I’ve been reluctant to weigh in on the most recent Wag the Dog diversion from the increasingly desperate and demented team surrounding the leader of the free world–picking a fight with the Pope himself. For the record, I find this all as ludicrous and pathetic as anything that’s come out of his diabolical camp–I personally know way too many people who have dealt with Fat Orange Jesus personally that will actually swear on a Bible that he’s a dumb as a bag of rocks–which is a lot more than he was capable of doing when he defaulted his way back into the White House a little more than a year ago (I know it seems like an eternity).
There’s been arguably far too much already written about this WWE-level banter, as well as the even more stunningly inept moves by his most ardent enablers to amplify and justify his incendiary behavior. Even I immediately recognized that Pete Hegseth was channeling Jules Winfield when he turned the Pentagon into the Pentateuch last week. I have one person to thank for that–somehow who actually allowed me to rewatch PULP FICTION with a group on one of the more satisfying days I had in the brief period I was fortunate enough to know her. That same person was also responsible for what little I actually know about interacting with Jesus. I’ve mused about that previously, as well as my times in the company of Pat Robertson and some of his cronies in the mega-church world. So for as inexperienced and unsaved as I may indeed be, I know more than enough to know what’s a false idol.
And that’s why while so much attention is being paid to the petty name-calling from DJT, the skewed “just war” defense being mumbled by house speaker and reformed masturbator Mike Johnson and the lecturing call from seven-year veteran of Catholism J.D. Vance to have Pope Leo just shut up and divine, I feel it’s necessary to lay more than a little bit of blame for all of this at the Loubotin-clad feet of one Paula White-Cain.
As authoritative a source as THE CHRISTIAN POST dedicated what would appear to be its entire staff earlier this month to chronicle how she planted a few seeds in the thin-skinned remnants of 47’s brain:
Televangelist Paula White-Cain stoked a firestorm of backlash for likening President Donald Trump to Jesus Christ during a private Easter lunch at the White House with other Christian leaders on Wednesday. In remarks that repeatedly implied she had received special revelation from the Holy Spirit, White-Cain claimed God told her to tell Trump how thankful she is for him, according to footage of the ceremony that was uploaded by the White House to YouTube before being taken down.
“I felt like I was conveying the heart of God for all of us, that we are thankful for the greatest champion of faith that we’ve ever seen in a president. And we honor you because of your bold, unwavering conviction and stand for religious liberty, here in America and around the world,” she said. After claiming Trump made it possible to worship God in the United States again, White-Cain said “the strength of a nation is through Almighty God” before attributing Trump’s victories both to God and to him. “But the truth of it is, you are here because of God and because of you,” she told Trump, who quietly thanked her as Robert Jeffress, senior pastor of First Baptist Dallas, patted his arm and said, “Amen, that is so true.”
If I hadn’t been personally exposed to the likes of Robertson and his then-contemporaries and witnessed first-hand the personal and theological hypocrises they espoused I might not be quite as confident that I know exactly full of sh-t she is. And, naturally, playing Trump like a masterful violinist for her own gains, making her as much of a transactional female as Stormy Daniels ever was.
And if you’re truly looking for testimony bear witness to what THE INDEPENDENT’s Harry Cockburn contributed a day after White-Cain’s performance:
White-Cain was first officially appointed to the White House in 2019 as a religious advisor under the Office of Public Liaison, but has reportedly been in contact with Donald Trump since 2002, after he rang her having seen her on TV. She has become a key part of the Trump administration’s efforts to retain evangelical votes, and was also selected to speak at the president’s inauguration in 2017.
However, she has routinely been at the centre of controversies. In 2020, she delivered a sermon calling on Jesus Christ to “command all satanic pregnancies to miscarry”, and has also previously declared the White House is “holy ground”, and also that “to say no to President Trump would be saying no to God.” Last month she urged her followers to donate “the first tenth of your gross income” to support her ministry and its causes, including funding projects in Israel.
