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April 28, 2026

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The President vs. the Pope
On President Trump's April 12 social media post referring to Pope Leo XIV, the leader of the Catholic Church, as “weak on crime”...

“He insulted the pope. We have a fight between the president and the pope. The world has become a real-life episode of ‘South Park.’” - Jimmy Kimmel

“He posted ‘Pope Leo is weak on crime.’ Yeah, man, he’s the pope. He visits people in jail, though it would be cool, though, if the pope did fight crime. Then we could watch ‘Murder, She Pope.’” - Stephen Colbert

“What does the pope have to do with crime? He’s not Batman, he’s the pope. This is what happens when you sell Bibles instead of reading them.” - Jimmy Kimmel

“I am really starting to sour on this president. What is going through Trump’s mind? ‘What did the pope say? He wants what? Dialogue? Peace? He wants to choose the noblest aspirations of mankind, to show humanity at its greatest articulation? [Beep] that loser! [Beep] that guy. Who died and made him -- oh, I’m sorry? That is who died? OK. And there was a vote? White smoke?” - Jon Stewart

“According to one Italian religious historian, not even Hitler or Mussolini attacked the Pope so directly and publicly. It’s never great when someone says, ‘You should really be more discreet and respectful. You know, like Hitler.’” - Stephen Colbert

On Trump's Jesus ‘Joke’
“He didn’t stop there because, just 40 minutes later he posted this AI image depicting himself as Jesus presumably trying to heal Jon Stewart.” - Stephen Colbert

“So, Donald Trump wants us to believe that he thought he was depicting a doctor, Not Jesus Christ. If I’m in a doctor’s office and that man walks in, I’m thinking I’d die.” - Stephen Colbert

“He was posting a joke, you understand? And like all the best jokes, it had to be explained and then deleted.” - Jimmy Kimmel

Vice President JD Vance explained that Trump’s social media post, an apparently A.I.-generated image depicting himself as a Jesus-like figure, was meant as “a joke,” and that it was deleted because “a lot of people weren’t understanding his humor.”

“Yeah, it was just, it was just humor. God humor -- the Bible’s full of it.” - Stephen Colbert

“First, he was Jesus. Then he wasn’t Jesus, he was a doctor, and now it was a joke. Why did I get kicked off the air, again? I can’t remember.” - Jimmy Kimmel

Vance also commented on Pope Leo XIV’s criticism of the US bombing of Iran, saying the pontiff should “be careful when he talks about matters of theology.”

Stephen Colbert, a fellow Catholic, called Vance, a relatively recent convert, out on Wednesday. “Wow! Hey, hey, hey, JD, I know you’re Catholic, but you joined in 2019, OK? I’ve been genuflecting since the mid-1960s.”

“I think you’re out over your Catholic skis here, OK? I think it’s time for you to sit down, then stand back up. Then kneel. Then stand again. Then shake hands with people around you. Then kneel a little more, then go take communion, then go back to your pew for some more kneeling, because you’re not sneaking out of here after communion. Because you know who left the last supper early? Judas.” - Stephen Colbert

“You see, the pope’s position is that peace is good, and Donald Trump’s position is that he is Jesus Christ. So JD Vance had to go out there in front of literally dozens of people, and try to argue that the pope was wrong and A.I. Jesus was right.” - Ronny Chieng

“You got to be careful when you talk about theology, pope! Let me just remind you guys that what the pope basically said was, ‘War is bad.’ That’s not controversial, all right? It’s literally the pope’s job to say things like that. That’s like if Miss America wished for world peace, and JD Vance burst onstage and was like, ‘Oh, yeah, even with Hitler? Stay in your lane, [expletive]!’" - Ronny Chieng

“This is what I don’t get about guys like JD Vance, OK? How come you have no problem when the pope weighs in on abortion policy, but when he weighs in on your foreign policy, you freak out? I mean, wasn’t assassinating the ayatollah just a very, very, very late-term abortion? The man was in his 258th trimester.” - Ronny Chieng

On the Papal Punch Back
Pope Leo XIV delivered a speech in Cameroon on Thursday, expressing “woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.”

Stephen Colbert said the head of the Catholic Church “came back swinging” in what he called President Trump’s “ongoing papal feud,” or “yet another day when the entire world is on edge over Donald Trump’s senseless and elective war -- with the pope.”

“Damn, son, the pope just read you for darkness and filth.” - Stephen Colbert

“If you don’t know, and you may not, a ‘just war’ is a Catholic doctrine that goes all the way back to the church fathers, St. Ambrose and St. Augustine. There are many criteria, including: It must be in self-defense once all peace efforts have failed. Only then can the war be said to have ‘just cause.’ As opposed to Trump, who appears to have taken us to war just ’cause.” - Stephen Colbert

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