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“As everyone is aware, today there was a looming threat directed at the people of Iran, which is utterly intolerable,” stated Leo as he departed from his residence in Castel Gandolfo, located just south of Rome.
Trump has recently criticized the Pope, labeling him as “weak” and “terrible,” while also making perplexing comments about COVID, Venezuela, and Barack Obama.
On his platform, Trust Social, Trump lashed out at the Pope, accusing him of being “weak on crime” and “terrible on social policy.” His tirade took an erratic turn as he seemingly condemned the church’s actions during the pandemic, particularly regarding the enforcement of social distancing measures.
“I much prefer his brother Louis, who is a supporter of MAGA,” Trump remarked.
In a conversation with reporters, he further stated, “We disagree with a pope who condones the possession of nuclear weapons. I don’t like it. I’m not a fan of Pope Leo.”
He also said “I don’t want a Pope who criticizes a president of the United States because I am doing exactly what I was elected in a LANDSLIDE to do.”
Trump also brought up Venezuela, which the US attacked in January, in his remarkable post.
“I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon.
“I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s 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,” he said.
He also claimed Leo was only chosen because he was president.
“Leo should be thankful because, as everyone knows, he was a shocking surprise.
“He wasn’t 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.
“If I wasn’t in the White House, Leo wouldn’t be in the Vatican.”
He also claimed the Pope ”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.”
Axelrod was an adviser to Obama.
“We don’t like a pope that says it’s okay to have a nuclear weapon,” Trump later told reporters.
“I don’t like it. I’m not a big fan of Pope Leo.”
“It is such an honour to realise that he is the first American Pope,” Trump, who is Christian but not Catholic said, on Truth Social.
“What excitement, and what a Great Honour for our Country. I look forward to meeting Pope Leo XIV. It will be a very meaningful moment!”
Trump attended the funeral of Pope Francis.
The American pope has also recently urged Americans and other “people of good will”to contact their political leaders and congressional representatives to demand they reject war and work for peace.
He used his Easter appeal to plea for “peace and to reject war, especially a war which many people have said is an unjust war, which is continuing to escalate, and which is not resolving anything.”
Leo has also publicly named Trump in saying he hoped the US president was truly “looking for an off-ramp.”
Also last week Leo didn’t cite Trump by name but in comments in English he urged people to contact their political leaders and congressional representatives “to ask them, tell them to work for peace and to reject war.”
He said the message to political leaders should be: “Come back to the table, let’s talk, let’s look for solutions in a peaceful way and let’s remember especially the innocent children, the elderly, sick, so many people who have already become or will become victims of this continued warfare.”
The Vatican is particularly concerned about how the Iran conflict has spread to a renewed war in Lebanon between Israel and the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant Hezbollah group.
The Vatican fears for Christians in southern Lebanon.
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