Bill Maher, 70, Rips Trump’s ‘Full-On Rap War’ With the Pope

Bill Maher, 70, Rips Trump’s ‘Full-On Rap War’ With the Pope

Donald Trump has picked fights with judges, generals, and late-night hosts—but now he’s throwing punches at the pope, and Bill Maher is having a field day. On Friday’s episode of Real Time With Bill Maher, the comedian tore into what he framed as Trump’s ever-expanding list of feuds, zeroing in on…

Rosie DiManno: Donald Trump picks a fight he can’t win with the Pope

In the middle of a global crisis, the U.S. president was comically distracted by the pontiff, clashing with the first American to lead the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics.

Trump’s taken aim at the Pope. It’s another holy war he can’t win

Trump was re-elected with strong support from white American Catholics. Picking a fight with the pontiff is not in his political or ecclesiastical interest.

Europe’s Conservative Catholics Won’t Put Up With Trump’s Attacks on the Pope

The See of Rome is well accustomed to quarrels with worldly princes. Perhaps the most famous of those battles was the bitter conflict between the medieval papacy and the holy Roman emperor over who had primacy over whom. The ongoing spat between Pope Leo XIV and U.S. President Donald Trump, the closest thing the modern West has to a secular emperor, is weirdly reminiscent of those ancient controversies. Like in the struggle between Guelphs (pro-…