Iran’s President, Masoud Pezeshkian, ever the manipulative propagandist, sent an apology to the Pope after Trump allegedly insulated Jesus: “His Holiness Pope Leo XIV, I condemn the insult to Your Excellency on behalf of the great nation of Iran, and declare that the desecration of Jesus, the prophet of peace and brotherhood, is not acceptable to any free person. I wish you glory by Allah.”
It’s understandable coming from Masoud. His people hang you if you burn a Koran.
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🇮🇷🇻🇦🇺🇸 Iran’s President, Masoud Pezeshkian send an apology to the Pope after Trump insulated Jesus:
“His Holiness Pope Leo XIV, I condemn the insult to Your Excellency on behalf of the great nation of Iran, and declare that the desecration of Jesus, the prophet of peace… pic.twitter.com/sebmlvLXA2
— Megatron (@Megatron_ron) April 13, 2026
Correction
That meme has floated around for a while.
Trump explained the meme.
After a national uproar ensued, Trump explained during a news conference that he believed the meme depicted him as a Red Cross doctor.
“Well, it wasn’t depicted—it was me. I did post it, and I thought it was me as a doctor and had to do with the Red Cross, as a Red Cross worker there, which we support,” Trump said. “And only the fake news could come up with that one.”
“So I had—I just heard about it, and I said, ‘How did they come up with that?’ It’s supposed to be me as a doctor making people better. And I do make people better—I make people a lot better.”
Originally, we noted that President Trump said he wants to do the work of Jesus Christ, but that wasn’t his explanation, though he had said it. The statement above was his explanation.
How This Began
This all began with the Pope’s attack and Trump’s response. The Pope suggested that President Trump was conducting the Iran war for glory and money. When President Trump responded, he was pilloried.
If the Pope is going to be political, sorry, but he can then be criticized.
Pope Leo XIV met with David Axelrod before a sermon on Sunday, during which the Pope suggested the Iran war was about glory and money. Axelrod probably asked the Pope to help defeat Trump’s agenda before the midterms, and the Pope is complying.
The Pope has never said anything about the missing migrant children, the Nigerian genocide, the murder of Sheridan Gorman, or the persecution of nuns by Barack Obama. He also didn’t mention the roughly 40,000 protesters gunned down or hanged by the Iranian regime.
President Trump is addressing the persecution of Christians and trying to do something about it.