President Donald Trump on Thursday claimed not to have any beef with Pope Leo XIV and suggested that his multiple attacks against the American-born leader of the Catholic Church over the past week are merely the product of a disagreement over Iran’s nuclear weapons program — something the pontiff has never spoken publicly about.
Speaking to reporters outside the White House before he departed for a series of political appearances in Las Vegas and Arizona, Trump denied that he was “fighting” with Leo while simultaneously claiming that the Pope had voiced approval of Iran’s right to have a nuclear weapon.
