Trump Launches Feud with Pope
Anderson Cooper 360
CNN
3.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Good evening from the newsroom, topping our CNN global war coverage tonight, what |
| 0:09.1 | the Commander-in-Chief is doing when he's not running the war or presiding over talks to end |
| 0:13.8 | it. For most wartime presidents, that would be very little. For this president, when he's |
| 0:18.0 | not traveling to Miami to see a UFC cage match or playing |
| 0:21.2 | golf on the weekends, it is picking a fight with the Pope over the war and depicting himself |
| 0:26.0 | as the son of God. And apparently, staying up much of the night, posting things on |
| 0:30.2 | social media. At 9.03 p.m. last night, the President of the United States started in on the |
| 0:34.9 | Pope. Quote, Pope Leo is weak on crime and terrible for foreign policy. |
| 0:39.8 | Also, I don't want a Pope who thinks it's okay for Iran to have a nuclear weapon. |
| 0:44.1 | In this, Leo, not his holiness, he'll notice. |
| 0:47.1 | Leo should be thankful because as everyone knows, he was a shocking surprise. |
| 0:51.5 | He wasn't on any list to be Pope and was only put there by the church |
| 0:55.2 | because he was an American and they thought that would be the best way to deal with President |
| 0:59.3 | Donald J. Trump. If it wasn't in the White House, Leo wouldn't be in the Vatican. He adds, |
| 1:05.7 | quote, Leo should get his act together as Pope, use common sense, stop catering to the radical |
| 1:10.4 | left, and focus on being a great Pope, use common sense, stop catering to the radical left, and focus |
| 1:11.6 | on being a great Pope, not a politician. The President followed it up moments later when |
| 1:16.7 | he said this to reporters. |
| 1:17.7 | He's a very liberal person, and he's a man that doesn't believe in stopping crime. He's a man |
| 1:25.6 | that doesn't think that we should be |
| 1:28.3 | toying with a country that wants a nuclear weapon so they can blow up the world. |
| 1:34.3 | I'm not a fan of Publio. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from CNN, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of CNN and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

