The jab comes in a week in which the US president has repeatedly criticized the religious leader, who has emerged as an outspoken critic of the US-Israeli war against Iran.
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, said this Thursday (16) that Pope Leo needs to understand that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon. “The pope has to understand — it’s very simple — that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. The world would be in great danger,” he told reporters at the White House. The jab comes in a week in which the US president has repeatedly criticized the religious leader, who has emerged as an outspoken critic of the US-Israel war on Iran in recent weeks. Trump accused Leão of being “weak” on foreign policy.
On Monday (13), the pontiff president said that . “I will continue to speak with a strong voice about the message of the Gospel, for which the Church works. We are not politicians, we do not look at foreign policy from the same perspective. But we believe in the message of the Gospel as builders of peace.”
Also on Monday, Trump shared an image, apparently generated by artificial intelligence, that depicts him as Jesus. The post was deleted shortly after being shared. In a statement to the journalist, . “I published it and I thought it was me as a doctor. It was about the Red Cross, as a Red Cross worker, which we support. It was supposed to be like a doctor, healing people,” Trump said.
Two days after that post, Trump made another, this time sharing an image in which: “I’ve never been a very religious man… but it doesn’t seem like with all these satanic, demonic, child-sacrificing monsters being exposed… God might be playing his Trump card!”
*With information from Reuters
