{"id":71564,"date":"2026-04-13T10:55:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T15:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/pope-leo-xiv-pushes-back-against-donald-trump-broadside-against-him-video\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T10:55:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T15:55:49","slug":"pope-leo-xiv-pushes-back-against-donald-trump-broadside-against-him-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/pope-leo-xiv-pushes-back-against-donald-trump-broadside-against-him-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV pushes back against Donald Trump broadside against him \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump has delivered an extraordinary broadside against Pope Leo XIV, saying the US-born leader of the Catholic church was \u201ca very liberal person\u201d who did not believe in stopping crime.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>In response, the pope, who arrived in Algeria on Monday as part of an 11-day tour of Africa, told reporters on the papal flight that he did not fear the Trump administration and would continue to speak out against war.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The president&#8217;s comments came after Leo suggested over the weekend that a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/11\/pope-leo-us-israel-iran-war\">\u201cdelusion of omnipotence\u201d was fuelling the US-Israel war in Iran<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/13\/donald-trump-pope-leo\"><strong>Trump calls Pope Leo \u2018weak\u2019 and \u2018terrible\u2019 in extraordinary broadside<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2026\/apr\/13\/pope-leo-xiv-donald-trump-iran-war-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump has delivered an extraordinary broadside against Pope Leo XIV, saying the US-born leader of the Catholic church was \u201ca very liberal person\u201d who did not believe in stopping crime. In response, the pope, who arrived in Algeria on Monday as part of an 11-day tour of Africa, told reporters on the papal flight &#8230; <a title=\"Pope Leo XIV pushes back against Donald Trump broadside against him \u2013 video\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/pope-leo-xiv-pushes-back-against-donald-trump-broadside-against-him-video\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Pope Leo XIV pushes back against Donald Trump broadside against him \u2013 video\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}