Ex-Trump Adviser Blasts MAGA Leader Over Latest ‘Terrible’ Blunder: ‘They Should Be Fired’ | EUROtoday

President Donald Trump on Monday was slammed by his former senior marketing campaign adviser, David Urban, for sharing a synthetic intelligence-generated picture depicting him as a Christ-like determine. Urban referred to as it “bad politics” as a strategist and plain “offensive” as a Catholic.

He joined “The Arena” as CNN’s senior political commentator and, after New York Times journalist Lulu Garcia-Navarro stated that the Catholic Church has been experiencing a surge in converts, decried Trump’s determination to color himself as Jesus-like and to publicly criticize the pope.

“I was going to say, look, as a Catholic, Christian, altar boy, right, all of those things growing up as a kid, it’s offensive,” Urban advised host Kasie Hunt. “It’s patently offensive. Look, do I agree with everything the pope says? No. On politics, policy, not — it’s just bad politics.”

He continued, “You know, politics is about addition, not subtraction, right? So one plus one. We don’t need to lose people. As Lulu points out, the Catholic Church is growing by leaps and bounds, primarily by young people right now.”

Urban claimed that the church has seen a surge in new members, noting that it was unwise for Trump to “go out of his way to alienate those young voters” by criticizing “the first American pope ever,” who “wears a Cubbies hat,” and is “nice to kids” and “eats hot dogs.”

Pope Leo XIV is from Chicago, however a supporter of the White Sox — and never the Cubs.

The pope has been calling for peace after Trump launched the conflict in Iran, which has already price no less than 13 U.S. army service members and greater than 2,000 Iranians their lives. Trump wrote Sunday on social media that Pope Leo is “WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy.”

Urban went on to assert that a big swath of American Catholics vote in step with the pope and that it isn’t stunning for the pontiff to sentence the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran, stating that this ethos of “peace, love and understanding” is inherently basic to his place.

“Like, that’s his job,” Urban advised Hunt. “That’s his No. 1 job description. It’s like, ‘I’m the guy who’s supposed to say: turn the other cheek.’ That is his role in the world. You don’t have to agree with him on everything, but that’s his job.”

He continued, “He’s the most dogmatic person in the planet on those things. And so, for the president to take a poke at him, I don’t know who said, ‘This is a good idea,’ or who the person is that generated that AI and put it in front of him, but they should be fired. Terrible!”

Urban served as a Trump adviser throughout all of his presidential campaigns. He has since ceaselessly criticized Trump’s choices and social media antics, and predicted final yr that Trump would stay an influential determine in U.S. politics lengthy after his present time period is up.

Urban stated that the supposedly “great moment” of Trump’s McDonald’s supply stunt earlier that afternoon was tainted by his controversial submit the night time prior, and rued that the president had unwittingly modified the dialog.

“We’re talking about this, instead,” he stated. “We can’t — he’s stepping on his own message.”