Trump lashed out at Pope Leo XIV amid Iran war rebuke

President Donald Trump lashed out at Pope Leo XIV on social media, calling him “weak on crime” and “terrible for foreign policy,” as tensions escalate in the Mideast.

“I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon,” Trump said in a post on his social media website, Truth Social, Sunday night. “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. And I don’t want a Pope who criticizes the President of the United States because I’m 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.”

Trump claimed Pope Leo was elected as pope because the Church thought an American pontiff 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 wrote.