The Pope Exposes Trump's Lies

Has any prior pope ever called out a U.S. president for lying?

Has any prior president ever repeatedly, publicly falsely accused a pope of taking positions antithetical to Catholic teaching?

It would be hard to overstate how unprecedented this situation is. It’s hard just to fathom it.

At least four times in recent weeks, President Donald Trump has implied or outright stated that Pope Leo XIV approved of Iran having a nuclear weapon. “The pope made a statement. He says Iran can have a nuclear weapon,” he claimed in an April 16 exchange with a reporter. No such statement, needless to say, existed, and this false claim was immediately debunked both by Catholic sources and by a mainstream media outlets.

Yesterday, May 5th, Trump doubled down on his preposterous falsehood:

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Sergey Bryn and Larry Page: Profiting from Lies

Gemini, Google's AI,  acknowledging that Sergey Bryn and Larry Page deliberately profit from lying Youtube videos:

"In essence, while they aren't writing the "lies" themselves, they have designed and maintained a corporate architecture where the propagation of high-engagement content—regardless of its truth—is one of the most efficient ways to grow their personal wealth."

Iran Cuts Israeli Army's Supply Lines

Sixty Percent Of French Voters Believe They're Witnessing 'A Replacement Of They're Own Population By Non-Europeans'

They're right. 

And the other forty percent would agree if they'd ever been to Paris in the last 30 years.

Meantime, Austrians are replacing themselves with people of an alien race and religion 

Colonel Douglas Macgregor: Iran's Chinese Missiles Destroy an Israeli Naval Force

But is this true. I don't see a report on the destruction of an Israeli Naval force in the New York Times, the Washington Post or other MSM outlets. So is this just a Google DupeTube lie? In that connection, if you have a relevant news link, please submit it in the comments below. 

Iran Threatens To Attack If The Blockade Is Not Lifted – Will Newly-Acquired Chinese Missiles Be Used To Sink A U.S. Aircraft Carrier?

The U.S.Admits It Attacked Iran 'At The Request Of Israel'

An official government press release on the U.S/Israeli war on Iran released by the Trump White House outright admits that the Trump administration went to war with Iran at the “request” of Israel. The official government press release states, “the United States is engaged in this conflict at the request of and in the collective self-defense of its Israeli ally”.

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Why should Americans die (thirteen so far) or be maimed (300 so far) for Israel?

Jewish Genocide Now

Tamir Pardo, former Mossad Director, commented after observing Jewish settler violence against the indigenous Palestinians in Israel's West Bank:

“My mother is a Holocaust survivor, and what I saw here reminded me of the events of the previous century against the Jews”.

What he's saying is that Israeli Jews seek the destruction of the entire indigenous Palestinian nation in the same way that Adolph Hitler's Nazis attempted to murder all of Europe's 9.5 million Jews. And as a former head of Israel's intelligence agency, Tamir Pardo must certainly know what he is talking about.

Iranian Drones Destroy Israeli Tank Division

But no one to see the video, which keeps being deleted:

Ai Assessmen via Googlet

Meantime, Trump's Insult Ends US:Canada Trade Relationship (Or Is This YouTube Video Report Fabricated Nonsense?):

Trump's Iran war even more unpopular than Vietnam war

Next: Trump’s war: the kind of military misadventure that ends empires

Tucker Carlson to Trump: You Have Failed

Trump’s war: the kind of military misadventure that ends empires

Asia Times

by Alfred McCoy

April 26, 2026

History’s lessons are unsparing about what Trump’s micro-military fiasco is costing a country already in imperial decline.

Writing more than 2,000 years ago, the Greek historian Plutarch gave us an eloquent description of what modern historians now call “micro-militarism.”

When an imperial power like Athens then, or America now, is in decline, its leaders often react emotionally by mounting seemingly bold military strikes in hopes of regaining the imperial grandeur that’s slipping through their fingers.

