The president continued to escalate his feud with Pope Leo XIV, while the Vice President pushed back against the Catholic leader's criticism of the Iran war.

President Trump posted criticisms of the American pope on Truth Social, calling him weak on crime, as Vance urges the Vatican to stay out of U.S. public policy.

Vice President J.D. Vance answered a question about the president's verbal feud with the Pope and faced a heckler shouting about U.S. support for "genocide in Gaza" during a TPUSA event at UGA on Tuesday night "I like it when the Pope talks about matters of war and peace because I think that,

Vice President JD Vance dismissed backlash on Monday about President Donald Trump’s scathing attacks on Pope Leo XIV. In a lengthy Truth Social post on Sunday, Trump called the pope “WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy” after Leo sharply criticized the U.

Scarborough zeroed in on Vance, who converted to Catholicism in 2019, over his rebuttal of Pope Leo made during an interview with Fox News.

Pope Leo has been critical of the war in Iran and other priorities of the Trump administration, but says his comments are "not meant as attacks on anyone."

Trump attacked the first American pope in history for criticizing the war in Iran and then posted an AI image of himself as the messiah

Trump said Pope Leo isn't disrespectful in criticizing the Iran war but needs to understand the importance of disarming Iran in a 'nasty world.'