{"id":377005,"date":"2026-04-13T07:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T07:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/377005\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T07:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T07:28:09","slug":"trump-blasts-pope-after-attacking-him-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/377005\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump blasts Pope after attacking him on social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump attacked Pope Leo XIV on social media today, saying the first American pope should \u201cstop catering to the Radical Left\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It was an extraordinary broadside against the global leader of the Catholic Church, exacerbating a feud that began over the war in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>A short time later, speaking to reporters after Air Force One landed outside Washington from Florida, Trump said, \u201cWe don\u2019t like a pope who says it\u2019s OK to have a nuclear weapon\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think he\u2019s doing a very good job,\u201d Trump said, adding that \u201cI\u2019m not a fan of Pope Leo\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s comments followed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/04\/12\/pope-denounces-delusion-of-omnipotence-fueling-middle-east-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Leo having denounced<\/a> over the weekend the \u201cdelusion of omnipotence\u201d that is fuelling the US-Israel war in Iran and demanded political leaders stop and negotiate peace.<\/p>\n<p>The US-born pope didn\u2019t mention the United States or Trump by name in his prayer.<\/p>\n<p>But Leo\u2019s tone and message appeared directed at Trump and US officials, who have boasted of US military superiority and justified the war in religious terms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump attacked Pope Leo XIV on social media today, saying the first American pope should \u201cstop catering to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[65,42,43,64,12477,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-377005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-north-america","12":"tag-religion","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topnews","16":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}