Trump is a troll – but his 'ugly' pope selfie demands a damning response

The America-attacking Donald Trump descended further into the sewer on Friday, once again proving that his singular talent during his long, miserable life has been the ability to somehow always go lower, while dragging the willing accomplices who kiss his ample a-- down into the stink and the bilge with him.

I debated about whether to write about this one, because as we all know that while narcissists and 11-year-old bullies don’t love negative attention, they are absolutely terrified of getting no attention at all.

So when I saw the White House fly the hideous post (above) with no comment Friday night, I was repulsed and angered, which I know is exactly what the America-attacker and his odious enablers want.

Look, I am not a religious man, and in fact have some serious issues with the Catholic Church, so the trumpeting of this childish crap by Pope Felon the 1st and his ghastly followers doesn’t offend my senses from that standpoint. I won’t be pounding on the Bible and citing any of what I am sure are 1,473 passages in the good book that address this kind of sacrilegious gunk.

That would be sanctimonious on my part.

I will defend Catholics who take offense to it, though, because it is no doubt intentionally hurtful, which is the other thing the dead-inside Trump is effortlessly good at. Whether it be the disabled, our fallen, women, or people of color, the grotesque man-child will always gleefully manufacture any opportunity he can find to pile insult onto tragedy.

I’ll take it the woman-abusing felon who a judge said is an adjudicated rapist is butt-hurt that the recently deceased Pope Francis had the good taste to distance himself as much as possible from the devil himself.

Like most human beings, Francis knew Trump to be an abuser, not a healer ... a liar, not a truth-teller ... an unrepentant felon, not a law-abiding citizen.

Ugly.

The normal, decent and God-fearing folks across the world will never understand how any of this is OK, or far, far worse, how this kind of unholy hell was able to ascend to power not once, but twice, while violently attacking America in between.

So for that reason, and that reason alone, I decided to take public issue with this taxpayer-funded, childish display of insult and hate, and alert you in the event you didn't see it.

I know this will only fill the veins of the attention-seeking monster with the poison that fuels him, but as sure as I am typing this, sooner or later it is going to kill him. The religious true-believers, and wise-guy columnists like myself will align to tell you that when he finally goes the way of Francis, it will be straight down not up.

Remember: It’s his singular talent.

Can I get an amen?

(D. Earl Stephens is the author of “Toxic Tales: A Caustic Collection of Donald J. Trump’s Very Important Letters” and finished up a 30-year career in journalism as the Managing Editor of Stars and Stripes. You can find all his work here, and follow him on Bluesky here.)

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