Trump Backs Claim He Has A 'Better Understanding' Of The Bible Than Pope Leo

Donald Trump on Saturday promoted a controversial Baptist pastor’s claim that he has a better grasp on the Bible than Pope Leo XIV just days after Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with the pontiff to try and cool U.S.-Vatican tensions. (Watch the clip below.)

“The great irony is it looks like President Trump has a better understanding of what the Bible teaches about the role of government than the pope has,” said the evangelical Christian leader in a Fox News clip shared by the president on Truth Social. “And I’m glad the president hasn’t backed down at all.”

Jeffress, a Trump supporter who has referred to evangelicals that don’t back the president as “spineless morons,” began his Fox News appearance by describing the first U.S.-born pontiff as a “good man” that’s “sincere in his faith” before adding an asterisk.

“But he is sincerely wrong when it comes to Iran,” said Jeffries, a reference to the pope’s criticism of the Iran war, which has fueled the president’s attacks toward the pontiff in recent weeks.

Jeffress, who once claimed that Roman Catholicism is influenced by Satan, went on to preach that the pope “ought to know” that “the role of the church is to point people to faith in Jesus Christ but the role of government is to protect citizens from evildoers, according to Romans 13.”

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I thought about posting this under Humor, but these idiots are serious.