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President Donald Trump on Sunday accused Pope Leo XIV of being “terrible” on foreign policy as the pontiff continues to criticize the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and call for peace.
In a Truth Social post, Trump said Leo is “weak on crime” and “terrible” for foreign policy over his anti-war comments in recent weeks following the start of the war in the Middle East.
“He talks about ‘fear’ of the Trump Administration, but doesnโt mention the FEAR that the Catholic Church, and all other Christian Organizations, had during COVID when they were arresting priests, ministers, and everybody else, for holding Church Services, even when going outside, and being ten and even twenty feet apart,” Trump wrote. “I like his brother Louis much better than I like him, because Louis is all MAGA. He gets it, and Leo doesnโt!”
President Donald Trump accused Pope Leo XIV of being “terrible” on foreign policy. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
“I donโt want a Pope who thinks itโs OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon,” he continued. “I donโt want a Pope who thinks itโs terrible that America attacked Venezuela, a Country that was sending massive amounts of Drugs into the United States and, even worse, emptying their prisons, including murderers, drug dealers, and killers, into our Country. And I donโt want a Pope who criticizes the President of the United States because Iโm doing exactly what I was elected, IN A LANDSLIDE, to do, setting Record Low Numbers in Crime, and creating the Greatest Stock Market in History.”
The president went on to say that the pope “should be thankful because, as everyone knows, he was a shocking surprise.”
“He wasnโt on any list to be Pope, and was only put there by the Church because he was an American, and they thought that would be the best way to deal with President Donald J. Trump,” he wrote. “If I wasnโt in the White House, Leo wouldnโt be in the Vatican.”
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“Unfortunately, Leoโs Weak on Crime, Weak on Nuclear Weapons, does not sit well with me, nor does the fact that he meets with Obama Sympathizers like David Axelrod, a LOSER from the Left, who is one of those who wanted churchgoers and clerics to be arrested. Leo should get his act together as Pope, use Common Sense, stop catering to the Radical Left, and focus on being a Great Pope, not a Politician. Itโs hurting him very badly and, more importantly, itโs hurting the Catholic Church!” he added.
