Donald Trump and Pope Leo may put their pants on the same way but at that point all resemblance ends. Pope Leo is wildly popular and that’s got to gall the wildly unpopular 47. Leo enjoys the respect of his peers whereas Trump has no peers. Most bullies don’t. It’s almost like the two men are not the same species, even.
Pope Leo never blasphemes. It’s not in him. Pope Donald, on the other hand, is a natural blasphemer, i.e., someone who basically respects no one and nothing — not even himself — or he wouldn’t show himself off to such bad advantage.
Leo executes the tasks of the job he was selected to do with the kind of effortlessness that comes to the uber competent. Trump mumbles and fumbles his way through each new gaffe, on a daily basis.
History will remember the Pope Leo that we see every day; smiling, confident, doing the job with great aplomb. History will also remember 47, every bumbling, fumbling, childish moment of his interminable reign.
Both men are Americans and fate has smiled on both of them. But the way they use their respective posts could not be more different.
There’s such an irrefutable and real world difference between the actual Pope and the delusional 47 Dope.