{"id":11091,"date":"2025-05-04T12:50:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T19:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=11091"},"modified":"2025-05-04T16:41:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T23:41:51","slug":"the-most-offensive-thing-ive-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2025\/05\/04\/the-most-offensive-thing-ive-seen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Offensive Thing I&#8217;ve Seen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis passed away 2 weeks ago. Would it be strange and deeply offensive if I put on a pope hat, robes, and a cross around my neck and posted a photo here? Well, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WhiteHouse\/status\/1918502592335724809\">that is what Donald Trump did<\/a>. I am loathe to repost it but proof of this offense needed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Trump-pope.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11092\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Trump-pope-120x104.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"73\" height=\"63\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Trump-pope-120x104.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Trump-pope-300x261.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Trump-pope-600x522.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Trump-pope-768x668.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Trump-pope-50x44.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Trump-pope.jpg 1071w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 73px) 100vw, 73px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What if a week after the pope passed away, I said I thought I should be the next pope? Would that be strange and offensive? <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/atrupar\/status\/1917288966908149820\">That&#8217;s what Donald Trump did.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is disturbing in the extreme that anyone would seriously support such a notion. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LindseyGrahamSC\/status\/1917331380297478530\">That is what the &#8220;Honorable&#8221; Republican senator from South Carolina did<\/a> with his sycophantic remarks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11095\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Lindsey-Trump-support-120x105.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"69\" height=\"60\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Lindsey-Trump-support-120x105.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Lindsey-Trump-support-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Lindsey-Trump-support-600x524.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Lindsey-Trump-support-768x671.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Lindsey-Trump-support-50x44.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Lindsey-Trump-support.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 69px) 100vw, 69px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis passed away 2 weeks ago. Would it be strange and deeply offensive if I put on a pope hat, robes, and a cross around my neck and posted a photo here? Well, that is what Donald Trump did. I am loathe to repost it but proof of this offense needed. What if a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11091"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11096,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11091\/revisions\/11096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}