Fox News contributor Raymond Arroyo on Donald Trump: “This was a sloppy and frankly disrespectful attack on the Pope”
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From the April 13, 2026, edition of Fox News' The Ingraham Angle
RAYMOND ARROYO (GUEST): Let's start with the president. This was a sloppy and frankly disrespectful attack on the Pope. I don't think he should have issued this kind of long ad hominem. He didn't get any points for doing this. There's nothing good that comes of it. So, you know, he shouldn't have gone down this path. On the Pope side, the Pope said he's not a politician. That's true. He shouldn't be.
But I understand in the president's reading of this, when you have a pope saying, call your congressman, call your senator, to get them to advocate for peace and oppose this war. When the pope says, as they did on Easter Sunday, let those who have weapons lay them down, Laura, that sounds political, particularly when you've got Swiss guardsmen with arms protecting you —
LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): And a wall.
ARROYO: — and I don't remember the Pope saying that about China. So, these are personal opinions. I think they're talking past each other. But, this thing is way out control.
INGRAHAM: Well, he withdrew that post, right? He deleted it? One of the posts that he put out?
ARROYO: No, no, no, no, no. He withdraw an image you'll see in a moment but not that post.
INGRAHAM: Oh, an image, yeah. So, you think this has been kind of intentionally kind of created by the media?
ARROYO: Well, yeah. Last night on 60 Minutes, Norah O Donnell featured three left-of-center cardinals.
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ARROYO: Clearly the president was watching this. Norah O'Donnell has now even confirmed, she talked to the president. He was watching. You've heard of rope-a-doping? This is pope-a-doping. Norah O'Donnell seems to have known what she was doing.
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ARROYO: It feels like they were trying to provoke the president into a reaction and he fell into the trap.