{"id":90691,"date":"2026-06-01T16:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T14:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/?p=90691"},"modified":"2026-06-01T16:28:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T14:28:51","slug":"trump-criticizes-mayor-johnson-about-his-stance-on-iran-after-chicago-leaders-meeting-with-pope-leo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2026\/06\/01\/trump-criticizes-mayor-johnson-about-his-stance-on-iran-after-chicago-leaders-meeting-with-pope-leo\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump criticizes Mayor Johnson about his stance on Iran after Chicago leader's meeting with Pope Leo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Donald Trump criticized the Mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, calling him out after he met with Pope Leo XIV and after Johnson denounced the U.S. President in a subsequent press conference. Trump responded via social media:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p><em>Someone should explain to the Pope that the mayor of Chicago is useless and that Iran cannot have nuclear weapons.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>For months, the Trump administration has accused Chicago leaders of encouraging crime and of refusing to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Vatican has not provided details about the meeting, but Johnson indicated that U.S. immigration and the war in Iran were discussed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pope Leo has of course also come under Trump's direct verbal fire for his opposition to the military offensive launched by the United States and Israel against Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This opposition has sparked reactions from Trump on several occasions, who has previously argued that \u201cthe pontiff was putting Catholics at risk.\u201d Pope Leo stood his ground, stating:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf anyone wishes to criticize me, let them do so truthfully. The Church has spoken out against all nuclear weapons for years, and there is no doubt about that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump criticized the Mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, calling him out after he met with Pope Leo XIV and after Johnson denounced the U.S. President in a subsequent press conference. Trump responded via social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,25],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/7tA-3sQGAZw","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bnuovomessaggiotrumpeng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bnuovomessaggiotrumpint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90691"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90704,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90691\/revisions\/90704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}