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(The Hill) — Vice President Vance defended President Trump from disapproval regarding his Friday Truth Social post portraying himself arsenic a pontiff days aft the decease of Pope Francis.
“Hey, @JDVance, you good with this disrespect and mocking of the Holy Father?” Bill Kristol, who served arsenic main of unit to the vice president successful the Bush administration, wrote successful a Saturday post connected the societal media level X.
“As a wide rule, I'm good with radical telling jokes and not good with radical starting anserine wars that termination thousands of my countrymen,” Vance, who converted to Catholicism in 2019, wrote successful a response to Kristol, who was an advocator for the 2003 Iraq invasion.
The vice president's defence of Trump comes arsenic others expressed their disapproval of the post, which was besides reposted by the authoritative White House account.
“There is thing clever oregon comic astir this image, Mr. President. We conscionable buried our beloved Pope Francis and the cardinals are astir to participate a solemn conclave to elite a caller successor of St. Peter. Do not mock us,” the Catholic Bishops of New York State wrote successful a post connected X.
In precocious April, Catholic cardinals decided that May 7 would service arsenic the commencement day for the conclave to elite Pope Francis’ successor.
“As a Catholic, I instrumentality large discourtesy to Donald Trump mocking Catholics,” Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) wrote connected X.
“I privation Trump would absorption connected lowering prices instead. The American system had antagonistic GDP maturation past quarter. That’s what helium should beryllium focused connected alternatively of making amusive of Catholics,” helium added.
Earlier this week, Vance touted his peculiar transportation with the pope, whom helium met 1 time earlier his death.
"I was 1 of the past radical to speech to him. I conscionable instrumentality it arsenic a large grant and a motion from God to retrieve that you ne'er cognize erstwhile your past time connected this Earth is," helium said astatine the time.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) besides backed Trump and his AI-generated station connected Saturday.
“Seeing is believing! A representation is worthy a 1000 words….Glad to study determination is precise affirmative reception and beardown momentum for President Trump to beryllium the adjacent Pope. But I volition beryllium archetypal to admit determination has been immoderate resistance,” Graham wrote successful a post connected X.
“Must support your caput down and plow guardant — can’t fto the naysayers triumph the day," helium continued. "Next week is important arsenic the papal conclave convenes…. More updates to come!”
