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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Graham Snowdon

Holier than thou: inside the 24 April Guardian Weekly

Guardian Weekly magazine cover featuring the Pope holding a red tie similar to that regularly worn by Donald Trump.
The cover of the 24 April edition of the Guardian Weekly magazine. Illustration: Simone Risoluti/Vatican Media/Getty/Guardian Design

The Trump administration’s efforts to validate their incoherent war on Iran with some sort of Christian moral authority have led to a few, shall we say, interesting moments recently.

After bizarrely berating Pope Leo XIV as “WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy”, Donald Trump posted (and later deleted) a meme of himself as a Christ-like figure healing the sick. The self-styled “secretary of war” Pete Hegseth then confused what he evidently thought was a biblical passage with a bastardised version of a speech from the Quentin Tarantino movie Pulp Fiction.

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