President Donald Trump is feuding with the far-left pope, Pope Leo XIV, and a report that circulated online alleged that the reason that the pope got involved with the situation in the first place is that he had met with longtime Obama advisor George Axelrod, known for his radically far-left views.
As background, the report that Axelrod met with the pope exploded online over the course of Tuesday April 14 and Wednesday April 15, and the fact that they meetin occured was confirmed by Axelrod himself. While it is not known for certain what they discussed, many online found it exceedingly suspicious that the meeting occurred shortly before Pope Leo XIV went on the warpath against President Trump.
In one such post on X, one which came near-immediately after the Axelrod meeting, the pope said, “God does not bless any conflict. Anyone who is a disciple of Christ, the Prince of Peace, is never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs.” Many took that as a direct attack on the president and questioned if Pope Leo had been influenced by Democratic Party operatives to make the comment.
For example, CNN analyst and commentator Hal Lambert noted, during a panel show on the network, “David Axelrod goes and visits Pope Leo last week. They’re talking about Obama going to visit. Pope Leo is from Chicago. All of a sudden, now Pope Leo is out attacking Trump and the policies of the United States and Israel.”
Continuing, Lambert questioned why the pope would be meeting with a top-level Democratic Party operative and Obama ally, saying, “Axelrod is the chief strategist for Obama. The pope was saying he’s not political. Why is he meeting with the chief strategist for both Obama’s campaign and in the White House?”
Leading the charge on online was Jesús Enrique Rosas, a Venezuelan political commentator and faithful Catholic living in Europe. He, posting about the longtime Obama ally meeting with the Vicar of Christ, said, ” So the Pope met with David Axelrod last week. David Axelrod.”
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Noting just how absurd and jaw-dropping that is, Rosas reminded readers that Axelrod was “Obama’s campaign architect. A man who is not Catholic, has never met a pope before, and whose entire career has been engineering political narratives for the American left.”
Further, he noted that the pope then immediately went on the attack against President Trump after that meeting with the Obama Advisor, saying, “And then, by pure coincidence, the Pope immediately started lobbing shots at the Trump administration, and three US Cardinals popped up on 60 Minutes doing the same thing. All organically, I’m sure.”
Noting how angry he is as a practicing Roman Catholic to see the church turned into a political mouthpiece for the left, Rosas then said, “I’m a practicing Catholic. I need you to understand that part. But in my opinion, Trump has all the right to lash out at him. Maybe you’ll disagree, but in the end, Trump talks like Trump. Water is wet. I’m talking about MY Church being run like a DNC satellite office but with a golden throne.”
And, after noting how “Pope Francis was bad” but “Leo has turned out to be worse” because of the primacy he has put on his personal politics, and how Pope Leo refuses to protect Christians around the world, or indeed to do anything other than push platitutdes and “interfaith gestures”, Rosas noted that this was obviously a political campaign by which Axelrod and others were trying to make Trump unpopular with American Catholics. He said, “You get the Pope to pick a fight with Trump, and suddenly millions of conservative Catholics have to choose between their faith and their vote.”
General Mike Flynn, commenting on Rosas’s post, said, “The left are so revealing! Axelrod goes to see the pope and three things occur! Pope attacks Trump, cardinals do 60 min and pope goes to mosque! More to come! American Catholics better wake up.”
Another commenter argued that the highest levels of the Catholic Church because he cut off their funding, saying, “🚨Why are leaders of the Catholic Church anti-ICE and anti-Trump? Catholic Charities and the USCCB raked in over $2.3 billion in federal taxpayer funds under Biden for migrant shelter, transport, case management, and logistics. Local affiliates saw revenues explode (some from tens of millions to hundreds of millions annually, heavily government-dependent). It coincided with record border crossings and catch-and-release policies.”