Trump’s tirade against Pope Leo XIV

For La Stampa, Trump has yet again overshot the mark:

“He failed to consider that the Vatican is not a room full of cheering fans. Before him stands an institution that has existed for millennia in a space where power is subject to scrutiny. In the words of Pope Leo, the Church’s position is not the product of a ‘debate’, but the expression of an ethical and moral judgement on reality. And yet we should remember that the flamboyant president now believes himself to be the lord of earth and heaven, so accustomed is he to being treated like a demigod by the fanatical evangelical preachers with whom he regularly surrounds himself.”