Ben Myselish
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And it is a powerful thing when someone like Pope Leo XIV uses his position to go out and speak to these issues.
So that's why one of the reasons we're showing it.
And it is driving Donald Trump crazy.
And in the past,
whether it was Hitler, whether it was the kings in the UK and in France, if you go back to the Avignon Papacy, which is what Donald Trump has threatened to bring back through the Department of Defense when back in January he brought in Pope Leo XIV's top ambassador to D.C.
They threatened the
Avion papacy, we're gonna bring that back right there, which is a death threat because the French killed the Pope back then after kidnapping him.
This is kind of something you see with authoritarians throughout history, this kind of attack on the Pope or other leaders who intimidate them.
So that's why one of the reasons we're bringing this up right now.
And the Pope is really in Donald Trump's head and MAGA just continues to attack.
And Pope Leo XIV in Cameroon also said the world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants.
It seems pretty clear who he's talking about here.
Trump, Putin, Netanyahu, and others.
Here, play this clip.
Finally, Pope Leo XIV talks about how the masters of war pretend not to know that it takes only a moment to destroy.
Play the clip.
So, the types of people he's calling out there, Donald Trump, J.D.
Vance, who converted to Catholicism.
You have Pete Hegseth.
Again, Pete Hegseth this morning held a press conference where the entire press conference seemed to be devoted to invoking the name of God and religion