A Catholic priest in the tiny Irish town of Ballycroy decided that his Sunday sermon was the perfect time to put in a special request with the Almighty. Not for peace. Not for the sick. Not for the poor. Nope — Father Anonymous over here stood at his pulpit and prayed, out loud, in front of his entire congregation: “We pray for Donald Trump, that the Lord will take him.”
That’s right, folks. A man of the cloth — a guy whose entire job description is “love thy neighbor” — used the altar of God to ask for a sitting president’s death. And his parishioners? They giggled. Nervous little laughs rippled through the pews like they’d just heard a mildly inappropriate joke at a dinner party. Welcome to the modern Catholic Church in Western Europe, where the Eucharist comes with a side of political assassination prayers.
Now, the priest — whose name nobody in the Irish media seems eager to publish, funny how that works — tried to clean it up afterward with some mumbled nonsense about how he meant “take away his pain.” Sure, Father. “May the Lord take him” is what you say about your 97-year-old uncle on a ventilator, not the leader of the free world. We weren’t born yesterday. Neither was your congregation, which is why they laughed — they knew exactly what you meant.
The whole thing was captured on video and posted to TikTok, because of course it was. Within hours it had ripped across every social media platform on earth. Instagram. Facebook. X. The clip is barely 30 seconds long, but it tells you everything you need to know about how deep Trump Derangement Syndrome has burrowed into institutions that are supposed to be above politics.
We’re talking about a Catholic Mass here. The most sacred ritual in Christianity. The part where you’re supposed to be communing with God, receiving the body and blood of Christ, and reflecting on your sins. And this joker turned it into an open mic night at the “I Hate Trump” comedy club.
The context makes it even worse. Father Funny Guy was supposedly preaching about the Iran situation, calling the conflict “outrageous” and demanding peace. Fine — priests are allowed to have opinions about war. But then he just casually slipped in a death prayer for the American president like he was adding an item to his grocery list. “Peace in the Middle East, amen. Oh, and Lord? While you’re at it, go ahead and whack Trump. Thanks, Big Guy.”
Here’s what really gets us. If a Baptist preacher in Alabama had stood up and prayed for Joe Biden’s death two years ago, every newsroom from New York to London would have run it as the lead story for a week. CNN would have assembled a panel of twelve “experts” to discuss the dangerous rise of Christian nationalism. The FBI would have opened a file. The Southern Poverty Law Center would have added the entire congregation to a hate group list.
But an Irish priest prays for Trump to die and the international media covers it like a quirky human interest story. “Tee-hee, look at the cheeky padre!” Half the outlets couldn’t even be bothered to identify the guy by name.
This is what TDS looks like when it infects the clergy. It’s not enough to protest in the streets or post unhinged rants on social media. Now they’re bringing it into the sanctuary. The one place that’s supposed to be set apart from the ugliness of the world — and this priest dragged politics right up to the communion rail.
And the congregation laughing? That’s the part that should bother you most. Not one person stood up and said, “Father, that’s not appropriate.” Not one person walked out. They just chuckled and moved on to the next hymn. That tells you the rot isn’t just in the pulpit — it’s in the pews.
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: the radical Left has no boundaries. There is no institution they won’t politicize, no tradition they won’t weaponize, no sacred space they won’t desecrate if it means scoring a point against Donald Trump. Your kids’ schools. Your doctor’s office. Your workplace. And now, apparently, your church.
The good news? The video went so viral that millions of people got to see exactly what performative, virtue-signaling clergy looks like. And judging by the comments section, most of them weren’t laughing with Father TDS — they were laughing at him.
Maybe next Sunday he can try praying for something useful. Like the wisdom to keep his political opinions out of the homily. But we won’t hold our breath.
