First American Pope ~ GEN Z Now Stepping Up !

Can our first American Pope, Pope Leo XIV and Donald Trump align to mediate peace on the world scene? Will Trump push other deals through on tariffs with other countries, as he just did with the U.K.? Left criticism of Donald Trump falls apart again. Trump delivered with a significant trade deal with the U.K. European Union's future in jeopardy. Trump is a true peacemaker. He should quickly find common ground with the Pope Leo. Separately, as the world changes, has law enforcement changed? We must return to the respect deserving of our law enforcement patriots. To Progressives we say, "If you're so smart, how come these last 10 years we regressed, not progressed?"

WMXI Episode 164: First American Pope ~ GEN Z Now Stepping Up !

Originally Aired on WMXI Radio on Friday, May 9, 2025

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First American Pope ~ GEN Z Now Stepping Up !

Bianca De La Garza: [00:00:00] Hi everybody. I'm Bianca Del La Garza and you have to check out Gene Valentino's GrassRoots TruthCast podcast. I was a guest. He has the best guess. Always check him out.

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Ted Tibbett: 7, 16, 60 minutes after seven. Michael, if you keep the faith each week, Friday at seven 15 comes around sooner or later. 

Michael Pol: Yeah, it does, and the studio crowd is certainly excited that we have our friend Gene Valentino. Good morning, gene. 

Gene Valentino: Good morning, Michael and Ted. Hello everybody. 

Michael Pol: Uh, look, it wouldn't be right since, uh, since we had the election of a new Pope to really get an opportunity to hear what the first American pope had to say way back in, uh, I guess in the 1980s when Pope John Paul was, was, uh, was Pope.

And this is Father Guido Sarducci, uh, who many have said is the first American Pope. Let's listen to a little bit of what he has to say. 

Father Guido Sarducci: Well, you know, it's been 450 years of Italian Pope. Yes. And this is the first. [00:02:00] I have to say there's a lot of people are kind of a little shaken up 'cause you know, I mean it could bring in a lot of a polisher people and that to the Vatican they said, he says he's not, maybe it is not to same.

He's gonna keep everybody was without the Vatican. So maybe, I mean, everyone's know there's a lot of people are typing up a resumes, stuff like that. Not the secure yet. You know, you didn't realize that people would've been insecure. I don't know. I'm not really insecure, I just don't know. But I hope maybe, you know, like at the CBCI.

You know, I have some friends there and I told, maybe I can come here some. And they get a job if something happens. You know, just 

Michael Pol: Father Guido Sarducci looking for a job when the new Pope comes in. Uh, you know, t uh uh, Ted and I have been talking about it this morning. Uh. We, we do have a new Pope. He's from the United States.

It's it's history. Uh, one of the things that I said this morning about the new Pope, and, and that's pretty much all the news that we've had for the last 24 hours, but, you know, a new Pope from the [00:03:00] United States, he is not going to please everybody, and he's not a politician. He's actually the leader of a church.

There's some things we will agree with him about and there's some things that we will not agree with him about. But I think we should give him a chance. What do you 

Gene Valentino: think? Oh, I think that's absolutely, Sue. Thanks for having me. You know, Michael, just think about it. This isn't a person who was picked by a constituency of 1 billion, 500 million Catholics from around the world.

I take that back. It's their. Conclave of cardinals that actually picked him. But the fact of the matter is that was 1,500 million. Look at the, um, uh, suggested import of significance and strength of such a position in the world scene. And here we have a president of the United States, 350 million people in the United States, elected by about 80 p 80 million people.

And, uh, the, the relative. [00:04:00] Force no matter what you think of Robert Privos who is now uh, uh, car, uh, Pope, uh, Leo the 14th. He is someone that, um, is gonna need Donald Trump. To help bring forward the, um, peacemaking initiatives. He, he, he led with the first words out of his mouth were, may the peace of the Lord be with you.

And if that's true, uh, cardinal, uh, excuse me, Pope Leo the 14th will find it very. Uh, convenient to help foster peace in the world, seen by fac facilitating a relationship with the President of the United States, which Donald Trump initiated when he, uh, reached out with congratulatory messages yesterday.

