Catholic Cardinal Slams Trump Admin's 'Sickening' Social Media Posts About Iran War on 60 Minutes
Source: MEDIAite
Apr 12th, 2026, 8:16 pm
Catholic Cardinal Blase Cupich lambasted President Donald Trump’s administration for posting “sickening” social media content about the Iran war during an interview on 60 Minutes on Sunday. The long-running CBS show interviewed Cupich and two other high-ranking American Catholics — Cardinal Joseph Tubin and Cardinal Robert McElroy — days after Pope Leo XIV ramped up his criticism of the war.
Cupich told correspondent Norah O’Donnell he has been appalled by the White House’s “gamification” of the war on social media, where it combines military clips with movie and TV scenes; 60 Minutes highlighted a March X post that included Tom Cruise in “Top Gun: Maverick” and Mel Gibson from “Braveheart,” among other pop culture references. You can see that post below.
“We’re dehumanizing the victims of war by turning the suffering of people and the killing of children and our own soldiers into entertainment,” Cupich said. O’Donnell added he had called it “sickening” previously, and Cupich reiterated it for the CBS audience.
“It is sickening. To splice together movie cuts with actual bombing and targeting of people for the purposes of entertainment is sickening,” he said. “This is not who we are. We’re better than this.” Cupich is based in Chicago, where Pope Leo — the first American-born pontiff — is from.
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