“Weak on crime and terrible on foreign policy”

And not only that: he has also urged “stop pandering to the radical left”focus on “being a great pope and not a politician” and using “common sense.” “A lot of damage is being done, and more importantly, it is harming the Catholic Church a lot,” the US president expressed on his Truth Social account.

Trump has thus responded to the criticism that the pontiff has leveled in recent weeks against the US Administration for unleashing an “absurd and inhuman violence” with the massive bombing campaign against Iran, in collaboration with Israel, and further destabilize the region.

“I don’t want a pope who thinks it’s okay for Iran to have a nuclear weapon. I do not want a pope who considers it terrible that the United States has attacked Venezuela (…). And I don’t want a pope who criticizes the president of the United States when I’m doing exactly what I was elected to do,” Trump said.

Likewise, the Republican president has suggested that Leo XIV was chosen as leader of the Catholic Church “because he was American, and they thought it would be the best way to deal” with him: “If I weren’t in the White House, he wouldn’t be in the Vatican”he has opined. For this reason, he urged the Pope to “be grateful.”

“León should get your act together like dad“Use common sense, stop pleasing the radical left and focus on being a great pope, not a politician,” Trump stressed in his message, reusing some formulas with which he attacks the Democrats. “I much prefer his brother Louis to himbecause Louis is totally MAGA. “He understands it, and León doesn’t,” he added, quoting Louis Prevost, who has embraced right-wing conspiracy theories on his social networks.

In this almost primer year of pontificate, although always in a very cautious tone, Leo

Last Saturday, from the Vatican, the Pope urged the world’s rulers to contain any “exhibition of force” and to “sit at tables of dialogue and mediation.” Although he did not mention specific cases, that message coincided with the negotiations between the US and Iran in Pakistan, from which no concrete results have yet emerged.