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President Donald Trump once again took shots at both Pope Leo XIV and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson in a post on social media on Saturday, this time taking aim at their recent meeting in Rome.
“Someone should explain to the Pope that the Mayor of Chicago is useless, and that Iran cannot have a Nuclear Weapon! President DONALD J. TRUMP,” Trump wrote in the post.
He also linked to two posts on X from Mayor Brandon Johnson during his visit this week to Rome. In the posts from Johnson, he expressed gratitude for the opportunity to meet with Pope Leo XIV.
“Joining our Chicago faith community and His Holiness, Pope Leo XIV, for a multi-faith prayer at the Vatican, yesterday, was one of the most awe-inspiring and humbling experiences of my life,” Johnson said in one of the posts that was included in Trump’s post.
Johnson responded in his own social media post on Saturday, stating “Chicagoans have had enough of Trump’s blasphemous war in Iran. Someone should explain to the president that his belligerence is only making it harder for working families to make ends meet.”
Johnson traveled to Rome with a delegation of some 50 local officials this week, a trip that included his first meeting with the Chicago-born pontiff, a tour of a new metro station and a meeting with the Mayor of Rome.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson got some one-on-one time with Pope Leo in Rome. Johnson was accompanied by a nearly 50-person delegation to see the Holy Father. Mary Ann Ahern reports.
He said in a post on social media that he was looking forward “to exploring how we can use our respective authorities to advance justice both in Chicago and around the world.”
“I am just elated that the pope is from Chicago, right? And so I’m looking forward to this visit at the end of the month,” Johnson said in a previous interview with NBC 5’s Mary Ann Ahern. “And the first thing that I’m going to say to him? I’m going to thank him for his moral clarity, standing up for the most vulnerable, making sure that the people who are the least of these have more than what they need.”
The Saturday post was not Trump’s first time calling out Pope Leo XIV or Johnson on social media.
On Tuesday, Trump called Johnson and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker “terrible” after five police officers were struck by a teenage driver during a “teen takeover” in Chicago on Memorial Day.
Trump also feuded with Pope Leo XIV in mid-April, stating he “is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy.”
“Leo should get his act together as Pope, use Common Sense, stop catering to the Radical Left, and focus on being a Great Pope, not a Politician,” Trump said in the post.
