{"id":16817,"date":"2026-04-25T22:35:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T22:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=16817"},"modified":"2026-04-25T22:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T22:35:13","slug":"pope-leo-takes-fierce-swipe-at-trump-sparking-fresh-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=16817","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo takes fierce swipe at Trump, sparking fresh controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pope Leo XIV has criticized the war in Iran again, drawing a sharp response from Donald Trump, who accused him of \u0432\u043c\u0435\u0448ening in politics. Trump also falsely claimed the pope supports Iran having nuclear weapons\u2014despite the pope\u2019s repeated calls for nuclear disarmament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a trip to Africa, the pope warned that mixed signals between the U.S. and Iran are fueling global instability. As tensions rise around the Strait of Hormuz, Trump insisted the U.S. has \u201ctotal control,\u201d highlighting the growing clash between the two leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo XIV has criticized the war in Iran again, drawing a sharp response from Donald Trump, who accused him of \u0432\u043c\u0435\u0448ening in politics. Trump also falsely claimed the pope supports Iran having nuclear weapons\u2014despite the pope\u2019s repeated calls for nuclear disarmament. After a trip to Africa, the pope warned that mixed signals between the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":16818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}