Maria Shriver He criticized the President a lot Donald Trump with his harsh criticism Pope Leo XIV.
“We all deserve better, and we can all speak up and demand better,” Shriver, 70, wrote on Instagram Monday, March 13. “The job of President requires calmness, compassion, and the ability to not respond to anything and everything you don’t like. We deserve better!”
Trump attacked Pope Leo XIV, 70, using the Truth Social platform on Sunday, April 13, calling the religious leader “weak on crime and bad on foreign policy.” (Leo — formerly known as Cardinal Robert Prevost — became the first American pope in the Catholic Church’s 2,000-year history in March 2025.)
“[The pope] it talks about the ‘fear’ of the Trump Administration, but it doesn’t talk about the FEAR of the Catholic Church, and all other Christian organizations, that they had during the time of COVID when they arrested priests, ministers and everyone, by holding Church services, even going outside, and being ten to twenty meters apart, “said Trump, 79, complained on Sunday.
The president continued, “I don’t want a Pope criticizing the President of the United States because I did exactly what I was elected to do, IN A LANDSLIDE, set a Record Low in Crime, and I did the Greatest Stock Market in History.”
Shriver – a devout Roman Catholic – has been a frequent critic of Trump over the years. This time, he not only opposed President Trump’s feud with the Pope but also his decision to post a picture of an AI posing as Jesus Christ. (The AI image was heavily criticized by Trump’s political opponents and was later removed. President Trump later said he thought the image showed him “as a doctor and related to him.) [the] Red Cross.”)
“I was offended by this picture and I was also surprised by that [Trump] he was attacking the Pope, a deeply religious man [and] a man of peace,” Shriver explained on Instagram on Monday.[The Pope] he has used his voice in a public-spirited way, in a peaceful way, in a way that rises above the noise, in a way that makes us all think about the cost of war, the value of war and whether this is something we really want to participate in, which is his job.”
(The Pope urged the Trump administration to end the war in Iran during his Easter message on April 5, calling the conflict an “illusion of omnipotence” and “the rhetoric of death.”)
“I know a lot of people who voted for this President and I know they didn’t vote for this,” Shriver emphasized. “I know many of them to be good and kind people. … This is clearly a dangerous, dishonest person. ‘Unrepentant’ doesn’t even begin to cover it.”
Shriver argued that America desperately needed a “calm” wartime leader [and] it can control their emotions.”
“This is a request to the people who are there as well [working] with him,” Shriver continued. “Come on! Aren’t you worried about what’s going on? The whole world is worried… You can do something to stop this. You can do something to teach someone about controlling emotions, about the fact that this is not just about them. This is about all of us.”
He said, “We deserve the best. Those who voted for this man and those who didn’t vote for him! … We deserve someone in this job who is safe, consistent, reliable and who will control his emotions. Who does not describe himself as Jesus Christ.”
Amid the ongoing conflict between the White House and the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV assured reporters on Monday that he would not be afraid.
President Donald Trump has more plans for the Kennedy Center after working to rebrand it. “The Trump Kennedy Center will close on July 4, 2026, in honor of our Nation’s 250th Anniversary, when we will simultaneously begin construction on a new and spectacular Entertainment Complex,” Trump, 79, wrote on The Truth. […]
“I am not afraid of Trump’s treatment or speaking out loud about the message of the Gospel, which is what I believe I came to do,” said the Pope.
This time, Trump refused to back down from his criticism of Pope Leo XIV at a press conference at the White House on Monday.
“[The Pope] it was the exact opposite of what I do about Iran, and you can’t have a nuclear Iran. Pope Leo would not be happy with the result,” Trump told reporters at the White House. [going to apologize].”
Us Weekly has reached out to the White House for comment on Shriver’s video.
