President Donald Trump said he was “shocked” that Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni criticized his comments about Pope Leo XIV.

After Trump called Pope Leo “weak” on Sunday and criticized him for his comments on the war in Iran and on deportations, Meloni called Trump’s words “unacceptable.”

Trump retorted that Meloni is “unacceptable.”

“Do Italians like the fact that your prime minister isn’t giving us any help to get oil?” Trump said in a phone interview with an Italian news outlet Tuesday. “Do people like her? I can’t imagine. I’m shocked by her. I thought she was brave, but I was wrong.”

Trump said he hasn’t spoken to the right-leaning politician in a long time.

Meloni, who leads the Brothers of Italy party, said it’s normal for the pope to comment on world events.

“The Pope is the head of the Catholic Church, and it is right and normal that he calls for peace and condemns every form of war,” she said.

Trump and Meloni previously had a warm relationship, with Meloni visiting Mar-a-Lago as the president’s guest last year. Meloni was the only foreign leader invited to Trump’s January 2025 inauguration.

However, Italy did not allow American bombers to refuel in Sicily during the Iran operation.

“When we don’t agree, we must say it. And this time, we do not agree,” Meloni said of the war in Iran.

Trump said Meloni “doesn’t care if Iran has a nuclear weapon and would blow up Italy in two minutes if it had the chance.”

“Meloni doesn’t want to help us with NATO, she doesn’t want to help us get rid of the nuclear weapon,” he said. “She’s very different from what I thought.”

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A clip shows Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet (D-MI), now a congresswoman but then a Michigan state senator, making light of the Michigan State shooter during a State Senate hearing just weeks after the tragedy, while victims remained hospitalized.

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The Trump administration is intensifying efforts to identify illegal aliens and crack down on fraud within migrant communities, including a forthcoming executive order that would require banks to collect customers' citizenship information.

Although the latest government figures confirm that America has the most secure border in history, the damage of Biden’s catastrophic free for all immigration policies are ongoing with hardcore criminals operating inside the United States and terrorizing even the nation’s “safest” communities. In a recent example, a Mexican illegal alien who had twice been deported ran an illicit operation that distributed drugs and machine guns from a house in south Texas. His name is Carlos Alberto Garcia-Guajardo and federal authorities confirm he acted as a broker for selling narcotics and weapons in Laredo, Texas, a Mexican town that appears on the FBI’s list of safest cities. In fact, the agency says crime rates in border cities are lower than the national average with Laredo among the leaders.

Nevertheless, in that safe border town an illegal immigrant welcomed into the U.S. under Biden emulated the “gangster” lifestyle, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ), which also prosecuted Garcia-Guajardo’s partner in crime Fernando Patino, also an illegal immigrant. Patino, who is 32, pleaded guilty to his criminal charges, but the 34-year-old Garcia-Guajardo went to trial and was convicted by a jury on all 12 counts after less than three hours of deliberation. This month a judge sentenced Garcia-Guajardo, who was last ordered deported in July 2024, to over four decades in prison and Patino to 30 years followed by five years of supervised release. Garcia-Guajardo evidently received a bigger sentence because he was the leader of the criminal enterprise that involved countless drugs and weapons and because he committed other dangerous offenses such as discharging firearms near children and from moving vehicles.

At trial, the jury heard that Garcia-Guajardo and Patino sold cocaine and firearms, including several machine guns, out of a residential home in Laredo, the supposedly safe border city. Testimony included details of the undercover operation that exposed the illegal scheme. Around the beginning of 2025 Patino and Garcia-Guajardo began selling cocaine and machine guns to undercover agents while using the sale of the narcotics and firearms to negotiate additional future deals, according to the DOJ. “Evidence also showed Garcia-Guajardo and Patino not only sold drugs and weapons but fired them indiscriminately within their neighborhood and conducted extensive drug trafficking,” the agency reveals, adding that “both Garcia-Guajardo and Patino drove around Laredo, firing various firearms from the windows of their vehicle.” The alien criminals also used children to test various weapons, including machine guns, and several videos show them drinking excessively and using drugs during the firearm evaluations.

The crackdown of this alarming criminal enterprise run by illegal aliens in what reportedly is one of America’s safest cities is part of the Trump administration’s Operation Take Back America. The nationwide initiative was launched last spring to repel the invasion of illegal immigration, eliminate drug cartels and transnational criminal organizations (TCOs), and protect American communities from perpetrators of violent crime. The measure empowers federal prosecutors and law enforcement officials around the country to protect their communities from ongoing threats by charging the most serious, readily provable offenses. Under Operation Take Back America federal prosecutors in the southern district of Texas have filed another 353 cases this month involving immigration and border security with the majority of charges—212—against criminal aliens who had previously been deported. Many have prior felony convictions in the U.S. involving narcotics and violent crimes and dozens are accused of engaging in human smuggling. “Enhanced enforcement both at the border and in the interior of the district have yielded aliens engaged in unlawful activity or with serious criminal histories, including convictions for human trafficking, sexual assault and violence against children,” reads the statement issued by the DOJ’s southern district of Texas announcing the latest cases.

Operation Take Back America hit the ground running with federal prosecutors in southwestern border districts charging over 6,000 illegal immigrants with crimes in the first few months alone. More than half of the cases were handled in Texas where hundreds of the migrants charged for illegally reentering the U.S. had felony convictions for crimes involving drugs, firearms, and sexual offenses. Among them was a previously deported Mexican national with a federal drug trafficking conviction and a Honduran migrant convicted of aggravated kidnapping and sentenced to five years in prison.

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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio described the Israel-Lebanon talks in Washington as a historic opportunity, with Israeli Ambassador Yechiel Leiter and Lebanese Ambassador Nada Hamadeh Moawad attending. The meeting focuses on moving forward amid complex regional tensions and a fragile Middle East ceasefire. WATCH: [TRANSCRIPT] QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, why did you decide to join? […]

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A police dog named "Pub" helped federal agents sniff out 2 massive cash seizures amounting to nearly $75,000 in undeclared cash in the first quarter of 2026. 

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Increasingly unpopular Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger has deferred consideration of several extreme gun control bills until after the state’s referendum on Democrats’ gerrymandering scheme. The all but certain political move by the commonwealth’s leftist governor was announced Tuesday, when Spanberger revealed that she had sent the bills in question back to the Democrat-run General Assembly […]

Pope Leo XIV’s relentless and morally confused attacks on the Orange Bad Man have failed to damage the president’s standing with church-going Catholics, who give Trump a 58 percent job approval rating.

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For AI startup Just Like Me, the Word of God isn’t enough. No, what you need is to talk to an artificial avatar of Jesus. Or Buddha, for that matter. […]

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A fifth woman accused Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., of sexual misconduct on Tuesday, after the embattled congressman announced his resignation from the House of Representatives and said he was suspending his campaign for governor of California.