Trump could also be ‘jealous’ of Pope Leo’s approval rankings as his assist ‘drops down into the Dead Sea’, polling guru says | EUROtoday

CNN’s resident polling skilled has advised that Donald Trump is “jealous” of Pope Leo XIV’s hovering approval score because the president continues his feud with the chief of the Catholic Church.

On the cable channel’s News Central program Monday, chief knowledge analyst Harry Enten offered polling knowledge from March displaying that Trump is almost 50 factors much less well-liked than the Pope among the many American public.

“You know, maybe President Trump is jealous of Pope Leo XIV, because it is a blowout. It is a blowout!” Enten stated in his trademark excitable type.

He pointed to an NBC News ballot final month displaying that the Pope had +34 level internet favorability score with Americans, in comparison with Trump’s -12.

“It’s not even close,” stated Enten. “Pope Leo XIV absolutely crushing President Trump… and I will note that Pope Leo was the most popular person tested by NBC News.

“I imagine the president is making a humongous mistake going after the most well-liked man in America.”

It comes amid an escalating spat between Trump and the supreme pontiff and after Trump’s threat to annihilate the “complete civilization” of Iran, which Pope Leo branded “actually unacceptable”.

In a late-night Truth Social tirade Sunday, Trump branded the Catholic leader “WEAK” on crime and “horrible” on foreign policy, demanding he “get his act collectively” and “cease catering to the Radical Left.”

But he drew fury from conservative Christians for also posting an apparently AI-generated picture which appeared to depict himself as Jesus healing the sick.

Trump later deleted the post, claiming he thought it merely showed him as “a health care provider, making individuals higher.”

Some reports have even claimed that U.S. officials threatened the Vatican with military force during a tense meeting in January.

In his segment Monday, Harry Enten noted that Trump had beaten Kamala Harris by 20 points among American Catholics in the November 2024 presidential election, according to a CNN exit poll.

Yet by late March, a Fox News poll put him on -4 points among the same group.

“President Trump crushed, crushed Kamala Harris,” Enten said. “But [now,] down he goes, down he goes, into the Dead Sea…

“The president has been struggling with Catholics. And I must say, in my expert opinion, I’m not quite sure that going after the Pope is the way to recover with Catholics.”

He added that Pope Leo’s views on the Iran struggle had been “emblematic of Catholics in America”, citing a Fox News ballot displaying they had been towards U.S. navy motion in Iran by 10 factors and towards Trump’s conduct in direction of Iran by 20 factors.

“The bottom line is this,” Enten stated. “The Pope is emblematic of Catholics here in the United States. The Pope is far more popular with the American public than Trump is here in the United States…

“[He’s] shedding plenty of floor, and this ain’t gonna assist.”