When asked by reporters if he would meet with Pope Leo XIV as Washington and the Vatican clash over the Iran war, Trump said, “I don’t think it’s necessary.”

The president’s attack follows Pope Leo XIV’s sharp public rebukes of Trump’s decision to go to war with Iran and his threats to destroy the country.

President Donald Trump on Sunday bashed Pope Leo XIV over the U.S.-born pontiff’s criticism of the U.S. war in Iran.

The pontiff ‘refuses to get into a debate’ with the president