First Baptist Church senior pastor Robert Jeffress claims the president has a “better understanding” of the Bible than Pope Leo
Jeffress defended Trump’s Iran strikes as biblically justified and said the president understands government’s role better than Leo, as the Vatican dispute widened.
- On Saturday, Pastor Robert Jeffress of the First Baptist Church in Dallas told Fox News that President Donald Trump has a "better understanding" of the Bible than Pope Leo XIV, particularly regarding government's role in warfare.
- The rift between the President and Pontiff escalated after Leo criticized US-Israeli strikes on Iranian nuclear sites as "alarming news" in June 2025, and labeled the administration's immigration policies "extremely disrespectful" last year.
- Jeffress justified Trump's actions by framing government's role as protecting citizens from evil, citing Romans 13. "The role of the church is to point people to faith in Jesus Christ, but the role of government is to protect citizens from evil-doers," he told Fox News.
- Last Thursday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited the Vatican for over 45 minutes of "cordial talks" aimed at "cooling the rhetoric," though the Pontiff responded that critics should "do so truthfully."
- These comments signal that a portion of the President's evangelical base has no intention of moderating its stance, regardless of recent diplomatic efforts, illustrating how deeply theological the Trump-Pope Leo dispute has become.
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MAGA Pastor: Trump Knows Bible Better Than The Pope
The Daily Beast reports: One of Donald Trump’s most loyal and long-standing evangelical supporters believes the president knows the Bible better than the leader of the world’s largest organized religion. “It looks like President Trump has a better understanding of what the Bible teaches about the role of government than the pope has,” Pastor Robert Jeffress said on Fox News on Friday, speaking on the topic of Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s Thu…
Donald Trump attacks the Pope like hardly any other leader before. But there is no conflict between politics and religion behind it - but exactly the opposite. In the background is an American Christianity that pursues dangerous goals.
Donald Trump understands the Bible better than the Pope. Baptist pastor Robert Jeffress claims so. – I'm glad the president isn't backing down at all, he says in an interview with Fox News.
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