Trump attacked Pope Leo XIV on social media today, saying the first American pope should “stop catering to the Radical Left”.
It was an extraordinary broadside against the global leader of the Catholic Church, exacerbating a feud that began over the war in Iran.
A short time later, speaking to reporters after Air Force One landed outside Washington from Florida, Trump said, “We don’t like a pope who says it’s OK to have a nuclear weapon”.
“I don’t think he’s doing a very good job,” Trump said, adding that “I’m not a fan of Pope Leo”.
Trump’s comments followed Leo having denounced over the weekend the “delusion of omnipotence” that is fuelling the US-Israel war in Iran and demanded political leaders stop and negotiate peace.
The US-born pope didn’t mention the United States or Trump by name in his prayer.
But Leo’s tone and message appeared directed at Trump and US officials, who have boasted of US military superiority and justified the war in religious terms.
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