All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXI

[robkelk]

Let's talk about something that was definitely not on my bingo card this year: Trump seems to want to be elected as Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.  Okay, so at first Reuters posted that Trump jokes that he'd like to be the next pope.  But like a lot of Trump's "jokes", they're really just a trial balloon for his real desires.  At least one US Senator endorsed Trump for Pope.  Like 5 days later, the official White House account posted an AI-generated photo of Trump dressed as the pope.

Now, I myself dressed as the Bishop of Rome for a couple of Halloweens, and that was all in the spirit of good fun.  But context is everything, and I don't think this current thing is in the spirit of merriment.

Put aside all of the heretical and blasphemous implications for a second, and look just at the political implications: the head of state of one nation has dressed himself in the ceremonial garb of another head of state.  The implications are pretty damn clear, a universal element in human history — ever since Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt were united, the crown of the pharaohs combined the shape of both of the previous hats.  Trump is acting as a pretender to the throne of Saint Peter.

Maybe it's a joke, sure.  But he wants it.  He wants all the power.

And we have a page that is -- on purpose and by design -- about him but not fawningly sycophantic toward him.

He's already ignoring the Fifth Amendment ("... nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law ...") and the Fourteenth Amendment ("... nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law ..."). We can't count on the First Amendment to protect us. Will we have to move the wiki out of the USA in order to protect it?