Trump Insulted Catholics
May 9, 2025 – Opinion by Citrus Springs resident Johnny Betters
Trump’s AI image as the Pope who just passed is insulting to Catholics and Christianity itself. He says Christmas will be tight on Americans and their kids will get only two dolls instead of 30. He doubles down on taking Greenland and Canada by force. He claims it’s national security interest, but what about Cuba, 90 miles away and a missile could hit the U.S. in five minutes? Russia has nine medium-range missile installations in Cuba, with a range that could hit any city in the U.S., and warships and submarines in Cuba’s harbor. This, it would seem to any rational person, is a national security threat, but Trump wouldn’t want to upset Putin because he’s scared of him. Just like the Ukraine deal, which benefits Russia. Trump is a weak bully who wants to take over weaker countries, but won’t stand up to Putin.
Now let’s look at domestic issues. Trump lies about gas and grocery prices, defends tariffs. Trump tried to argue that prices on gas and groceries are falling even though the numbers disprove those claims. He also encouraged Americans to buy fewer dolls and pencils as a way to deal with rising costs due to his tariff policies. “Donny Two Dolls.” As of Sunday, the current average price for a gallon of regular gas is $3.17, and no state has an average gas price of $1.98. In fact, GasBuddy, a company that tracks gas prices at more than 150,000 gas stations nationwide, could find no gas station in the country selling gas at that price during the month of April. Prices are also likely to rise on all sorts of imported goods when Trump’s broad tariffs go into effect, which has the president becoming an unlikely opponent of mass consumption as he struggles to defend the fallout of punishing tariffs.
It’s ironic these same Republicans were complaining about food and gas prices when Biden was president, but they’re OK with it now?