JD Vance schooled on MS NOW over pope lecture: 'That's what he's talking about, buddy'

JD Vance’s decision to add to Donald Trump’s attacks against Pope Leo XIV earned him a scolding on MS NOW on Tuesday morning as “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough called him out for lecturing the Catholic leader on “morality.”

Adding to the Trump administration’s all-out attack on arguably the world’s most powerful religious leader, Vance told Fox News, “I certainly think that in some cases, it would be best for the Vatican to stick to matters of morality, to stick to matters of what’s going on with the Catholic church, and let the president of the United States stick to dictating American public policy.”

After sharing the clip, which Scarborough introduced by sarcastically calling it “delightful,” he condescendingly explained to the vice president, “That's exactly what he's talking about, buddy. Come on, pal, he's talking about matters of morality.”

“Pope after pope after pope has been critical of war,” he elaborated. “He's been critical when people have been oppressed, like people have been oppressed in the United States because of mass deportation policies. I don't know a pope, –– I don't know, I mean, I got criticized when on certain votes I took when I was in congress by the Catholic bishops, you know, they sent out a scorecard and everything. And, you know, that's just what they've been doing forever.”

“And for you to think, well, first of all, for the president, think he can portray himself as Jesus and get away with that, even with the biggest suck ups –– I mean, it's one thing, but to say, stick to matters of morality, that's exactly what the pope is doing.”

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