{"id":11412,"date":"2026-04-13T02:49:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T02:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=11412"},"modified":"2026-04-13T02:49:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T02:49:40","slug":"130222769-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=11412","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Weak on crime&#8217;: Donald Trump slams Pope Leo over &#8216;enough of war&#8217; remark on Iran &#8211; The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130223179,imgsize-758379,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/article-49.jpg\" alt=\"'Weak on crime': Donald Trump slams Pope Leo over 'enough of war' remark on Iran\" title=\"File pics\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>US President <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/donald-trump\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Donald Trump<\/a> on Monday slammed Pope Leo XIV, calling him \u201cweak on crime\u201d and \u201cterrible for foreign policy\u201d, escalating tensions between the White House and the Vatican.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"3\"\/>Trump criticised the pontiff\u2019s stance on global issues, particularly accusing him of being soft on Iran\u2019s nuclear ambitions and opposing US military actions abroad. <!-- -->He also took aim at the Pope\u2019s comments about the Trump administration, saying Leo had highlighted \u201cfear\u201d of his presidency while ignoring restrictions faced by churches during the Covid pandemic.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"7\"\/>&#8220;Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy. He talks about \u201cfear\u201d of the Trump Administration, but doesn\u2019t 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,&#8221; said the US President on Truth Social.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"11\"\/>The US president further claimed that he did not want a pope who, in his view, supported Iran obtaining nuclear weapons or criticised American actions in countries such as Venezuela. Defending his own record, Trump said his administration had achieved record-low crime levels and strong stock market performance, asserting he was carrying out the mandate of his election victory. &#8221; I don\u2019t want a Pope who thinks it\u2019s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon. I don\u2019t want a Pope who thinks it\u2019s 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\u2019t want a Pope who criticizes the President of the United States because I\u2019m 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,&#8221; he added in a long-post on the social media platform.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>In a personal swipe, Trump said he preferred the Pope\u2019s brother, describing him as aligned with his \u201cMake America Great Again\u201d (MAGA) movement. He also alleged that Leo\u2019s elevation to the papacy was unexpected and suggested it was influenced by his own presidency .<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/>Trump further took jabs on the Pope, telling him to \u201cget his act together\u201d and focus on religious leadership rather than politics, warning that such positions were harming the Catholic Church.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"21\"\/>This comes after Pope Leo XIV on Saturday issued a strong appeal for peace, urging world leaders to end ongoing conflicts and reject what he described as a growing culture of power and aggression. \u201cEnough of the idolatry of self and money! Enough of the display of power! Enough of war!\u201d the 70-year-old American pope said, warning against what he called a \u201cdelusion of omnipotence\u201d that is becoming increasingly unpredictable and dangerous.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"24\"\/>Calling for a shift towards dialogue, Leo said leaders must choose negotiation over militarisation. \u201cTo them we cry out: stop! It is time for peace! Sit at the table of dialogue and mediation \u2013 not at the table where rearmament is planned and deadly actions are decided,\u201d he said. He also cautioned against invoking religion to justify violence, adding that even \u201cthe holy Name of God\u2026 is being dragged into discourses of death,\u201d and stressed that \u201ctrue strength is shown in serving life.<!-- -->\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"27\"\/>The remarks come amid a broader disagreement between the two leaders, with Pope Leo recently urging restraint and diplomacy in global conflicts, including the ongoing tensions involving Iran.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"29\"\/><\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/us\/weak-on-crime-donald-trump-slams-pope-leo-over-enough-of-war-remark-on-iran\/articleshow\/130222769.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump on Monday slammed Pope Leo XIV, calling him \u201cweak on crime\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[967,27870,27873,27871,27874,27875,27872],"class_list":["post-11412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-donald-trump","tag-donald-trump-slams-pope-leo-xiv","tag-iran-nuclear-weapons-controversy","tag-pope-leo-xiv-remarks-on-iran","tag-trump-foreign-policy-criticism","tag-us-military-actions-in-iran","tag-us-president-comments-on-vatican"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}