President Donald Trump criticized Pope Leo
In a post on Truth Social, Trump claimed that he likes the Pope’s brother Leo “much more” than the Pope. Trump also noted that he does not want a Pope “who thinks it’s okay for Iran to have a nuclear weapon” or who “thinks it’s terrible that the United States attacked Venezuela.”
“Pope Leo is WEAK on crime and terrible on foreign policy,” Trump wrote. “You talk about ‘fear of the Trump Administration, but you don’t mention the FEAR that the Catholic Church and all other Christian organizations had during COVID when they were arresting priests, ministers, and everyone else, for holding religious services, even when they went out into the street, and were ten or even twenty feet away.’
“I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s okay for Iran to have a nuclear weapon,” Trump added. “I don’t want a Pope who thinks it is terrible that the United States attacked Venezuela, a country that was sending massive amounts of drugs to the United States and, even worse, emptying its prisons, including murderers, drug dealers and assassins, in our country.”
Trump added that he also did not want a Pope who would criticize him because he was “doing exactly” what he was elected to do.
Trump’s post continued in part:
Leo should be grateful because, as everyone knows, it was a shocking surprise. He wasn’t on any list to be pope, and the Church only included him there because he was an American and they thought that would be the best way to deal with President Donald J. Trump. If I weren’t in the White House, Leo wouldn’t be in the Vatican. Unfortunately, Leo’s Weak on Crime, Weak on Nukes line doesn’t sit well with me, nor does the fact that he hangs out with Obama supporters like David Axelrod, a LOSER on the left, who is one of those who wanted churchgoers and clergy arrested.
Trump went on to ask Pope Leo to “get it together” and “use common sense” and “stop catering to the radical left.”
The president’s criticism of the Pope comes as Pope Leo “has consistently condemned the war in Iran,” the New York Post reported. Pope Leo has also “condemned the ‘idolatry of the self’ and the ‘deception of omnipotence’ at play” in the war against Iran.
Breitbart London reported that during the Pope’s “first Easter Mass,” he called on “those who have weapons” to lay them down, and “those who have the power to unleash war” to “choose peace.”
“Not a peace imposed by force, but through dialogue,” the Pope added. “Not with the desire to dominate others, but to find them.”
