When The Worst Person is Leading the Greatest Nation

The Beautiful Mess by John Pavlovitz Podcast · May 3, 2025 · 4m

I’d just hopped into a cab in Toronto, on my way to the airport after a weekend speaking engagement.

My driver's name was Mohammed, a middle-aged man born in Afghanistan, who earned his PhD and moved here in his twenties.

We talked about the weather, about my work, about our children, and about family car trips to Disney World.

Then, we started talking about America.

As we got closer to the airport, I joked with Mohammed that, given my open critiques of the current Administration, I was unsure whether they'd let me back in, and with my feelings about the state of things right now, I wasn't…