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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe Donald, as the first of his lovely wives loved to call him, was miffed. He loves to play roles with AI imagery portraying him as a king, a footballer, a lion, Superman, the Pope and a lot more \u2014 except perhaps God and Donald Duck.But there was never such hullabaloo as the one over the post that, by his telling, depicted him as a healer making people better that critics including some of his ardent MAGA supporters somehow mistook for Jesus Christ! <\/p>\n Watch<\/span><\/p>\n Trump-Pope Rift Deepens As Migrant Children Aid Cut Sparks New Controversy <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u201cOnly the fake news could come up with that one, so I just heard about it, and I said, \u2018How did they come up with that?’\u201d Trump complained on Truth Social dismissing outcries of blasphemy. \u201cIt\u2019s supposed to be me making people better.\u201d\u201cAnd I do make people better. I make people a lot better,\u201d the peacemaker turned bomber turned healer claimed even as he took down the image of a Jesus-like figure administering an ethereal light to a patient\u2019s head, as translucent figures look down from the heavens.\u201cNormally I don\u2019t like doing that, but I didn\u2019t want to have anybody be confused,\u201d he wrote only to post another image hours later showing Jesus embracing him.\u201cThe Radical Left Lunatics might not like this, but I think it is quite nice!!!\u201d Trump wrote admiringly of the new image from X showing him in front of a microphone with Jesus\u2019s arms draped around him and an American flag in the background.Trump then turned his guns at Pope Leo, the first U.S.-born pontiff, over his criticism of Iran war calling him \u201cWEAK on crime\u201d and \u201cterrible for Foreign Policy.\u201d\u201cI don\u2019t want a Pope who thinks it\u2019s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon. I don\u2019t want a Pope who thinks it\u2019s terrible that America attacked Venezuela,\u201d Trump wrote claiming that he was the reason Leo was chosen as the first U.S.-born pope.Instead of backing off, Leo hit back saying a \u201cdelusion of omnipotence\u201d is fuelling the U.S.-Israel war in Iran, now in its eighth week.\u201cEnough of the idolatry of self and money!\u201d he said during a prayer service in St. Peter\u2019s Basilica in Rome. \u201cEnough of the display of power! Enough of war! True strength is shown in serving life.\u201d\u201cStop catering to the Radical Left, and focus on being a Great Pope, not a Politician,\u201d admonished the POTUS taking another potshot at the pontiff escalating the unholy war of words.Saying he has \u201cno fear of the Trump administration,\u201d Leo decried \u201cthose who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic and political gain.\u201dMeanwhile, even as Trump vowed to keep the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports \u201cin full force\u201d after the opening of Strait of Hormuz, NBC suggested Trump was looking for an off-ramp from the war with Iran.One key reason: the upcoming April-end State visit of King Charles III. In fact, Trump, according to NBC, has been talking about the visit as another reason to justify his controversial ballroom whose \u201coverground\u201d construction has been halted by an \u201cout of control Trump Hating Judge\u201d at the instance of \u201ca woman walking her dog.\u201d\u201cWater can go up to 3 to 4 inches over their shoes. It\u2019s not a good feeling,\u201d Trump told reporters a couple of weeks ago citing the potential indignity of having the British monarch step on soggy grass in the South Lawn instead of a marble floor. \u201cKing Charles, who\u2019s a great guy, we don\u2019t want him to sit in a pool of water.\u201dBack on terra firma, the great healer dispensed the virtues of diet soda to help prevent cancer, prompting some real doctors to remind the public that Trump\u2019s favorite drink will not do anything to prevent cancer.Mehmet Oz, a cardiothoracic surgeon and television personality who now leads the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, touted the boss\u2019 prescription without demur on Don Jr.\u2019s podcast.\u201cYour dad argues that diet soda is good for him because it kills grass \u2013 if poured on grass \u2013 so, therefore, it must kill cancer cells inside the body,\u201d Oz told the president\u2019s eldest son.Trump\u2019s erratic behavior and sometimes-profane statements capped by his \u201ca whole civilization will die tonight\u201d threat to wipe Iran off the map \u201chave left many with the impression of a deranged autocrat mad with power,\u201d suggested the New York Times.While the White House claims POTUS is sharp and keeping his opponents on edge, House Democrats introduced legislation that would create a commission to assess whether Trump is unfit to serve and should be removed under the 25th amendment \u2014 with little chance of success.Meanwhile, according to a Wall Street Journal fly on the wall account Trump has repeatedly promised his top aides pardons before he leaves office.\u201cT\u2019ll pardon everyone who has come within 200 feet of the Oval,\u201d Trump was quoted as saying in a recent meeting to laughs. That radius appears to be expanding from within 10 feet last year as the president repeats the line.In one conversation with advisers in the dining room next to the Oval Office last year, Trump said he would host a news conference and announce mass pardons before he left office, according to the Journal.Trump has wielded the unconditional power to pardon offered to the presidency with great abandon, dispensing some 1,600 grants to date in his second term. Many have gone to allies and donors, or those who had hired them, coming after a social pull-aside or a round of golf.It may be all fun and games for Trump, but to the world at large hoping for a reprieve from his quirky rule, it\u2019s no laughing matter.(By arrangement with The American Bazaar, www.americanbazaaronline.com<\/a>)<\/div>\n