About an hour after 60 Minutes did a segment on Pope Leo and U.S. cardinals opposing Donald Trump‘s Iran war and immigration policies, the president posted a Truth Social tirade about the Holy Father.
In a rare and perhaps unprecedented attack by a president on the leader of the Catholic church, Trump called Leo “weak on crime” and “terrible for foreign policy,” and suggested that the pontiff was chosen to “deal with” his presidency.
Trump posted, “If I wasn’t in the White House, Leo wouldn’t be in the Vatican.”
He added, “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.”
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After posting the attack, Trump told reporters,
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