“Late Present” host Stephen Colbert on Thursday mentioned President Donald Trump’s assaults on Pope Leo XIV could be a part of a distraction marketing campaign.
Nevertheless it’s not a really efficient one.
“Trump’s ongoing papal feud has didn’t distract anybody from this image he posted of himself as Jesus,” Colbert mentioned as he confirmed the now-infamous picture, which the president has since deleted:
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“Dude, you’ll be able to’t evaluate your self to Jesus,” Colbert identified. “For one factor, Jesus’ father cherished him.”
The viewers erupted on the dig.
Colbert additionally mocked Republican leaders who’ve defended Trump’s assaults on Leo, who has drawn the president’s wrath for talking out in opposition to warfare because the president continues his marketing campaign in opposition to Iran.
Home Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), for instance, tried to appropriate the pope, explaining that the warfare in Iran is justified by “a really nicely settled matter of Christian theology” that’s known as “the simply warfare doctrine.”
Colbert may hardly imagine what he was listening to.
“Correcting the pope on Catholic theology is a little bit like going into the woods and saying, ‘Uh, excuse me, Mr. Bear. Do you actually suppose that is the suitable place so that you can be pooping?’”
Colbert ― himself a training Catholic ― then supplied Johnson a correction on the “simply warfare” doctrine requires assembly sure standards earlier than a warfare will be thought-about to have “simply trigger.”
“Versus Trump, who seems to have taken us to warfare simply cuz,” Colbert mentioned.
See extra in his Thursday night time monologue: