The Daily Blast: Trump’s Rage at Pope Backfires as Poll Reveals He’s Losing Fight Badly

The Daily Blast: Trump’s Rage at Pope Backfires as Poll Reveals He’s Losing Fight Badly

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May 7, 2026 · 22 min

About this episode

The episode discusses Donald Trump's backlash against Pope Leo's criticism of the Iran war and the implications of recent polling data.

Donald Trump has been raging at Pope Leo’s criticism of the Iran war for weeks, and he just unleashed his most vile attack yet. Trump accused the Pope of “endangering a lot of Catholics” by advocating for peace. Yet a new Washington Post poll finds that Trump is losing this battle very badly. Large majorities react negatively to Trump’s claims about the Pope, and even more strikingly, big majorities approve of the Pope’s message of peace, even though Trump is bombarding America with relentless lies and propaganda about both the Pope and the war. We talked to scholar-of-religion Sarah Posner, who writes for Talking Points Memo and hosts the Reign of Error podcast. We discuss why this polling is encouraging in non-obvious ways, why there’s a schism between white Evangelicals and Catholics over Trump, how MAGA encourages Trump to imagine himself fighting a spiritual war against the Pope, and why that’s a political disaster for him. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Guest: Sarah Posner

Topics covered

  • Trump vs Pope
  • Iran war
  • polling
  • religion
  • Evangelicals vs Catholics
  • political discourse

Keywords

  • Trump
  • Pope
  • poll
  • Iran war
  • Evangelicals
  • Catholics
  • Sarah Posner
  • politics
  • religion

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Reign of Error

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