Actions Speak Louder...

April 15, 2026 (Vol. 20 No. 15) - "I am the Lord thy God. Thou shall not have strange gods before Me," is the First Commandment of the Ten Commandments. Based on the give and take of recent days between Pope Leo and President Trump, it is apparent that the Current Occupant of the Oval Office does his worshiping in front of a mirror. After the Pontiff dared to quote gospel against war during his Easter message, America's own Pompous Pilate took offense and made his hurt feelings known on his Truth Social platform. The confrontation then escalated following a 60 Minutes interview featuring three prominent American Catholic Cardinals highly critical of the president. In response, Trump wrote his longest tweet, with three times as many words as in Lincoln's Gettysburg Address:

That was just the beginning of the weird. Trump next tweeted an A-I image that was widely depicting him as Jesus Christ. After intense criticism from both sides of the aisle, he unapologettically pulled the image from the Internet, His Unholiness said that the image actually depicted him as a doctor. It has since been followed by other A-I imagery showing Trump being embraced by Jesus. This is the kind of crap we've known to expect from our fat ass president. But it has been painful to watch sycophantic Republicans like House Speaker Mini-Mike Johnson and Vice President J.D. Vance get their panties in a twist trying to justify Trump's outrageous conduct. Johnson said he believes Trump's explanation for his tweets while the spineless Vance, about to release a book about his conversion to Catholicism, basically told the Pope to "be careful" when talking about Trump's Trumped-Up War.

"Remember to keep holy the Lord's day," Commandment 3. Of course, that means nothing to Cardinal Sin. Trump saved one of this most profane tweets for Easter, the holiest day on the Christian calendar:

In my last post, I made my case for removal of Trump from office. Nothing has really changed since then, so I will not repeat it here. I invite you to follow this link if you are interested in reading it. In the spirit of a full disclosure, I also invite you to read (or reread) this post that explained my recent conversion to Catholicism. The focus of this post is to speak to the hypocrisy of the Mini-Mike Johnsons and the J.D. (Jokingly Devine) Vances of the world. These folks, all of whom profess deep Christian faith, regularly violate the First and Third Commandment, as well as Number Eight, "Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor." Nor do they concern themselves with Trump's well documented violation of Number Six, "Thou shall not commit adultery." (I am confident pedophilia is covered under that Commandment.) The same could be said for Trump's adherence to most of the remaining Commandments.

I know that no one is completely above reproach. I acknowledge that, as a mortal human being, I have sinned and have, in my own way, sought penance, This begs the central question: Why have so many people who claim to be devote Christians continue to blindly follow the man who has scorned the Constitution, the law of the land, and the Ten Commandments, the word of God? Before the Johnsons and the Vances of the evangelistic right wrap themselves up in blankets of holy hypocrisy, they must remember that their actions speak louder than their words. If you are a devote Christian, you have to walk the walk if you are going to talk the talk. That's it for now. Fear the Turtle.