When Caesar Attacks the Vicar: Trump’s Broadside and the Neo-Church’s Nakedness
EWTN News Staff Vatican reports that on April 12, 2026, President Donald Trump publicly attacked the usurper on Peter’s throne, Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), calling him “WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy” in a social media post, and telling reporters: “I don’t think he’s doing a very good job. … I am not a fan of Pope Leo,” adding: “He’s a very liberal person.” Trump accused Leo of being soft on Iran and criticized his opposition to U.S. military operations, writing: “I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon,” and claimed credit for Leo’s election in May 2025, asserting: “He wasn’t on any list to be Pope, and was only put there by the Church because he was an American,” and “If I wasn’t in the White House, Leo wouldn’t be in the Vatican.” The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, responded that he was “disheartened” by Trump’s attack, defending Leo as “the Vicar of Christ who speaks from the truth of the Gospel and the care of souls.” Trump also posted an image commentators said depicted him as Jesus Christ, wearing a biblical-style robe and laying hands on a bedridden man as light emanated from his fingers. This spectacle of a secular ruler mocking a false pontiff, while the latter’s own defenders scramble to invoke titles that no longer correspond to any spiritual reality, lays bare the complete theological and spiritual bankruptcy of the post-conciliar edifice.









