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Trump’s faith advisor Paula White-Cain claims President ‘can quote so many sermons’
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President Donald Trump. Pope Leo XIV.Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty; ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty
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President Donald Trump insisted that he is "all about the Gospel" after Pope Leo XIV suggested that some in the Trump administration have "abused" it
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Trump claimed he has "nothing against the pope" but believes the Catholic leader is supportive of Iran having a nuclear weapon
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Pope Leo has spoken out against nuclear weapons broadly and said of Trump's war in Iran that “God does not bless any conflict”
Amid his ongoing feud with Pope Leo XIV over the war in Iran , President Donald Trump declared to reporters that he is “all about the Gospel,” "as much as anybody can be.”
Trump previously attacked the first U.S. pope in Catholic Church history as “WEAK on Crime” and labeled him an enabler of Iran’s government for calling for an end to the war that the U.S. and Israel launched in February.
The attacks — and AI-generated images shared by the president of him as a Messiah-like figure and him embracing Jesus — have drawn condemnation from American conservatives and world leaders, including Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni .
The pope has pushed back on insistence from Trump and top administration officials like Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that the war, which has killed thousands across the Middle East, is one in line with the Christian faith.
“I have nothing against the pope,” Trump said outside the White House on Thursday, April 16. “I'm not fighting with him. The pope made a statement. He says Iran can have a nuclear weapon. I say Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.”
Trump claimed he, too, was basing his decisions on the teachings of the Gospels when he was asked about a statement by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops disputing the Trump administration’s characterization of the Catholic Church’s “just war theory.”
The U.S. bishops described the pope's comments as not just “merely offering opinions on theology,” but “preaching the Gospel and exercising his ministry as the Vicar of Christ.”
“I'm all about the Gospel. I'm about it as much as anybody can be,” Trump said. “But I can't allow, as president of the United States of America, I can't allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon.”
President Donald Trump speaks to the press on April 16.Credit: Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty
Pope Leo has not commented on Iran’s nuclear program, and he has broadly called for the elimination of all nuclear weapons. Trump claimed on Thursday that Iranian negotiators relayed to the U.S. that they were willing to hand over highly enriched uranium that Trump nicknamed “nuclear dust,” but Iranian officials have yet to publicly confirm the supposed deal.
Instead, the Chicago-born pope has said that “God does not bless any conflict” and that “anyone who is a disciple of Christ, the Prince of Peace, is never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs.”
Pope Leo, who was born Robert Francis Prevost and was elevated to the papacy in May 2025 , told reporters on a flight to Algeria on Monday, April 13, that he has “no fear of the Trump administration, or speaking out loudly of the message of the Gospel, which is what I believe I am here to do,” according to The New York Times .
He added that while he doesn’t want a debate with Trump, “I don’t think that the message of the Gospel is meant to be abused in the way that some people are doing.”
President Donald Trump speaks to the press on April 16, 2026Credit: Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty
Vance, a devout Catholic who is publishing a book about his conversion to the faith as an adult, has condemned the pope’s comments and warned him to “be careful when he talks about matters of theology.”
And Hegseth, who is a member of an evangelical Christian church , has repeatedly invoked his faith as he leads the U.S. military in the war in Iran, as well as striking countries across the globe from Nigeria to Venezuela.
Just this week, he recited a prayer similar to one recited by Samuel L. Jackson’s character in the 1994 film Pulp Fiction and compared media members who scrutinize the administration to the Pharisees of the New Testament who antagonized and plotted against Jesus.
Trump, who has depended on the support of evangelical Christian communities throughout his political career, has portrayed himself as a devout follower of Christian teachings — even as his grasp of scripture has at times appeared to be publicly lacking .
Since attending the National Prayer Service at Washington, D.C.’s National Cathedral the day after his second inauguration, Trump has visited churches three times in the first 15 months of his second term: once in the United Arab Emirates , once in England and once in Vatican City for Pope Francis’ funeral last year, according to a PEOPLE review of White House pool reports and photographs.
President Donald Trump holds a Bible while visiting St. John's Church across from the White House during the 2020 George Floyd protests.Credit: Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty
On Thursday, Trump posted a letter written by Franklin Graham, one of the country’s most prominent evangelical Christians, defending him from accusations he shared an AI-generated image of himself as Jesus Christ.
“There is so much ill-intended speculation. I think his enemies are always foaming at the mouth at a possible opportunity to make him look bad,” Graham wrote. “He is the most pro-Christian, pro-life president in my lifetime and he doesn’t shy away from it.”
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If he can quote one I promise I will vote for him the next time he runs
Why do we have to be inflicted with such fools running and/or influencing our government? Our country has a lot of problems but I don't think we deserves this.
Sermons? Who quotes sermons? Like sermons from which pastor or priest? Does she know what a sermon is? Does she mean like The Sermon on the Mount? Does she mean "scripture?" WTF is she talking about?
This is the same advisor who, on Palm Sunday, stood next to Trump and equated him to Jesus entering Jerusalem. So, no big surprise when a few days later, Trump posts a meme of himself as Jesus.
You know, there is a thing people do that I have noticed. When they want to convince you that someone is smart or religious or whatever, they don't just let that person's actions or words be the evidence. They go out of their way to repeatedly - and usually with absurd exaggeration - tell you that they are smart or religious or whatever. They never have to do this with people who are genuinely smart or religious because it's actually obvious to anyone paying attention.
So, Trump's sycophants do this for him all the time. A couple weeks ago, RFK Jr. told this stupid story about how smart Trump was - that he has "encyclopedic molecular knowledge" - whatever the fuck that is. And you know it's bullshit the first time you hear it.
These devoted acolytes of the MAGA cult are always trying to convince us that Trump is a genius or deeply religious because you would never know that if you only relied on what Trump actually says or does. It's always some awe-inspiring thing he allegedly said or did behind the scenes. What a shame you didn't get to see it for yourself!
In fact, his words and actions reveal - on a daily basis - just how moronic and unreligious he truly is.
Neither of which was remotely from the Bible.
I think she meant to say Trump quotes so many vermin.
She, like other Trump sycophants, just invents claims trying to present Trump in a positive light. It is sickening to watch this level of obsequiousness.