You 

Michael Pol: know, it's interesting, but Donald Trump has said he does not want any more new wars. He does not. And he's talked about the [00:05:00] war with Ukraine and Russia and about not, he's not necessarily talking about the war itself. It's the poor people. Yeah. The, the soldiers, the humans, that, that get killed and suffer because of this.

It's terrible. War is terrible and we don't want war, and Donald Trump does not want war now. He is not scared to use the military to achieve goals, to to stop things from happening just like he's doing right now. With the Houthis, or was doing until the Houthis raised their hand and said Uncle. Uh, but uh, you know, they may actually, these two may actually find some common ground together, and especially since this guy's an American.

Gene Valentino: Yeah. I found a problem in, uh, when, uh. Uh, Pope Leo was, uh, speaking in three different languages on his opening ceremony, and not one of them was English. Uh, uh, as an American, I hope [00:06:00] he acknowledges the English language more so. And, um, it is the mediation language. It is the language of negotiation. It's um, it's what's being used on the world scene now, and I think he'll find.

President Trump, a facilitator of peace, which was the message he brought forward to 1.5 billion Catholics yesterday. 

Michael Pol: Now Gene, uh, you, you, uh, I mean there's a lot of Catholics in the United States, obviously a lot of Catholics in the world. How do, how does the, how does the Pope, how does he bring all these people together in a way that, uh, that.

We'll put forward the idea that we want to have peace on earth. I mean, how do you get the folks together on that? Because there's so many different factions and, and of course you've got the, the, uh, Muslims who are, you know, they're, they're totally different. I mean, their, their whole [00:07:00] thought process is different.

They're their religion, obviously different. But, you know, Francis reached out to the Muslims as well. And, and, uh, and I wonder if this Pope will do that and, and how he will be able to sort of bring the world together. 

Gene Valentino: I think this Pope Leo will be defined by just how far, how further he, how much further he goes in reaching out for peace.

I think that's the secret sauce. Uh, at 69 years of age. Let's face it, he's got 20, 20 good years ahead of him. As Pope here for us. So he will be defined. He will morph, he will find his niche as he grows into the job over the next 20 years. And, um, I, I gotta tell you, there's war breaking out all over the.

Pakistanis and, uh, India right now, and they're gonna need a hand of peace to come over them and guide them into, into, uh, [00:08:00] some sense of serenity. I think that if, if the Pope can't do it, president Trump will, I think the secret sauce would be a conclave of sorts, uh, at the Vatican made up not of con uh, con, um, cardinals, but of Donald Trump's uh, constituents.

And the Pope's constituents as a peacemaking neutral zone, if you will, that allows, um, uh, adversaries in the world to step up and try to find a solution right behind India and Pakistan. Could be or should be, uh, Russia and, um, Ukraine. Uh. That would be really amazing. Hey, before I forget, I'm watching Rick Santorum, Senator Rick Santorum.

Uh, he's, he's saying he's backed off his adversarial feelings about Pope Leo. He's talking about the fact that Pope Leo's speaking English quite [00:09:00] prolifically. Today at, at hi at the Pope's first mass. And um, he's glad he was doing so. Now it might have been a ceremonial thing I'm not aware of yesterday, but it sure would've been nice to have heard that ceremony in English.

And um, I. And another shoutout goes, Michael, to my dear friend outside of Nashville, nicknamed Pistol, Pete Pistol. Pete's a former ICE agent, uh, under Tom Holman, and he listens to WMXI. Uh, ev every, every Friday morning from the suburbs of, of Nashville, Tennessee. Hello pistol Pete. We're glad you're joining us.

You gotta watch out for this Michael poll. He's a pistol himself. I'll tell you. 

Michael Pol: Well, ex, ex law enforcement guy, you know, I know how that game is played. I'll tell you, I wouldn't do it anymore though. That's something I, you know, I don't know as I, as I get older, what, you know, when you think about the way law enforcement has changed [00:10:00] and the way we just really just.

