Ben Rhodes

Like the masters of war spend all this money on bombs and, you know, weapons and get death and destruction and they should be investing in health and education, right?

And he did it more articulately than that.

That's not a direct quote.

He was speaking in Cameroon and then he was in a sea of people in the global South.

And what I was struck by is

At a time of absolute kind of amorality and immorality in the world, when you've got Putin invading Ukraine, you've got Trump like a bull in a china shop of the world, you've got Xi Jinping, this kind of obviously bloodless Chinese Communist Party leader, all these guys, and they're all guys,

He's a moral leader, and he is establishing himself as someone who's actually willing to stand up to power.

He talked about all these tyrants yesterday in Cameroon.

That message is going to go down very well among billions of people around the world, not just Catholics.

And I think what he's showing us is that the world still has a conscience.

And it makes people like Trump look small by comparison.

And that's what pisses Trump and J.D.

off is that they can't knock this guy off his pedestal.

He will be there after them.

Trump will be gone.

Pope Leo will still be there.

The Catholic Church will be there.

You know why?

Because it's been there for a couple thousand fucking years.

And I can curse because I'm not Catholic.