It's a TRAP: Trump's Beef with Pope Leo Cannot Be Won | Guest: Rep. Chip Roy | 4/13/26

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🗓️ 13 April 2026

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Steve says Trump's polemics against Pope Leo are a trap and that attacking a symbol like Leo (woke as he is) is bound to fail. Then Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) joins the program to provide an update on what Republicans in D.C. are doing and how his Texas AG race is faring. In Hour Two, Steve fields questions from his audience on X for Ask Deace Anything. TODAY'S SPONSORS: PREBORN: https://give.preborn.com/preborn/media-partner?sc=IABSD0123RA FAST GROWING TREES: https://www.fast-growing-trees.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=Steve+Deace+Show code DEACE BIRCH GOLD: Text STEVE to 989898 JASE MEDICAL: https://jasemedical.com/ and enter code “DEACE” at checkout for a discount on your order BEAM: https://shopbeam.com/products/sleep-powder?discount=steve&variant=40436356710455&selling_plan=787415095&utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=sponsorship&utm_campaign=steve and use code STEVE at checkout ANIMAL FARM: https://www.angel.com/animalfarm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's the Seave Day Show. Here's what happened while we were away.
0:03.3	Brought to you by Sunday Night Raw, Pope Leo versus Donald Trump.
0:07.2	Since the outbreak of the conflict in Iran, the first American Pope, Pope, Pope Leo the 14th, has been
0:11.9	uber critical of the hostilities, saying stuff like peace cannot be achieved through war.
0:16.6	God doesn't bless conflict and specifically called some of Trump's rhetoric surrounding the
0:20.5	conflict as,
0:21.1	quote, unacceptable. Well, it seems like Trump has had enough of the new Pope. Posted on Truth Social
0:26.3	Sunday evening that Leo is weak on crime, that he doesn't want a Pope who's okay with Iran having a
0:31.1	nuclear weapon, says he likes Pope Leo's brother more than he likes the pontiff, and accused the Catholic
0:36.2	Church of specifically choosing Leo
0:38.2	because it would be, quote, the best way to deal with President Donald J. Trump.
0:42.7	So Trump got that off his chest, but he wasn't done yet.
0:45.9	For some reason, last night, Trump posted an AI-generated image of his face,
0:50.9	superimposed on a familiar artistic visage of Christ. He posted the image with no context
0:56.3	or commentary bizarre. This morning, Pope Leo says, I have no fear on the end of the Trump administration
1:03.0	are speaking out loudly about the message of the gospel. And that's what I believe. I am called to know
1:09.9	what the church is called to do.
1:11.2	Moving on and on the topic of Iran, Vice President J.D. Vance had himself a marathon negotiating session with Iran and Pakistani mediators in Islamabad.
1:20.2	21 hours. And we've had a number of substantive discussions with the Iranians. That's the good news.
1:28.2	The bad news is that we have not reached an agreement. And I think that's bad news for Iran much more than it's
1:32.4	bad news for the United States of America. So we go back to the United States having not come
1:37.2	to an agreement. We've made very clear what our red lines are, what things we're willing
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