People in general have changed, and I just couldn't recommend law enforcement to a young man these days as a, as a career. It is just, uh, it's just not the same. There's, it's a lot. It's not 

Gene Valentino: the same because of the disrespect that is cascaded upon all levels of law enforcement, which we are as we are talking, watching a return to the respect, uh, deserving to these law enforcement folks.

Uh, we, um. We see Leticia James just this morning, uh, finding out that she may be, uh, prosecuted not only in, um, in, in, uh, Buffalo, New York, uh, but uh, Eastern Virginia as well, just yesterday. Uh, Janine Pirro, judge Pirro, who has a spot on the Fox News, takes an appointment for us District Court Judge, uh, uh, [00:11:00] appointment from Donald Trump.

She is now district court judge in Washington, dc. And that she has just left the five, she's left. Fox News. We see people returning to law enforcement and showing pride and honor in what it was meant to be. Uh, the protection and care and safety of our, of our citizens, which is what you proudly did tonight.

Commend you for it as well. But there's, there's a lot of beating up that occurred. A lot of demoralization, a lot of the folks having their butts handed to 'em, not by adversaries in the street, which they're ready to take on, but by the very bureaucracy they're working in. And, and therein lies the frustration, but that's changing.

I, um, Biden, who's trying to. Have a, uh, revenge tour of sorts recently on tv, uh, with the, with the view, oh my words. He should have [00:12:00] stayed silent and in the background. What a, he, he continues to make a fool of himself, the Democrat Party in general. And Biden and specifically have done so much damage to this nation that, uh, we, the people have just got to step up and take a hard look, uh, as painful as it is, as where at where our problems, uh, in were initiated from The idea that.

That it's all Democrats is not true either. We've got some hostile rhinos that have caused just as much problem. Goodbye Mitch McConnell and the, the ilk from an earlier generation, a new generation of Gen Z folks are stepping up to take positions in government and to register. First off as re conservative Republican, the biggest surprise, uh, I will tell you over the last.

Decade to me [00:13:00] is the Gen Z crowd that stepped up and became more conservative and more Republican than I ever would've imagined. That didn't just happen. And our marketing and um, I. Uh, promotion campaigns to get to bring on board Republicans, uh, pales in comparison to the sophistication of what the Democrats have been doing.

Yet still, the Republicans seem to have get garnered so much more support. Of a conservative, new wave of youth, a new generation Coming forward as we go into our senior years, I'm, um, I'm restored with some level of confidence that a newer generation will right the ship that has, that we have allowed to run astray.

Michael Pol: You know, that is such a good point, and I have felt the same way about these younger folks. You know, when you look at folks between 18 and 30, [00:14:00] they have really taken a turn toward, uh, the conservative agenda, not necessarily the, uh. I guess you could say the hardcore conservative, but they, they appreciate at least the physical, conservative values that Yeah.

That, that is what made our country great. They still are a little liberal in some of the, uh, the other areas, but, you know, that's okay. Uh, times change, people's change, circumstances change. That's right. And, and I think, uh, I think the young folks have, have really, they've, they've, they've come to the feeling that, you know.

Liberalism is getting us nowhere. We, we are going nowhere with it. We're, we are, we are regressing instead of progressing. And so I, I, I'm happy to see that a lot of younger folks have, have taken that turn 

Gene Valentino: well to the progressives. I say for the new generation of conservatives to the progressives, I say, if you're so smart.

How [00:15:00] come in the 10 last 10 years, we're not better off? Yeah. How come we're stuck with so much of what we have to repair? Here's Donald Trump in parallel, having a great, uh, uh, uh, ex, uh, a treaty. He's just put in place with the economics, uh, uh, a trade tariff arrangement with United Kingdom. So proud of what's about to happen in the next two weeks on the financial scene.

Michael Pol: Good to see you, my friend. Good talking to you. Have a great weekend. We'll see you again next week. 

Gene Valentino: Thank you, Michael. Take care everybody.