If you’ve noticed more than a few common behaviorial patterns between what she’s spewed lately and what’s been coming out of the mouths of the Prayer Warriors of Washington this past week, good for you. Sure sounds like she’s spent more time in this White House than Melania, and likely laid on her hands more than Sweet Pea has to boot.
Of course she’s not alone in her brainwashing of the clown college that masquerades as our ruling class. Still very much in the mix is our old Borscht Belt reject Lance Wallnau. We’ve previously mused about him as well–click on it, please; you’ll learn enough to loath him as much as the late Rob Reiner did. And lately he’s been blathering an awful lot about End Times Jesus and an obscure Biblical figure known as Melchizedek. Fortunately for neophytes like moi, the likes of Hope Bolinger at BIBLE STUDY TOOLS can objectively explain who he was:
Melchizedek stands as one of Scripture’s most enigmatic and theologically profound figures. Though his story appears in just a few verses in Genesis 14, his spiritual significance reverberates throughout the Old and New Testaments. As both king of Salem and priest of God Most High, Melchizedek emerges mysteriously, blesses Abraham, and receives a tithe, only to vanish from the narrative as quickly as he arrived.
Melchizedek, whose name means “king of righteousness,” was both king of Salem (commonly believed to be early Jerusalem) and priest of God Most High (El Elyon)…Though only briefly mentioned in Genesis, Melchizedek is revisited in Psalm 110:4, a messianic prophecy: “You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.”
This same verse is quoted in Hebrews 5–7, where Melchizedek becomes central to explaining how Jesus’ priesthood differs from and surpasses the Levitical priesthood established through Aaron. Unlike Levitical priests, Melchizedek’s priesthood is eternal, without a recorded beginning or end (Hebrews 7:3). This theological point makes Melchizedek a foreshadowing of Christ…Some biblical scholars believe that Melchizedek was a “type of Christ” – a real historical figure whose role foreshadowed Jesus. Others suggest he may have been a Christophany – an Old Testament appearance of the pre-incarnate Christ.
An alternative to Christ who takes a tithe and predicts the End Times. Sure sounds like a mash-up of White-Cain, Wallnau and Hegseth to me.
But why take out all of this on Pope Leo himself? Well, this IS someone from the South Side of Chicago, the baddest part of town. We know what other president–the one who actually has a real Nobel Prize–once hailed from that zip code.
And every single time this president literally drips with disdain and utter jealousy when he emphasizes the middle name Hussein in describing him, it’s easy to connect the dots as to how he associates this particular Pontiff with someone who keeps him up at night prompting rage-tweet after rage-tweet. In his excuse for a mind, they must somehow be in cahoots.
Fortunately, it does seem like this latest example of toddler behavior might be having a material impact on those of us perhaps a tad less obsessive. USA TODAY’s Marc Ramirez provided this hopeful update early this morning:
Nearly 60% of Catholics backed Trump in the 2024 election, but Mathew Schmalz, founding editor of the Journal of Global Catholicism, said up to a third of that support may have since withered as the president and the pope have clashed over U.S. deportation policies and the Iran war. The spat threatens to scuttle a key constituency heading into the 2026 midterms…Nicholas Hayes-Mota, a social ethicist and public theologian at Santa Clara University in California, said the cumulative effects of the last two weeks, capped by Trump’s since-deleted AI image on Truth Social, has already pushed some to break with the president.
Assuming midterms are indeed held, this may yet prove to be significant enough a cohort to impact key races around the country. Wallnau himself crows incessantly about how there are 30 million people of faith in America. 20 per cent of that total (a third of 60 per cent) is six million. That’s more actual potential voters than there are among African-American females, which the Democratic party has hung their hat on as being a priority in the process of somehow losing to this schmuck twice. If they can’t seem to find someone in their own ranks to galvanize a larger amount, they might at least be able to benefit from the self-inflicted wounds that the likes of Paula White-Cain has caused within the Republican ranks to be able to make a more sizable impact.
It IS Sunday, after all. We can all pray on it.
Until next time…