (Acts 5. 29). Let them also remember that it is impossible to serve two masters, if these order things opposed to one another (Cf. Matt. 6. 24). Also at times it is impossible to please both Jesus Christ and men (Cf. Gal. 1. 10). But if it sometimes happens that he who wishes to remain faithful to the Divine Redeemer even unto death must suffer great harm, let him bear it with a strong and serene soul.

27. On the other hand, We wish to congratulate repeatedly those who, suffering severe difficulties, have been outstanding in their loyalty to God and to the Catholic Church, and so have been “counted worthy to suffer disgrace for the name of Jesus” (Acts 5. 41). With a paternal heart We encourage them to continue brave and intrepid along the road they have taken, keeping in mind the words of Jesus Christ: “And do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather be afraid of him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell . . . But as for you, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Therefore do not be afraid . . . Therefore everyone who acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven. But whoever disowns me before men, I in turn will disown him before my Father in heaven” (Matt. 10. 28, 30-33). (Pope Pius XII, Ad Sinarum Gentes, October 7, 1954.)

Pope Pius XII also explained that nations not built upon the firm foundation of the Catholic Faith must wind up as places of injustice and iniquity:

4. If we weigh carefully the causes of today’s crises and those that are ahead, we shall soon find that human plans, human resources, and human endeavors are futile and will fail when Almighty God — He who enlightens, commands, and forbids; He who is the source and guarantor of justice, the fountainhead of truth, the basis of all laws — is esteemed but little, denied His proper place, or even completely disregarded. If a house is not built on a solid and sure foundation, it tumbles down; if a mind is not enlightened by the divine light, it strays more or less from the whole truth; if citizens, peoples, and nations are not animated by brotherly love, strife is born, waxes strong, and reaches full growth.

5. It is Christianity, above all others, which teaches the full truth, real justice, and that divine charity which drives away hatred, ill will, and enmity. Christianity has been given charge of these virtues by the Divine Redeemer, who is the way, the truth, and the life,[2] and she must do all in her power to put them to use. Anyone, therefore, who knowingly ignores Christianity — the Catholic Church — or tries to hinder, demean, or undo her, either weakens thereby the very bases of society, or tries to replace them with props not strong enough to support the edifice of human worth, freedom, and well-being.

6. There must, then, be a return to Christian principles if we are to establish a society that is strong, just, and equitable. It is a harmful and reckless policy to do battle with Christianity, for God guarantees, and history testifies, that she shall exist forever. Everyone should realize that a nation cannot be well organized or well ordered without religion. (Pope Pius XII, Meminisse Iuvat, July 14, 1958.)

We would never be arguing about the inarguable (the inviolability of innocent human life, the fact that there are only two genders, that the sin of Sodom and its related vices are abhorrent and can never enjoy the favor of the civil law nor be celebrated within civil society, etc.) in a country that recognizes the Sovereignty of Christ the King and that acknowledges the authority of the Catholic Church to interpose herself with the civil authorities in all that pertains to the good of souls after exhausting her Indirect Powers of teaching, preaching, exhortation, and admonition to warn such authorities of the consequences for defying the binding precepts of the Divine Positive Law and the Natural Law.

When one realizes these truths, good readers, there is really no need to descend into the depths of the latest conflict within the Judeo-Masonic world of naturalism as the only thing that should matter to us is to beg Our Lady through her Most Holy Rosary for the conversion of the United States of America and everyone within her so that, transfigured by Sanctifying Grace, all nations and men will call her “Blessed” and to see in her Divine Son’s Most Holy Cross the only true standard of authentic human liberty and thus of pursuit of the common temporal good in light of man’s Last End.

Pray to Our Lady for the conversion ofth Donald John Trump, Peter Hegseth, Benjamin Netanyahu, all Talmudists and Zionists, and all Mohammedans in Iran and everywhere else—and, indeed, all men everywhere, including all Protestants of one stripe or another to the Faith, outside of which there is no salvation and without which there can be no genuine social order within nations or the Prince of Peace among them.

Most of all, beg Our Lady every day through her Most Holy Rosary for the restoration of a true pope on the Throne of Saint Peter.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Joseph, pray for us.

Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.

Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.

Saint John the Evangelist, pray for us.

Saint Michael the Archangel, pray for us.

Saint Gabriel the Archangel, pray for us.

Saint Raphael the Archangel, pray for us.

Saints Joachim and Anne, pray for us.

Saints Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar, pray for us.

Saint Benedict Joseph Labre, pray for us.