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President Donald Trump's staffers are panicking behind the scenes after a disastrous few days in which the president attacked the pope and compared himself to Jesus Christ online, The Daily Beast reported on Monday.

"Sources in and around the White House spilled on their mood Monday to Politico’s chief White House correspondent, Dasha Burns, who requested memes on the condition of anonymity," said the report. "The responses suggest things feel like they’re on fire. One administration official sent a GIF from the sitcom The IT Crowd, showing protagonist Moss frantically typing on a computer as a fire burns in the foreground."

Republican senators breathed a collective sigh of relief Monday after President Donald Trump deleted an AI-generated image depicting himself as Jesus Christ, but most refused to condemn his blistering social media attacks on Pope Leo XIV.

Trump posted the image Sunday, showing himself in robes appearing to heal a sick man, evoking classic artistic depictions of Jesus. The post drew immediate condemnation from Christian leaders and conservative commentators alike before Trump pulled it down Monday morning, telling reporters he "thought it was me as a doctor."

CNN's Anderson Cooper delivered a devastating takedown of President Donald Trump over his weekend attacks on Pope Leo XIV.

On Sunday, Trump posted on Truth Social that Pope Leo is "weak" on crime and foreign policy. He also impugned the character of the Pope, accusing him of catering to the "radical left," and said he doesn't appreciate the Pope criticizing the war in Iran or Trump's immigration agenda. He doubled down on those remarks during a press conference at Joint Base Andrews on Sunday night when he said the Pope is a "very liberal person" who "doesn't believe in stopping crime."

A political analyst was stunned on Monday after President Donald Trump retreated from his religious snafus over the weekend.

Trump posted on Truth Social on Sunday that Pope Leo XIV is "weak" on crime and foreign policy, and that Trump "doesn't want" a Pope who criticizes him or his administration's war with Iran. Trump also posted, and then deleted, a photo of himself appearing as Jesus Christ while healing a man lying on a bed. Both posts generated significant criticism from analysts and lawmakers.

Political analysts and observers dragged Vice President JD Vance on Monday after he defended President Donald Trump's attack on Pope Leo XIV over the weekend.

On Sunday, Trump posted on Truth Social that Pope Leo is "weak" on crime and foreign policy. Trump added that he "doesn't want a Pope" who criticizes him or the war that the Trump administration started in Iran. Trump's comments were swiftly rebuked by members of both parties.

A GOP strategist came unglued during a segment on CNN while discussing the recent resignation of two lawmakers accused of sexual assault.

Shermichael Singleton joined CNN's Anderson Cooper on "The Lead" on Monday, where they discussed the recent resignation announcements from Reps. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) and Eric Swalwell (D-CA), both of whom have been accused of sexually assaulting young women who worked for them. Both lawmakers have denied the allegations.

President Donald Trump may have set up Vice President JD Vance to fail on his latest trip to negotiate an end to the war in Iran because Trump knows Vance is "not on board" with the operation, one analyst speculated on Monday.

Brandon Weichert, host of "NatSec Talk" on Rumble, joined conservative podcaster and radio host Megyn Kelly on "The Megyn Kelly Show" on Monday to discuss Vance's trip to Pakistan. Vance traveled to the country and met with Iranian officials for more than 20 hours, but failed to secure a peace deal, according to reports.

Prominent racial historian Ibram X. Kendi said he is now confident enough to make a claim he once held back on — that "great replacement theory" is the driving ideological force behind President Donald Trump's second term.

Kendi, the 2016 National Book Award-winning author of "Stamped From the Beginning," made the declaration in a new interview promoting his latest book, "Chain of Ideas," a global examination of racial authoritarianism and how replacement theory is used to justify it.

Fox News host Jesse Watters was buried in mockery on Monday after he made an eye-popping claim about a Democratic lawmaker.

Watters and the panel on "The Five" discussed Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and the sexual assault allegations the lawmaker is facing during Monday's broadcast. Swalwell has been accused by at least four women of sexual misconduct and rape. The lawmaker announced he suspended his campaign for Governor of California on Sunday, and announced his intent to resign from Congress ahead of a vote to expel him on Monday afternoon.

President Donald Trump is expected to hand an award to a group of reporters at the Wall Street Journal for a story that the president later sued them for writing, according to a new report.

Dylan Byers of Punchbowl News reported on Monday that Trump will award the Katherine Graham Award for Courage and Accountability to the group of reporters who broke the "bawdy" Epstein letter story last year. The story was about a drawing that the president allegedly sent to disgraced financier and convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday.

USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins was brutally mocked on Monday after she told "lies" about the federal government's decision to close a U.S. Forest Service office in Michigan during a press conference.

Rollins spoke at the Michigan State University Dairy Cattle Teaching & Research Center on Monday, where she was asked by a reporter about the federal government's decision to close the U.S. Forest Service offices in Michigan. Rollins' answer left several political analysts and observers stunned.