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The historian, on the CNN Portugal program “The Principle of Uncertainty”, addressed the dispute between the pontiff and the North American President. A fight that started in Iran, but soon stopped being just about war: Leo XIV condemned Trump’s threat against “all the people of Iran” as “unacceptable” and asked citizens to tell political leaders that “we don’t want war, we want peace”. Donald Trump responded like Donald Trump. The Pope called him “weak in the fight against crime” and “terrible in foreign policy”. The Pope, however, refused to enter the duel: “I’m not afraid” of the Trump administration, he said