Pope Leo Delivers Powerful Response After Trump Calls Him “Weak”
Pope Leo has officially replied to the harsh remarks directed at him by President Donald Trump.
As the world is likely well aware by now, Trump does not take kindly to criticism. He also rarely tolerates the notion that people might not fully support his agenda.
If you ask his most devoted MAGA followers, they will argue this is one of his greatest strengths. However, if you ask those outside his ardent loyalist base, you will receive a starkly different perspective—one that often compares the President’s handling of obstacles and opposition to a five-year-old throwing a tantrum over a delayed dinner.
Regardless, Pope Leo has recently become a target of Trump’s ire after condemning the current war in Iran and speaking out against the “delusion of omnipotence that surrounds us and is becoming increasingly unpredictable and aggressive.”
“Enough of the idolatry of self and money!” Pope Leo proclaimed. “Enough of the display of power! Enough of war! True strength is shown in serving life.”
Only days prior, he had implored Trump and fellow global leaders engaged in the dispute to step back and reflect.
“I would simply say, once again, what I said in the ‘Urbi et Orbi’ message on Sunday: asking all people of goodwill to search, always, for peace and not violence; 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,” the American-born pontiff expressed.
He also issued a stark reminder to Trump that attacking civilian infrastructure is a direct violation of international law.
“Let’s remember especially the innocent children, the elderly, the sick, so many people who have already become or will become victims of this continued warfare.”
Earlier today, April 13, Trump utilized Truth Social to heavily criticize Pope Leo, posting: “Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy. He talks about ‘fear’ of the Trump Administration, but doesn’t 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.
“I like his brother Louis much better than I like him, because Louis is all MAGA. He gets it, and Leo doesn’t! 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.”
The President then theorized that Leo only became Pope as a strategic reaction to Trump’s presidency, stating: “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.”
Addressing Trump’s explosive remarks, Pope Leo clarified to Reuters that he has no desire to get caught up in a feud with the U.S. President.
“I don’t want to get into a debate with him,” Leo stated to the publication. “I don’t think that the message of the Gospel is meant to be abused in the way that some people are doing.”
He continued, “I will continue to speak out loudly against war, looking to promote peace, promoting dialogue and multilateral relationships among the states to look for just solutions to problems.”
“Too many people are suffering in the world today,” Leo emphasized. “Too many innocent people are being killed. And I think someone has to stand up and say there’s a better way.”
“The message of the church, my message, the message of the Gospel: Blessed are the Peacemakers. I do not look at my role as being political, a politician.”
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