{"id":20065,"date":"2026-04-13T03:47:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T03:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=20065"},"modified":"2026-04-13T03:48:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T03:48:00","slug":"trump-slams-pope-leo-urges-him-to-use-common-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/04\/13\/trump-slams-pope-leo-urges-him-to-use-common-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump slams Pope Leo, urges him to \u2018use common sense\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: Donald Trump has sharply criticized Pope Leo, saying the leader of the world\u2019s Catholics should \u201ccorrect himself\u201d and act with \u201ccommon sense.\u201d<br>Posting on Truth Social, this morning Trump said he does not want a pope who criticizes the U.S. president, adding that without him in the White House, Pope Leo \u201cwouldn\u2019t have had a chance\u201d to reach the Vatican.<br>He also claimed the pope\u2019s selection was surprising and linked it to his American background, alleging it was seen as a way to improve engagement with his administration.<br>Trump further criticized the pope\u2019s stance on global issues, saying he opposes any view that would tolerate nuclear weapons for Iran or condemn potential U.S. actions against Venezuela.<br>The remarks come after Pope Leo reportedly criticized some of Trump\u2019s policies, including his threats toward Iran, and called for peace and dialogue over conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Donald Trump has sharply criticized Pope Leo, saying the leader of the world\u2019s Catholics should \u201ccorrect himself\u201d and act with \u201ccommon sense.\u201dPosting on Truth Social, this morning Trump said he does not want a pope who criticizes the U.S. president, adding that without him in the White House, Pope Leo \u201cwouldn\u2019t have had a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20067,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20065\/revisions\/20067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}