The White House posted this picture in May 2025.Image: Instagram
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The dispute with the Pope shows that crazy Donald Trump has become a danger to the entire world.
April 16, 2026, 8:06 p.mApril 16, 2026, 8:06 p.m
Typically, someone who imagines themselves to be Napoleon or Jesus Christ ends up in a padded cell in a mental institution. Not so in the superpower USA. There, an obviously crazy person is elected president and thus the most powerful man in the world. This can’t go well, and it doesn’t work well either. That’s why the urgent question arises: How can you get rid of it?
The fact that Trump no longer has all his cups in the cup became clear with his argument with the Pope. Certainly, during his first term in office, 22 psychiatrists warned that his mental state was not beyond all doubt. In his second term in office, more voices were added, such as that of social journalist Michael Wolff, who has written several books about Trump and analyzes his brain twice a week on a podcast with the Daily Beast news portal.
That was too much of a bad thing: Trump as Jesus.Image: www.imago-images.de
So far, Wolff and others have been noted with amusement but not taken seriously. After the president portrayed himself as Jesus in memes, things are changing. The Mad King thesis is now even being discussed in the venerable New York Times. Columnist Jamelle Bouie states unequivocally: “This man no longer has himself under control. He is not a president who can control the situation around him.”
The president’s once most loyal allies – figures like Marjorie Taylor Green, Tucker Carlson and even Alex Jones – are now calling for him to be removed from the White House using the 25th Amendment to the Constitution. This article makes it possible to remove a president from power if he is no longer able to carry out his duties. Democratic MPs like Jamie Raskin are also calling for this article to be applied. However, this will remain a gray theory. In political practice, this demand has no chance. The loyalty of the majority of the Grand Old Party to their leader is still too strong.
The dispute with the Pope shows that the application of this article would be more than justified, because this dispute can no longer be explained rationally. Trump will definitely lose him, because Leo XIV is not only far more popular than the president, he also has morals and politics on his side. Ross Douthat, a conservative and religious man, also states in the New York Times: “This time we have more than one of the usual Trumpian abnormalities. This is a matter of desecration and sacrilege.”
Politically, this dispute is likely to have catastrophic consequences for the president. More than half of the roughly 20 million Catholics in the United States voted for him, largely because he made good on his promise to make abortion illegal again. Now, however, Trump has to fear that many people will turn away from him again. Traditionally, the majority of American Catholics have voted for the Democrats.
No more friends: Giorgia Meloni and Donald Trump.Image: keystone
With completely idiotic statements like “The Pope is trivializing crime,” Trump is not only alienating American Catholics, but once again also his foreign allies. Giorgia Meloni publicly criticized him for this. The Italian Prime Minister was previously considered a close confidant of the US President. His stupid and primitive criticism of the Pope has now enabled her to break with him.
Meloni may have acted less out of religious outrage than out of political calculation. Trump is also at the bottom of the right-wing populists in Europe. Even the AfD is turning away from him, and Viktor Orban’s crushing defeat in Hungary has shown that an election recommendation from the White House has become like a kiss of death.
Trump is not only taking on the Pope, but once again also with Jerome Powell, the outgoing President of the US Federal Reserve. He still wants to fire him and thus prevent him from remaining on the Fed’s board of directors even after his resignation. The first attempt to impeach Powell for overspending on the renovation of the Fed headquarters building in Washington failed miserably.
Nevertheless, Trump is not giving up and has appointed Jeanine Pirro, the district attorney for the District of Columbia, to pursue the criminal case against Powell. Pirro is also one of the many Fox News figures that Trump has brought into his administration.
Must impeach the Fed President: Jeanine Pirro.Image: keystone
With his campaign of revenge against the Fed President – who has steadfastly refused to lower interest rates – Trump is not only offending traditional Republicans. He also prevents Kevin Warsh, Powell’s designated successor, from being confirmed by the Senate.
Trump gambled away so brutally in the Iran war that the joke is now circulating in Washington that the White House is now trying to shift the discussion to the Epstein Files in order to distract from the debacle in the Persian Gulf. “This time Trump has maneuvered himself into a dead end from which he cannot find a way out,” states Jonathan Lemire in the “Atlantic,” and Jamelle Bouie adds in the “New York Times”: “He lacks the ability and patience to find a solution to the catastrophe he has caused himself.”
This could have serious consequences for Trump and his family. Republicans are widely expected to lose the November midterm elections and Democrats will control the House of Representatives and possibly the Senate. This means that Trump will once again have to endure a series of unpleasant investigations into his corrupt behavior, and yes, a third impeachment trial is certainly possible. Even if this ends in an acquittal again, it means that the president will definitely become a lame duck politically.
The Iran war poses major challenges for the USA and the world. The Mad King in the White House doesn’t want to know anything about it. While his hapless deputy JD Vance negotiated with the Iranians in Islamabad over the weekend, the president watched a mock battle with his secretary of state and security adviser Marco Rubio. You can’t have much more contempt for the important problems.
Getting bigger: Trump’s planned triumphal arch.Image: keystone
Instead of solving the problems at hand, Trump is primarily devoting himself to his vanity projects. The planned ballroom is becoming more and more expensive, and the triumphal arch to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is becoming larger and larger. This arch has now taken on three times the originally planned dimensions. It will no longer be 24 meters high, but 76 meters high. Even the architect who once sold Trump on this idea shakes his head. “Now the triumphal arch is simply too big,” he explains to the New York Times.