Louisiana Senator John Kennedy had to deliver some tough medicine to President Trump.
Kennedy knew the best method to accomplish this task.
And John Kennedy just delivered one startling piece of advice to Trump.
As Conservative Reboot reports:
When Republicans want to communicate their advice to President Trump, they often take to Fox News since they know the President is an avid watcher.
Senator Kennedy followed that playbook when he went on The Big Weekend Show and urged President Trump to end his verbal battle with Pope Leo over the Iran War.
“Look, there are too many distractions,” Kennedy stated. “I love the president like a taco — I don’t always agree with him, but I think he wants a better world. But I don’t agree with him about this new holy war with the pope.”
Kennedy went on to say that jousting with the Pope just let the fake news media direct focus away from Trump’s agenda and the story Republicans want to tell heading into the midterm election.
“I have great respect for Catholicism, and even if I didn’t, the pope is entitled to his opinion. Why do we want to fight with the pope?” Kennedy added. “It’s a distraction. And the press just sucks it up like a Hoover Deluxe [vacuum].”
Pope Leo then tried to de-escalate, telling reporters aboard his plane that the media invented a story that he was directly attacking the President every time he spoke out.
Leo went on to explain that some of his calls for peace or that God didn’t bless wars were written weeks before Trump began posting about him on Truth Social.
“There’s been a certain narrative that has not been accurate in all of its aspects, but because of the political situation created when, on the first day of the trip, the president of the United States made some comments about me,” Leo added.
“Much of what has been written since then has been more commentary on commentary, trying to interpret what has been said,” Leo continued.
Vice President J.D Vance applauded Pope Leo’s comments.
“I am grateful to Pope Leo for saying this. While the media narrative constantly gins up conflict–and yes, real disagreements have happened and will happen–the reality is often much more complicated,” Vance wrote on X.
“Pope Leo preaches the gospel, as he should, and that will inevitably mean he offers his opinions on the moral issues of the day. The President–and the entire administration–work to apply those moral principles in a messy world,” Vance added.
The feud between Leo and Trump heated up after Leo rebuked Trump for a Truth Social post warning that a “civilization will die” if Iran didn’t agree to a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Leo called that language “unacceptable.”
“This is truly not acceptable. Here, there are certainly questions of international law, but even more than this, a question of morality for the good of people,” Leo declared.
Leo then urged both sides to come to the table and negotiate a peace deal.
“So come back to the table, let’s talk, let’s look for solutions, peacefully,” Leo went on to say. “And let’s remember, especially, the innocent: children, the elderly, the sick, so many people who have already become or will become victims of this continued warfare, and to remind all that attacks on civilian infrastructure is against international law, but that it is also a sign of the hatred, the division, the destruction that human beings are capable of, and we all want to work for peace.”
Trump then blasted Leo as “weak” on foreign policy and crime.
Both Trump allies and the Pope himself see value in ratcheting down tensions, and Leo went out of his way to make clear that he doesn’t want a rivalry with Trump.