Overview
- John Oliver devoted his latest Last Week Tonight segment to Trump's online attacks on Pope Leo XIV, calling the 'weak on crime' insult ineffective.
- Oliver traced the dispute to the Pope's criticism of the Iran war, which preceded Trump's Truth Social post and a wave of media scrutiny.
- He highlighted an AI-generated image Trump shared that portrayed him in a Christ-like pose and played Trump's defense that he thought it showed him as a doctor.
- The show aired a news clip of Trump claiming the Pope said Iran could have a nuclear weapon, which reporters in the clip corrected as false.
- Oliver closed by saying Trump is on a run of losing fights that undercut his aura of invincibility.