4-13-26 BONUS Lunch Episode! Trump Attacks Pope Leo, & The Pope Responds, FULL STORY!
The Rush Hour With Dave Neal
Dave Neal
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🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Rush Hour Podcast – Bonus Lunch Episode
Donald Trump vs. the Pope?! This one escalates fast.
- Donald Trump unloads on the Pope, calling him "weak on crime" in a shocking attack
- Why Trump is targeting the Catholic Church now—and what sparked the comments
- The Pope fires back with a measured but pointed response
- The deeper clash: politics, morality, and influence on the global stage
- How supporters on both sides are reacting to the growing feud
- What this back-and-forth says about religion entering the 2026 political spotlight
This isn't just a headline—it's a cultural collision you won't want to miss.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, Dave Neal here with a special bonus episode of the Rush Hour podcast, lunch hour edition. Hope everyone's having a fine Monday. And boy, I didn't think these words were ever going to come out of my mouth. The president has attacked the Pope. And the Pope has responded. That's right. The president, a billionaire from Queens, New York, beefing with the Pope, a priest from Chicago. What a wild time to be alive. |
| 0:22.7 | I'll share what Trump said. I'll share the Pope's response, and then we have the President |
| 0:26.9 | responding to that. Draw a line in the sand. Are you for a Pope preaching peace, calling this an |
| 0:33.2 | unjust war? Or are you for Trump? Are you calling the Pope a woke Pope? Is it woke to be pro-peace? |
| 0:40.2 | These are the questions we ask ourselves. And we laugh because we cannot cry. |
| 0:44.6 | And Oswald says this will be consequential for J.D. Vance. Of course, J.D. Vance claims to be a |
| 0:50.3 | Catholic. And who's he going to listen to? The guy who pays his bills, well, of course, |
| 0:54.9 | we pay his bills, the taxpayer, but he's going to listen to Daddy Trump or is he going to listen |
| 0:59.2 | to, I don't know, the closest person to God. This is what Trump said. Pope Leo is weak on crime |
| 1:07.2 | and terrible for foreign policy. He talks about fear of the Trump administration, but doesn't |
| 1:11.8 | mention the fear that the Catholic Church and all other Christian organizations had during COVID |
| 1:16.2 | when they were arresting priests, ministers, and everybody else for holding church services, |
| 1:21.2 | even when going outside and being 10 and even 20 feet apart. All right? So we got cultural issues, |
| 1:26.3 | COVID. I like this. I like his brother |
| 1:29.9 | Lewis much better than I like him because Lewis is all MAGA. All right. So Donald Trump is |
| 1:35.7 | claiming to not like the Pope because he's not as MAGA as his brother Lewis. He gets it and |
| 1:42.7 | Leo doesn't. I don't want a Pope who thinks it's okay for Iran |
| 1:45.8 | to have a nuclear weapon. I don't want a Pope who thinks it's terrible that America attacked Venezuela, |
| 1:51.0 | a country that was sending massive amounts of drugs into the United States and even worse, |
| 1:55.2 | emptying their prisons, including murderers, drug dealers, and killers into our country. And I don't |
| 1:59.9 | want a Pope who criticizes |
| 2:01.1 | the President of the United States because I'm doing exactly what I was elected in a landslide to do, |
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