For the American president, His Holiness “is very soft on crime.”
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, assured this Monday that he will not apologize to Pope Leo
“He was very against what I’m doing with respect to Iran, and a nuclear Iran cannot be allowed; Pope Leo
Far from calming his attacks on the pope, which began this Sunday with a long publication on his Truth Social network, Trump insisted that “he is very soft on crime and other issues.”
Trump on Sunday attacked the pontiff, who has been highly critical of the war in Iran and has launched several calls for peace, accusing him of being “weak on crime and terrible at foreign policy.”
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, assured this Monday that he will not apologize to Pope Leo XIV for the statements in which he accuses him of being “weak on crime” because the pontiff said “things that are wrong” in reference to his criticism of the war in Iran.… pic.twitter.com/O2TVbRIann
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Leo XIV responded this Monday by assuring that he is not “afraid of the Trump Administration.”
“I will continue to raise my voice to build peace,” he told reporters aboard the papal plane.
In addition to the tension with the pope, Trump generated controversy for publishing on his networks, and then deleting, an image in which he was represented as Jesus and which had generated strong rejection from Catholic representatives until now related to the president.
“I thought it was me, as a doctor,” Trump justified to the media after having deleted the image from social networks.
Far from acknowledging the error, he attacked the media and pointed out that “only the fake news media could invent something like that.”
“I make people better,” he added.
