Sean Hannity says Donald Trump is “right in challenging what this pope is suggesting”; “I don't blame the president for fighting back”
Hannity: “I don't think all war is horrible and evil at all. And by the way, biblically speaking, I don't think God viewed it that way.”
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Sean Hannity says Donald Trump is "right in challenging what this pope is suggesting"; "I don't blame the president for fighting back"
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From the April 13, 2026, edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Sean Hannity Show
SEAN HANNITY (HOST): I don't blame the president for fighting back, and I don't blame him at all.
I think that the president, you know, is right in challenging what this pope is suggesting here because the president went out there and said, Pope Leo's weak on crime, terrible on foreign policy. He talks about fear of the Trump administration, but he didn't mention fear that the Catholic Church and other Christian organizations had during COVID when they were arresting priests and ministers and everybody else for holding church services, even going outside and being 10 or 20 feet apart.
And I don't really want a pope who thinks that it's terrible that America attacked Venezuela, a country that was sending massive amounts of drugs to the United States or worse, emptying their prisons, including murderers and drug dealers and killers. And I don't want a pope criticizing the president of the United States because I'm doing exactly what I was elected to do, and that is lowering the crime rate in this country, creating the greatest, you know, and then he went on to list his successes.
And he said, the Pope should be thankful. Because as everyone knows, he was a shocking surprise, he doesn't think the Pope would have been elected. But if we're going to have selective outrage and we're going to get political commentary from the Pope now — the Pope, Lynda, correct me if I'm wrong, didn't the Pope talk about the need for peace? And didn't the Pope talk about the need for a ceasefire and how war is horrible and evil? I don't think all war is horrible and evil at all. And by the way, biblically speaking, I don't think God viewed it that way. And when I brought this up the other day, some people got upset when I said this.