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Intimate Knowledge

Pope Leo's Unexpected Clapback to President Trump's Attack

Intimate Knowledge

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Society & Culture

3.5697 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

On a flight headed to Algeria, Pope Leo began his 10 day tour of African nations with a response to President Trump’s social media attack on him. The Pope saying he has no fear of the Trump Administration and went even further to say he believes it is his calling to “speak loudly” about the message of the Gospel.  Pope Leo even got in an unexpected jab about Trump’s Truth Social account, calling the naw of the platform “ironic.”

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:06.2

Hey there, folks.

0:07.0

It is Monday, April 13th and a payful clapback.

0:12.6

With that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. Roeb.

0:15.1

This was the kindest, gentlest clapback you're ever going to hear.

0:20.7

But the idea of Trump versus Leo sounds ridiculous,

0:25.8

but that's kind of what we got going on, Robs, but we just heard from Pope Leo,

0:30.5

and he is bringing the temperature down.

0:32.8

Yes, but I do actually appreciate the fact that he isn't shying away from his earlier comments about

0:39.9

promoting peace, about asking people to call their elected officials, to urge their leaders

0:47.7

for calm, for no more bombs.

0:50.6

He's not backing down from anything he said.

0:52.8

And if anything, a little bit of his Chicago side

0:56.6

came into it, I think, a little, because he couldn't help himself. He added a little jab at the

1:01.8

end, but it was in the most tasteful, respectful way a pope could possibly poke a president

1:08.6

back. Okay, this all started because the president took the Pope to task in a way

1:14.0

that really shocked a lot of people. And at this moment, as we're recording this here, the top

1:19.5

trending topics on X are Pope, Catholic, Vatican, blasphemy, Antichrist, gospel, those are all in your top ten.

1:30.6

Wow.

1:31.2

This is being talked about Roads in such a way because it's one thing.

1:33.8

We were used to the president actually saying calling women piggy.

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