Donald Trump's weird week when he couldn't win in Iran so he picked a fight with God

Donald Trump's weird week when he couldn't win in Iran so he picked a fight with GodTrump has been stumbling from one war in Iran to a war of words with the Pope - and last night he gave an indication of which fight he's going to pick nextCommentsNewsopinionMikey Smith Deputy Political Editor07:00, 18 Apr 2026Updated 07:40, 18 Apr 2026View 3 ImagesTrump has been stumbling from an almighty battle to a battle with the almighty(Image: Getty Images)If there's one person in Donald Trump administration who probably deserves a bit of sympathy, it's Susie Wiles.‌As the first female White House chief of staff, she's theoretically at least in charge of keeping the President relatively on task, on message and on the straight and narrow. In November, she led a push for Trump to stick to talking up his economic achievements in every available public moment from then to this November's midterm elections.‌Since then her project has been foiled first by Jeffrey Epstein, then by Venezuela, then Epstein again. And just when he'd been booked to do a few speeches - or 'roundtables' in smaller hotel conference rooms, presumably because filling arenas is not something he can do these days - he decided it was time to wage a holy war in Iran. After all of this, you'd think she'd have seen it all. But even Wiles didn't expect him to pick a fight with the Pope in the middle of the night.‌We learned this week that Wiles, who is undergoing treatment for breast cancer, has a giant screen in her office devoted to monitoring Trump's Truth Social feed. Trump's tendency to sit up in bed late into the night, hammering out posts and reposts on his own social network has become more frequent and more erratic. Even so, it's rare for Trump to back off - and reportedly just one person who can convince him to do so. So on Tuesday, reportedly following an intervention by the Chief herself, Trump deleted a Truth Social post for...