Horsham: 18th April, 2026

It’s been quite a week. You have to ask yourself, what has happened to America.

A couple of weeks ago, I noted that the President of the United States had been compared to Christ by a high profile MAGA faith advisor. He seems to have taken the comparison on board, circulating a post this week on Truth Social, showing himself as Jesus. In response to uproar amongst potential voters he withdrew the post about 24 hours later, later claiming that it depicted him not as Christ, but as a doctor.

Apparently not content with the furore caused by his latest offensive post, he then took to posting ridiculous comments about Pope Leo, including the accusation the he is ‘weak on crime’.

During the same week when the US Secretary of Defence encouraged people to pray with him during a high profile prayer meeting at the Pentagon. Claiming to be reading from ‘Cesar 25:17’ (whatever that was supposed to mean)  he then read a prayer which was essentially a quote from the Tarrantino film Pulp Fiction, which includes a sentence from Ezekiel 25:17.

All this follows the week in which Trump set out his negotiating position in his war of choice with Iran, by sending another message on Truth Social, vowing to destroy the entire Iranian civilisation.

What on earth has happened to America.

Richard Jackson: Horsham,West Sussex