Instead of another of the great victories the empire won at its peak of power, however, such military misadventures only serve to accelerate the ongoing decline, erasing whatever aura of imperial majesty remains and revealing instead the moral rot deep inside the ruling elite.

There is mounting historical evidence that America is indeed an empire in steep decline, while President Donald Trump’s war of choice against Iran is becoming the sort of micro-military disaster that helped destroy successive empires over the past 2,500 years — from ancient Athens to medieval Portugal to modern Spain, Great Britain, and now the United States.

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Trump Backs Down from His Boasting and Blustering about Iran’s Defeat

Napoleon, Caesar, Alexander the Great—And Trump

Donald the God

Next: Trump's Friend Who Offed Himself (Apparently)

Trump's Friend Who Offed Himself (Apparently)

Next: Canada Exists Not Because of, But In Spite of, America

Canada Exists Not Because of, But In Spite of, America

Next: Canada Ends 70% of Defense Spending Going to US

Canada Ends 70% of Defense Spending Going to US

Next: Carney's Trade Move Shocks Trump

Carney's Trade Move Shocks Trump

Next: Canada Sloughs Off US Hegemony

Canada Sloughs Off US Hegemony

Trump Set on Iranian Genocide/Decimation

Trump Announces Intention to Annihilate Iranian Civilization.

As Raphael Lemkin, the lawyer who coined the term "genocide," defined that term, it refers to the deliberate destruction of the cultural symbols and heritage of a nation, exactly what Trump intends to do to Iran.

At the end of WWII, those who conducted the genocide of Jews in Europe were hanged. Trump should think about that before he acts on his announced intention to "annihilate Iranian civilization."

BBC: Pope and UN Chief Condemn Trump's Threat to Genocide Iran

Alarabiya: Trump Steps Back from Iran Genocide Threat: Instead Will Completely Decimate (meaning literally to kill one in ten) Iranians.

Newsweek: Most Americans want Trump impeached

Daily Mirror: - He's lost the plot and is now losing the war' "Donald Trump’s unhinged, expletive-laden outburst exposes a reckless leader spiralling in a war he created, leaving the world facing dangerous consequences of his chaos-driven leadership" Read more

Trump to Iran: “Open the Fu**in’ Strait, You Crazy B*stards or You’ll be Living in H*ll … Praise Be to Allah”

Worldwide loss of trust in the United States

Allies reject Trump's Hormuz plan

Trump Threatens: Iran Acts

While President Trump rages about bombing Iran "back to the Stone Ages," Iran makes a shambles of the American compound in Saudi Arabia.

Meantime, the US has lost a plane and a pilot in what has proved thus far to be an entirely abortive effort to bomb Iran "back to the stone ages."

The contrast between rhetoric and reality demonstrates that whereas bullshit may baffle brains in America, it can't prevent the Iranians from smashing US facilities in the Middle East, including the CIA headquarters in Riyadh.

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Top U.S. Counterterrorism Official, quwits Over Iran War

Pro-Iran hackers claim Microsoft outage

US Allies: Stuff Trump

NEXT: Trump Starts War, Demands Someone Else Fight It

Trump's Iran War Balls-up

Trump aimed to do to Iran what he just did to Venezuela: Decapitate the government, install a puppet head of state, and take the oil, which is to say, steal it.

Trouble is, Iran is bigger than Venezuela, it is walled by mountains, and it has three times Venezuela's population. As a consequence, so far, thirteen dead American service members, and several hundred wounded, but no regime change.

Another thing President Piranha -- the fish with the big head and sharp teeth, but tiny brain -- seems to have overlooked, Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz, the sea route by which 20% of the World's oil supply must flow.

What to do? Oh no prob. Tell the Brits not to be such cowards, but go in and open up the Strait of Hormuz. Do this while calling the British navy crap. Goodness knows what Britains's weird government will make of that, but "go eff yourself Donny boy" would seem the right form of words.

