“Only fake news can come out, so I just heard about it, and I said, ‘How did they come up with that?'” Trump complained on Truth Social, dismissing the blasphemy allegations. “It’s supposed to be that I’m making people better.”“And I make people better. I make people a lot better,” claimed the peacemaker-turned-bomber-turned-healer, even as he removed an image of a Jesus-like figure casting ethereal light over a patient’s head as translucent figures look down from the heavens.“Normally I don’t like to do this, but I didn’t want anyone to be confused,” he wrote, only to post another image a few hours later showing Jesus embracing him.“Radical leftist lunatics might not like it, but I think it’s pretty cool!!!” Trump praised X’s new image, which shows him in front of a microphone with the arms of Jesus wrapped around him and an American flag in the background.Trump then took aim at Pope Leo, the first American-born Pope, for his criticism of the Iran war, calling him “weak on crime” and “terrible at foreign policy.”“I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s OK for Iran to have nuclear weapons. I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s terrible that the US invaded Venezuela,” Trump wrote, claiming that this was the reason Leo was chosen as the first American-born Pope.Rather than back down, Leo hit back, saying that the “illusion of omnipotence” is fueling the US-Israel war in Iran, now in its eighth week.“Enough of the idolatry of self and wealth!” He said during a mass at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. “Enough of displays of power! Enough of war! True strength is shown in the service of life.”“Stop pandering to the radical left, and focus on being a great Pope, not a politician,” the POTUS warned, escalating the unholy war of words while striking another blow at the pontiff.Saying he has “no fear of the Trump administration,” Leo condemned “those who manipulate religion and the name of God for their military, economic and political gain.”Meanwhile, even though Trump vowed to keep the US blockade of Iranian ports “in full force” following the opening of the Strait of Hormuz, NBC suggested Trump was trying to avoid war with Iran.One major reason: the upcoming state visit of King Charles III in late April. In fact, according to NBC, Trump is talking about this trip as yet another reason to justify his controversial ballroom, whose “overground” construction has been halted by an “out of control Trump hating judge” at the behest of “a woman walking her dog.”“The water can go 3 to 4 inches above his shoes. It’s not a good feeling,” Trump told reporters a few weeks ago, alluding to the potential humiliation of the British monarch stepping on the wet grass on the South Lawn rather than a marble floor. “King Charles, who is a great man, we don’t want him sitting in a pond of water.”Back on terra firma, the great doctor touted the virtues of diet soda to help prevent cancer, prompting some real doctors to remind the public that Trump’s favorite beverage will do nothing to prevent cancer.Mehmet Oz, a cardiothoracic surgeon and television personality who now leads the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, shrugged off Don Jr.’s boss’s prescription without objection. podcast.Oz told the president’s eldest son, “Your father argues that diet soda is good for him because it kills grass – if it is put on grass – so, therefore, it should kill cancer cells inside the body.”The New York Times suggested that Trump’s erratic behavior and sometimes profane statements, as well as his “An entire civilization will die tonight” threat to wipe Iran off the map, “have given many people the image of a deranged autocratic ruler obsessed with power”.While the White House claims POTUS is sharp and keeps his opponents on edge, House Democrats introduced legislation that would create a commission to assess whether Trump is ineligible to serve and should be removed under the 25th Amendment — with little chance of success.Meanwhile, Trump has repeatedly promised to pardon his top aides before leaving office, according to the Wall Street Journal’s Fly on the Wall account.“I would pardon anyone who came within 200 feet of the Oval,” Trump said laughing at a recent meeting. As the President repeated this line, the range appears to have widened from within 10 feet last year.In a conversation with advisers last year in the dining room next to the Oval Office, Trump said he would host a news conference and announce mass pardons before leaving office, according to the Journal.Trump has used the unconditional power of pardon offered by the presidency with great abandon, distributing nearly 1,600 grants so far in his second term. Many have reached out to colleagues and donors, or those who hired them, after a social pull or a round of golf.It may be all fun and games for Trump, but it is no laughing matter for the world hoping for a respite from his bizarre rule.(By arrangement with The American Bazaar, www.americanbazaaronline.com)