{"id":616158,"date":"2026-04-20T08:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T08:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/616158\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T08:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T08:40:09","slug":"john-oliver-mocks-trump-for-insulting-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/616158\/","title":{"rendered":"John Oliver Mocks Trump for Insulting Pope"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAfter a couple weeks off, John Oliver returned with a new episode of Last Week Tonight<\/a> on Sunday, mocking Donald Trump<\/a> for attacking Pope Leo XIV<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tSeveral days ago, the Pope weighed in on the Iran war, saying that \u201cwhoever is a disciple of Christ, the Prince of Peace, never stands on the side of those who yesterday wielded the sword and today drop bombs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNoted Oliver: \u201cIt was one of a series of statements that made Trump lose his shit.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Last Week Tonight host then pointed to a lengthy post that Trump made on Truth Social that began with the statement that the Pope is \u201cweak on crime.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWhich, Oliver said, \u201cin terms of insults, just doesn\u2019t work. It\u2019s like saying this possum is weak on Balkan geography: OK, but who gives a shit? It\u2019s not a possum\u2019s job to correctly place Bosnia and Herzegovina on a map. Her job is to eat garbage, hang upside down and, by this evidence, fuck,\u201d he joked, showing a photo of possums caring for multiple offspring.<\/p>\n

\n\tOliver then showed the image that Trump posted depicting him as a Christ-like figure, wearing a tunic with orbs of light coming out of his hands as if to heal someone. The image \u201cunderstandably generated fierce backlash and his excuse was pretty weak,\u201d Oliver said, showing a video of Trump explaining that \u201cI thought it was me as a doctor.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tResponded Oliver: \u201cOh, that makes sense, a doctor. You know how when you go to the doctor and you get checked in by a nurse and a few bald eagles, and then the doctor comes in and he\u2019s wearing an ancient tunic and says, \u2018We\u2019re gonna get you started on antibiotics and on orbs of light born from my very skin. Take them with food.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Thursday, the president was asked about his feud with the Pope. Oliver showed a news clip in which Trump replied: \u201cI\u2019m not fighting with him. The Pope made a statement. He says Iran can have a nuclear weapon. I say Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe reporter then fact-checked Trump, saying: \u201cPope Leo has never said Iran should have a nuclear weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTrump was then asked if he\u2019d be willing to meet with the Pope, and he replied he didn\u2019t think that a meeting was necessary.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYeah, I don\u2019t really think it\u2019s necessary either,\u201d Oliver said on his HBO<\/a> show. \u201cThis battle of words has not gone well for Trump. Plus, I don\u2019t think they\u2019d see eye to eye on much other than maybe whether it\u2019s a good idea to cover your workplace in more gold shit than seems physically possible,\u201d he joked, comparing Trump\u2019s infamous gaudy decorating taste and the Vatican\u2019s own aesthetic. \u201cThe point is, Trump seems to be on an epic run of picking losing fights, and whatever air of invincibility he had last year is fading fast, all of which is a pretty good reminder that one day he is gonna be gone.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a couple weeks off, John Oliver returned with a new episode of Last Week Tonight on Sunday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1376,5862,43,193806,11590,11591,44,76712,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-616158","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-hbo","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-john-oliiver","12":"tag-last-week-tonight","13":"tag-last-week-tonight-with-john-oliver","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-pope-leo-xiv","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}