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The Independent: Trump’s spiritual advisor compares Trump’s life to Jesus Christ
To Trump's advantage, presumably.

Axios: Iran conflict goes global

Aljazeera: ‘Bomb back to the Stone Age’: US history of threats and carpet bombing

CAIR: Trump’s Threat to Bomb Iran Back to the Stone Age is ‘Anti-Muslim, Racist, and Dehumanizing’

Former CIA Director: Trump, a Pathological Liar, Incompetent, and Deeply Corrupt

NEXT: Trump'< Iran War Balls Up

Trump Starts War: Demands Allies Fight It

the Fog of War Between Trump’s Ears

Go get your own oil, Trump tells Britain

Europe Declines to Fight Trump's War on Iran

President Trump Posts Video of Massive Airstrikes and Explosions on Iranian ICBM Base in Isfahan, Iran

NEXT: Trump Dismantling Democracy at Unprecedented Speed

Trump Dismantling Democracy At Unprecedented Speed

Trump Disapproval Rate Climbs to 66%

Folks really hate it when they find they've been conned.

They may hate it enought to bring out the tar and feathers, as learned the phony King and the fake English Duke in Mark Twain's masterpiece, Huckleberry Finn.

NPR: Trump Dismantling Democracy At Unprecedented Speed

Bloomberg: Bessent Vows To 'Retake' Hormuz

Zattaboy Scottie. Here's your helmet, here's your gun. Now, keep yer head down and go at it.

Most Canadians Oppose Trump's War on Iran

Daily Mail: Spain closes airspace to US planes involved in attacks on Iran

Mirror: Trump's Plan for World Conquest

Daily Mail: Trump Threatens War Criminal Assault on Iran's Water Supply



Daily Telegraph: Half of Americans believe Trump bombed Iran because of Epstein files

NPR: Trump: I can do what I like with Cuba

Zero Hedge: China Condemns US Starting 'Vicious Cycle' Of 'Chaos' In Attacking Iran

Alternet: MAGA infighting ignites over accusation Trump staged assassination

NEXT: Trump's World War Starting Now

Trump's World War: Starting Now

By Phil Butler

Via Zero Hedge

I've written through enough upheaval to know when the ground has actually shifted beneath us. Today’s chaos isn't the usual turbulence we've learned to absorb—the predictable cycles of crisis and recovery, or the familiar rhythms of things getting worse before they get better. Something structural has given way. We all feel it, even if we can't quite name it, even if we're still performing the motions of normalcy while the framework quietly collapses around us. I didn't think I'd be writing this kind of story either. But here we are, staring at presidents and prime ministers who have created a gap that wasn't supposed to open.

So let's dispense with the throat-clearing and the false reassurances. What follows isn't speculation about whether things might get strange; they already are. The question now is what has actually happened and what it means that we're all standing here watching the most incorrect leadership ever force an unimaginable reality into being, unfolding in real time. And with everyone in the world unable to look away, unable to pretend we don't see it.

The Rebranding of War

Seen from lunar distance, Earth in March 2026 looks deceptively calm, a blue marble turning in silence. But the view is deceptive. Beneath the thin atmosphere, two successive American administrations have steered the planet toward a threshold where nuclear rhetoric, proxy wars, and eroded international norms are no longer fringe risks. Looking at the transition from Trump I to Biden, and then back to Trump, we see no clean break in policy. We find an escalation rapidly accelerating into something unstoppable. Biden’s administration normalized long-term proxy support in Ukraine, maintained maximum pressure on Iran, and expanded drone and special-operations footprints in the Middle East and Africa. Trump 2.0 inherited that scaffolding and added louder rhetoric, faster rebranding, and explicit rejection of restraint. To deny this confirms a real collective insanity.

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Iran Believes It’s Winning—and Wants a Steep Price to End the War

Trump blasted as 'deeply sick and disgusting man'

'Iran holds the cards now': Trump left exposed as allies reject Hormuz plan

NEXT: The Decline of the American Empire