DISGRACEFUL! Pope Francis Compares US President Trump to King Herod Who Slaughtered Baby Boys During the Time of Christ Jim Hoft by Jim Hoft December 6, 2019 196 Comments Share 33Tweet Email The Slaughter of the Innocents In the New Testament, the Massacre of the Innocents is the incident in the nativity narrative of the Gospel of Matthew in which Herod the Great, king of Judea, orders the execution of all male children two years old and under in the vicinity of Bethlehem. On Thursday Pope Francis trashed the global populist people’s movements and compared President Trump to King Herod...