{"id":4534,"date":"2026-07-30T04:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T04:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=4534"},"modified":"2026-07-30T04:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T04:23:09","slug":"pope-leo-takes-veiled-shot-at-trump-in-first-u-s-tv-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=4534","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo Takes Veiled Shot at Trump in First U.S. TV Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Pope Leo XIV took a veiled shot at President Donald Trump while talking about his home country and immigration.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=4532\">DHS Agents\u2019 Raging Texts About \u2018Stunt\u2019 Targeting Newsom Revealed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an NBC News interview that aired Wednesday, Leo, 70, was asked what he loves about America, and explained that his lineage has given him much to appreciate. <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cSo many things. In a sense, speaking about principles, what America stands for, the sense of freedom, the sense of opportunity, the sense of having invited for generations people from around the world to be part of America,\u201d he told anchor Tom Llamas in the Borgo Laudato Si\u2019 papal gardens outside Rome. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI come from a family that\u2014my grandparents were immigrants. On my mother\u2019s side, we have people who were both slaves and slave owners,\u201d he added, referring to a genealogical study conducted last year. \u201cThere\u2019s a history of, if you will, growing up in the kind of experience that helps me to recognize myself, one of the greatest wealths of the United States, and I continue to hold the principles that have been a part of being American for so many years, that that will continue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While NBC\u2019s Lester Holt exchanged brief remarks with Leo during an international journalist gathering last year, Wednesday marked the religious leader\u2019s first U.S. television interview since becoming pope, Status noted. His comments come amid President Donald Trump\u2019s periodic attacks on the Catholic leader over immigration, having called him \u201cweak on crime\u201d and \u201cterrible for foreign policy.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Leo, who has also been lectured to by adult Catholic convert JD Vance, has maintained that the Trump administration\u2019s immigration policies have been \u201cinhuman,\u201d adding that he has \u201cno fear of the Trump administration, or speaking out loudly of the message of the gospel, which is what I believe I am here to do, what the church is here to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Trump\u2019s tough talk about the pope, the White House extended an invitation to the Chicago native to attend the country\u2019s 250th anniversary celebrations in Washington. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=4530\">Trump\u2019s Nepo Baby Spy Chief Makes Desperate Bid to Keep His Job<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Instead, the Vatican announced that he would go to Lampedusa, Italy, the country\u2019s southernmost point and the first stop for those migrants who manage to survive the trip across the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn American pope\u2014the first in history\u2014who on July Fourth, the national holiday of the United States, chooses not to celebrate the birth of a nation and its borders but to stand on the wounded threshold of the Mediterranean,\u201d Rev. Antonio Spadaro, undersecretary of the Vatican\u2019s Dicastery for Culture and Education, told the Washington Post at the time. \u201cThis, in itself, is already an unofficial statement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis journey comes at a moment when the United States has made the closing of its doors to migrants a banner, and an American pope knows this all too well,\u201d Spadaro added. \u201cHis choice is not a head-on polemic\u2014Leo does not point fingers\u2014but a counterpoint. He reminds everyone that the dignity God gives to every person comes before the border.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leo also wrotea letter to the U.S. ahead of the anniversary on how, as a Catholic, \u201csafeguarding human life\u201d also means \u201cwelcoming, protecting \u200band assisting immigrants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Doing so \u201cwith compassion and generosity is not only an act of charity, but also a recognition of the \u2060dignity that belongs to every human person,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=4529\">Trump Admin Taps High-School Dropout to Hire Diplomats<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo XIV took a veiled shot at President Donald Trump while talking about his home country and immigration. Read more DHS Agents\u2019 Raging Texts About \u2018Stunt\u2019 Targeting Newsom Revealed In an NBC News interview that aired Wednesday, Leo, 70, was asked what he loves about America, and explained that his lineage has given him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pope Leo Takes Veiled Shot at Trump in First U.S. TV Interview - Nationwide Inter State Movers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=4534\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pope Leo Takes Veiled Shot at Trump in First U.S. TV Interview - Nationwide Inter State Movers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pope Leo XIV took a veiled shot at President Donald Trump while talking about his home country and immigration. 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