Trump Blasts Pope Leo (Again)
The online war between the President and the American Pope continues.
In a continuous digital showdown between the White House and the Pope, President Donald J. Trump has launched another attack on Leo XIV, labeling the first-ever American pontiff a "hyper-liberal" partisan whose past social media activity undermines his credibility on the world stage.
The clash comes as the U.S.-Israeli campaign against Iran is held by a fragile ceasefire. The conflict led the Pope to repeatedly condemn it as "atrocious" and "inhuman."
Following Monday's night tweets, late Tuesday President Trump once again retweeted, this time, a viral post from influencer KanekoaTheGreat. The post featured "receipts" from the Pope’s deleted X account under his birth name, Robert Prevost.
The screenshots reveal that before his May 2025 election, the Chicago-born Cardinal was a vocal critic of the "America First" movement, frequently trashing Trump and JD Vance over immigration and border policies. Advocating for "open borders" and stricter gun control. Promoting COVID-19 vaccines and climate change petitions.
The account, @drprevost, was abruptly deleted the day he was elected to the Papacy.
"The account was deleted the day he was elected," the post noted, implying a strategic scrub of his political past.
President Trump didn't stop at the retweets. In a direct Truth Social post on April 14, he hit back at the Pope’s recent calls for an "off-ramp" in the war against Tehran.
"Will someone please tell Pope Leo that Iran has killed at least 42,000 innocent, completely unarmed, protesters in the last two months, and that for Iran to have a Nuclear Bomb is absolutely unacceptable," Trump wrote. "AMERICA IS BACK!!! President DONALD J. TRUMP."
Speaking from his plane en route to Algeria yesterday, Pope Leo XIV showed no sign of retreating. Addressing the President’s broadsides, the 70-year-old Chicagoan told reporters he has "no fear" of the administration.
"We are not politicians," the Pope stated. "I will not shy away from announcing the message of the Gospel... which is what the Church works for."
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