Regularly, members of the Trump administration, particularly President Donald Trump himself, show they don’t seem to be the champions of free speech that they purport themselves to be, and now their evident constitutional hypocrisy has Pentagon officers threatening the Vatican and Pope Leo XIV — who is not any fan of the president — simply because the pope joined many of the world in criticizing Trump’s disastrous conflict on Iran.
In response to an in depth report by the Free Press, on Easter Sunday, whereas Trump was threatening to bomb Iran’s bridges and energy crops and unleash “Hell” on the nation, Leo XIV, born Robert Francis Prevost, delivered his State of the World speech, throughout which he urged world leaders to put down their weapons, select peace and relieve themselves of the “need to dominate others.” The worldwide chief of the Catholic Church additionally condemned “the imperialist occupation of the world” and warned that God rejects the prayers “of those that wage conflict” — which appears to be a direct rebuke of Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth, who has been internet hosting a month-to-month Christian worship service on the Pentagon because the Iran conflict started, and has been praying to his god that “each spherical discover its mark in opposition to the enemies of righteousness and our nice nation.”
So, based on the Free Press, Leo’s speech angered some officers on the Pentagon, leading to Cardinal Christophe Pierre, the Vatican’s U.S. consultant, being summoned to a closed-door Pentagon assembly, the place he acquired a stern lecture from Undersecretary of Protection for Coverage Elbridge Colby, who reportedly advised Pierre: “The US has the navy energy to do no matter it needs on the planet. The Catholic Church had higher take its aspect.”
Apart from the truth that these so-called Christian leaders of a so-called Christian nation are out right here threatening to unleash the U.S. navy on the world’s highest authority on all issues Christ, simply because the pope stated issues which are Christ-like, we actually must be extra involved that Trump officers preserve boasting about how they will do something they need as a result of they’ve probably the most highly effective navy.
Keep in mind when Trump was speaking about “operating” Venezuela and taking up Greenland, and White Home Chief of Workers Stephen Miller defended these remarks by beating his little fowl chest and declaring, “We’re in cost as a result of now we have the US navy stationed outdoors the nation,” and “we’re a superpower, and below President Trump, we’re going to conduct ourselves as a superpower” as if he himself had ever served even a day within the U.S. navy.
MAGA minions preserve defending the Trump administration in opposition to allegations that it’s an authoritarian regime, and the administration simply retains undermining that protection by vocally vindicating its accusers.
The reality is that Trump and his band of stooges — who’ve been given far more energy than incompetent, imbecilic sycophants like them ought to ever have — have been scrambling and struggling to regulate the narrative round which aspect is “successful” concerning the battle in Iran, and so they’ve been getting more and more pissed off with limitless criticism, each globally and domestically, and the rising consensus that this conflict and the administration’s lack of competent management makes the nation look weak.
Trump is even out right here threatening information retailers for reporting statements of “victory” made by Iranian management which have additionally been reported by Iranian media, which brings us to a reminder that the Pentagon lately tried to ban each mainstream information outlet from reporting on it in spite of everything of these retailers refused to bend to its new coverage that reporters can’t get hold of or solicit any info that hasn’t been pre-approved by the Division of Protection. Fortunately, a federal decide stepped in and basically advised Hegseth and different Pentagon officers that they have been out of their freedom-of-the-press-defying minds.
This administration is demonstrably an authoritarian regime, and if the pope ain’t even protected from it, then who’s?
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