{"id":4576,"date":"2026-04-15T00:37:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T00:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davisrubin.com\/?p=4576"},"modified":"2026-04-15T00:37:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T00:37:06","slug":"pope-leo-just-fired-back-at-trump-after-president-called-him-weak-and-terrible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davisrubin.com\/?p=4576","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo just fired back at Trump after president called him \u2018weak\u2019 and \u2018terrible\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the papal plane to Algiers, Pope Leo cut through the noise with a calm defiance that contrasted sharply with Trump\u2019s furious Truth Social post.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Refusing to trade insults, he insisted he would not \u201center into debate,\u201d framing his words not as political attacks but as a moral warning to any leader who treats war as a show of strength.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5415 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/hnsviral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/rrgr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"796\" height=\"955\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>His target was broader than one president: those with \u201chands full of blood\u201d who dare to pray for victory.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Trump, in turn, painted Leo as na\u00efve on crime, Iran, and Venezuela, even dragging the Pope\u2019s own family into the fight and accusing him of forgetting church lockdowns during COVID.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yet Leo\u2019s answer was to double down on his mission, insisting the Church must build \u201cbridges of peace and reconciliation,\u201d not bless nuclear threats or prison\u2011emptying invasions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5414 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/hnsviral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/hrd-247x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"793\" height=\"963\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Two very different versions of power are now colliding in full view of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the papal plane to Algiers, Pope Leo cut through the noise with a calm defiance that contrasted sharply with Trump\u2019s furious Truth Social post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-viral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davisrubin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davisrubin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davisrubin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davisrubin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davisrubin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davisrubin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4578,"href":"https:\/\/davisrubin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4576\/revisions\/4578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davisrubin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davisrubin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davisrubin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davisrubin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}