By Mike Magee
Last week, Trump’s publication of himself when the Pope appeared once again in the classic column of David French Christmas, 2024, New York Times titled “Why are so many Christians so cruel?“
As I wrote at that time, “French and his wife and three children have experienced the cruelty firsthand since he openly expressed his opposition to the duration of Donald Trump. 2016 presidential campaign. That resulted in threats to his whole family for white supremacists who went especially to his adopted Ethiopian daughter. Ultimately hey was “canceled“By their own denomination, the little ones (approximately 400,000 members), Calvinista”Presbyterian Church of America“
Around last week, the American politicians of each stripe have discussed which exactly Trump’s reason was degrading while Pope Francis was being buried. Three main theories have emerged.
1. like Malignant narcissisT, Trump could not bear the fact that Pope Francis was stealing his attention center.
2. Trump was attractive to conservative Christian evangelicals who are strongly Oppose the papacy For theological reasons.
3. Trump was attractive to conservative Catholics as the New York Post columnist Charles Gasparino Who says: “… We respect Trump more than the socialist Pope.”
Of course, there are probably elements of truth in each thesis. But I prefer to resort to my training in the high school of New York City and I think this is the product of a boring and ingenious school patio stalker who thought this was fun.
This does not mean that you have the courage to claim the property. (Obviously, this is not published without its approach). No. Hey lies To your face, saying:
“I had nothing to do it, someone invented a photo of mine dressed as the Pope, and they took him on the Internet. That is not me who, I have no idea where he came from, maybe it was AI, but I have no idea where he came from.”
With his blessing, the image was published at 10:29 pm on May 2, 2025 in his Social account of truth.
David French probably sees complicit in the shadows.
As he explained In 2024. “It is remarkable how ambition becomes cruelty. In our self -deception, we persuade our no, we are not fair, but so clearly correct that the opposition has been rooted in arrogance and evil. We are attacked.”
You can be right. But when it comes to Trump, I remember another thug and another hero. On June 1, 1950, a 53 -year -old republican senator from Maine amounted to the Senate’s floor to face Senator Joe McCarthy. Four months before, in Wheeling, WV, McCarthy had unleashed a populist in what he claimed to be a conspiracy or “205 communists with cards in the State Department.”
What happened next is proudly remembered in the official historical records of the Senate as “A declaration of consciousness. “The story speaks directly to all those that allow Trump in the current era. Tyrant.
Sirs The official account Or the efforts of the Senate Chase that day recorded by historians of the United States Senate:
‘Mister. President, “she was”, I would like to talk with letters and simply about a serious national condition … The United States Senate has long enjoyed world respect as the greatest deliberative body … but recently that deliberative character has … degraded to … a hate forum and characters murder. ‘In his 15 -minute speech, delivered as McCarthy Miraba, Smith supported the right of all Americans to criticize, protest and maintain unpopular beliefs. “Freedom of expression is not what used to be in the United States,” he complained. “It has been so abused by some who do not exercise it.” He asked his Republicans not to travel to political victory in the “four riders or slander: fear, ignorance, intolerance and smear.” At the end, Smith presented a statement signed by her and six other Republican senators, she “Declaration of consciousness.”“…
“Smith’s statement of consciousness did not end McCarthy’s reign, but she was one of the first senators to take that position. He continued to oppose him, to a great personal cost, for the next four years. Ladm final of the final boys. McCarthy censored For behavior “contrary to senatorial traditions.” McCarthy’s career was over. Margaret Chase Smith’s career was just beginning. “
Mike Magee MD is a regular medical historian and collaborator from THCB. Hey is the author of Blue Code: Inside the United States Medical Industrial Complex. (Grove/2020)
