{"id":139317,"date":"2026-05-31T20:47:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T20:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/139317\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T20:47:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T20:47:30","slug":"trump-again-suggests-pope-unaware-of-iran-nuclear-stance-despite-his-repeated-calls-for-disarmament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/139317\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump again suggests pope unaware of Iran nuclear stance despite his repeated calls for disarmament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-[18px] md:text-[20px] first-of-type:mt-5 mt-[16px] lg:mt-[28px] leading-[28px] md:leading-8 normal \">President Donald Trump warned against a nuclear\u2011armed Iran, reacting to Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson\u02bcs May 28 meeting with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican, where the mayor said they discussed U.S. immigration and the Iran conflict.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-[18px] md:text-[20px] first-of-type:mt-5 mt-[16px] lg:mt-[28px] leading-[28px] md:leading-8 normal \">Trump posted, \u201cSomeone should explain to the Pope that the Mayor of Chicago is useless, and that Iran cannot have a Nuclear Weapon.\u201d He also shared screenshots of the mayor\u2019s posts with pictures of him and the Chicago-born pope sharing gifts and praying. Trump made the comments in a May 30 <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/116665431926784379\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"text-red-500 hover-underline-animation-red\">post<\/a> on Truth Social.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-[18px] md:text-[20px] first-of-type:mt-5 mt-[16px] lg:mt-[28px] leading-[28px] md:leading-8 normal \">The president has repeatedly claimed, without evidence, that Leo wants the Middle Eastern country to develop nuclear armaments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-[18px] md:text-[20px] first-of-type:mt-5 mt-[16px] lg:mt-[28px] leading-[28px] md:leading-8 normal \">Leo has rejected those allegations. On May 5 at Castel Gandolfo he stated that the Church &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ewtnnews.com\/vatican\/pope-leo-xiv-says-violence-is-a-last-resort-rejects-trump-s-claim-about-supporting-nuclear\" class=\"text-red-500 hover-underline-animation-red\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has spoken for years against all nuclear weapons<\/a>.&#8221; Later, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin stated that the Holy See &#8220;has always worked, and will continue to work, on nuclear disarmament.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-[18px] md:text-[20px] first-of-type:mt-5 mt-[16px] lg:mt-[28px] leading-[28px] md:leading-8 normal \">The White House and Chicago mayor\u2019s office did not immediately reply to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-[18px] md:text-[20px] first-of-type:mt-5 mt-[16px] lg:mt-[28px] leading-[28px] md:leading-8 normal \">Trump sharply criticized Pope Leo XIV in April, calling him \u201cweak on crime\u201d and \u201cterrible for foreign policy\u201d and saying he is \u201cnot a fan\u201d of the pope.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-[18px] md:text-[20px] first-of-type:mt-5 mt-[16px] lg:mt-[28px] leading-[28px] md:leading-8 normal \">Trump expressed his disapproval of Leo\u02bcs public statements denouncing the U.S.-led war on Iran. The Holy Father has repeatedly called for peace amid the ongoing conflict.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-[18px] md:text-[20px] first-of-type:mt-5 mt-[16px] lg:mt-[28px] leading-[28px] md:leading-8 normal \">The pope has said he is \u201cnot afraid of the Trump administration or of speaking out loudly about the message of the Gospel.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump warned against a nuclear\u2011armed Iran, reacting to Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson\u02bcs May 28 meeting with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[1566,2803,34,196,37821,5657,864],"class_list":["post-139317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-catholic-news","tag-chicago","tag-iran","tag-iran-war","tag-nuclear-disarmament","tag-pope-leo-xiv","tag-president-donald-trump"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116671154819085864","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}