{"id":23449,"date":"2026-05-31T06:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T06:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-calls-out-pope-leo-for-meeting-with-useless-chicago-mayor\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T06:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T06:22:14","slug":"trump-calls-out-pope-leo-for-meeting-with-useless-chicago-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-calls-out-pope-leo-for-meeting-with-useless-chicago-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump calls out Pope Leo for meeting with \u2018useless\u2019 Chicago mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump swiped at Pope Leo XIV and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) on Saturday after the two met in Rome, saying someone at the Vatican should have advised the pope not to meet Johnson because he is &ldquo;useless.&rdquo; &ldquo;Someone should explain to the Pope that the Mayor of Chicago is useless&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5902784-trump-slams-pope-johnson\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump swiped at Pope Leo XIV and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) on Saturday after the two met in Rome, saying someone at the Vatican should have advised the pope not to meet Johnson because he is &ldquo;useless.&rdquo; &ldquo;Someone should explain to the Pope that the Mayor of Chicago is useless&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}