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The Late Show spoofed Pope Leo XIV‘s “feud” with the Trump administration Thursday night with a parody of Kendrick Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us,” in which the “Pontiff” takes aim at the White House, saying, “They not pious.”
“You got J.D. [Vance], I got J.C., though,” the show’s Leo raps in a Chicago accent. “You keep Rubio, I ride around with the holy trio/I’m up in the Vatican, You’re still in denial/I’m the Holy See … you’re the holy senile.” And if that didn’t slam Trump enough, the faux-pe went there the same way Lamar did with Drake on “Not Like Us” with a serious allegation: “How many mentions of you in the Epstein files?/Certified bestie with that certified pedophile.”
The clip shows “senile” Trump dancing with a sword, yukking it up with Jeffrey Epstein, and sleeping. “Seems like it’s past time you retired,” Kendrick Leo raps. “Called Jesus a doctor, and it’s probably Alzheimer’s,” he says over a shot of Trump’s creepy, A.I.-generated Jesus image. It ends with the Pope declaring, “They not pious” over and over as the newly Catholic Vance crosses himself and Trump holds a Bible, ending with Trump saying, “We’re honoring Jesus Christ,” next to a person in a cartoonish Easter Bunny costume.
