Sri Lanka, April 14 -- US President Donald Trump said Pope Leo XIV doesn't understand Iran's nuclear threat.

"He doesn't understand and shouldn't be talking about war, because he has no idea what's happening," he told the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera in a brief phone interview Tuesday.

Trump also criticized Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni for calling his comments about the pope "unacceptable."

"It's her who's unacceptable, because she doesn't care if Iran has a nuclear weapon and would blow up Italy in two minutes if they had the chance," the president said.

Trump, who's previously complimented Meloni, said he was "shocked" by the prime minister. "I thought she was brave, but I was wrong," he said, going on to lament It...