MIKEY SMITH: 7 unhinged things Donald Trump did in 24 hours as he says Catholics 'can't take a joke'

Last week saw Donald Trump offend members of one of the world's biggest religions and tell parents his policies will make them too poor to buy toys for their kids.

You might think that after all that, this week would seem like an anti-climax, but no.

With scant regard for your reporter's days off, Trump used the weekend to announce plans to re-open a prison that's been a museum for several decades, possibly because he saw a movie about it.

Speaking of movies, he's apparently discovered most of them aren't made in America, and decided that's bad. But instead of incentivising studios to bring productions back to Hollywood - perhaps by making it cheaper to film there by building homes and infrastructure - he decided to punish them for producing films overseas instead, by slapping them with (sigh) tariffs.

Oh, and right before a visit from Canada's Mark Carney - his commerce secretary had a massive pop at Canada on live TV.

Here's a roundup of the most unhinged things that happened in Trump in the last day or so.

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1. Trump said offended Catholics "can't take a joke".

Trump claims he had "nothing to do with" an image posted to his own Truth Social account, and reposted by the official White House account, which depicted him as the Pope - just days after the death of Pope Benedict.

Told at an Oval Office event that some Catholics had been offended by the image, Trump said: "Oh, they can't take a joke."

He added: "You don't mean the Catholics, you mean the fake news media. The Catholics loved it."

"I had nothing to do with it," he went on. "That's not me that did it. Maybe it was AI."

Trump insisted that he first saw the image on Sunday evening.

Yet more bizarrely, he said that first lady "thought it was cute."

2. Trump is not a fan of foreign films

Among the many mad things Trump has "announced" in recent days is his order to the administration to slap 100% tariffs on "any and all Movies" coming into the US that are produced overseas.

Details of the policy - including how much of the film needs to be produced overseas to qualify, whether it will include movies that are shot overseas, and if so, how much would need to be shot overseas to qualify - have yet to be worked out, but the White House is apparently "exploring all options."

Many of America's biggest movie franchises, including Disney's Marvel movies, are filmed at Pinewood Studios in London. This is absolutely not a new thing and has been the case for decades.

It's even been a couple of decades since Hollywood noticed that Toronto looks a lot like most American cities and has very attractive tax breaks for filmmakers.

And given the lead time on making a movie is several years, there absolutely wouldn't be time for studios to change their production plans, unless the tariffs were delayed until, more or less, the end of Trump's second presidency.

It's also unclear whether the policy only affects cinema or will apply to TV and streaming also - which would cause significant problems for , a huge proportion of whose output is produced overseas.

3. Then Lutnick had a pop at Canada, right before a visit from the PM

Newly minted Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will make his first visit to the White House today.

So you'd think the administrations would go easy on the Canada bashing, maybe just for a couple of days, to get the diplomacy out of the way.

Ha. Obviously not. Howard Lutnick, Trump's Energiser bunny-esque Commerce Secretary went on (where else?) Fox Business News and declared: "They have basically been feeding off of us for decades upon decades upon decades.

"They have their socialist regime and it's basically feeding off of America ... why do we do our films in Canada? C'mon! ... I just don't see how it works out perfectly."

4. Trump says he doesn't know why Mark Carney is coming today

Trump told reporters on Monday that he wasn't quite sure why Carney was visiting.

"I'm not sure what he wants to see me about," Trump said. "But I guess he wants to make a deal."

5. He properly wants to re-open Alcatraz

After announcing - curiously soon after a network television showing of Escape from Alcatraz - that he wants to re-open the San Francisco island prison which has been closed for 60 years and a museum for decades - Trump doubled down on it at the Oval event.

"It represents something very strong, very powerful in terms of law and order. Our country needs law and order," he said.

Alcatraz is absolutely not in any position to be a prison again any time soon. It would cost tens of millions of dollars to do even the basics of making the island safe and earthquake-proof it before you even start updating it to the standards of a modern correctional facility.

After claiming the only person ever to try to escape from the prison had been eaten by sharks (this is wildly untrue), the President said this extremely odd collection of words: "We'll see if we can bring it back, in large form and a lot.

"Right now it's a hulk just resting there rotting ...it sort of represents something that's horrible and beautiful and strong and miserable and weak. It's got a lot of qualities that are interesting."

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6. Muriel Bowser's poker face is terrible

Muriel Bowser, the Mayor of Washington DC, was in the Oval Office last night to promote the announcement that the 2027 draft will take place in the city.

And after watching her face throughout the Q&A section of the event, I now suddenly want to play poker with her as soon as possible.

The whole thing's a masterclass in baffled gurning, but watch her during Trump's answer about re-opening Alcatraz here. At one point you can clearly see her mouth "oh god", before exhaling quite firmly.

7. He blocked Harvard's grant funding until it agrees to his demands

Harvard University is said to have been told yesterday that it would not receive billions of dollars in research grants and aid unless it agrees to a list of demands from Trump.

Trump's administration had called for broad government and leadership reforms at the university, as well as changes to its admissions policies. It also demanded the university audit views of diversity on campus, and stop recognising some student clubs.

He's made similar demands of other universities which he claimed were hotbeds for "political, ideological, and terrorist inspired/supporting 'Sickness".

Harvard President Alan Garber said the university would not bend to the government's demands - making them the first of seven targeted universities to refuse.

He said in a statement: "The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights...

"No government - regardless of which party is in power - should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue."

Well, yesterday, Education Secretary and wrestling mogul Linda McMahon wrote to them, saying: "This letter is to inform you that Harvard should no longer seek grants from the federal government, since none will be provided."

The bizarre letter, which McMahon posted on Twitter, is littered with all-caps words and unsubstantiated claims.

"Where do many of these 'students' come from, who are they, how do they get into Harvard, or even into our country -- and why is there so much HATE?" She writes.

"Harvard University has made a mockery of this country's higher education system. It has invited foreign students, who engage in violent behavior and show contempt for the United States of America, to its campus,"