Overnight, the US president accused Pope Leo of being "WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy" and claimed that "if I wasn't in the White House, Leo wouldn't be in the Vatican".
In a spree of late-night Truth Social posts - including Trump-branded hotels on the Moon and other X posts from supporters - Mr Trump also shared an AI image of himself as Jesus Christ without comment.
He faced criticism over the image and removed it later on Monday.
When asked about the now-deleted post, Mr Trump insisted: "It's supposed to be me as a doctor making people better."
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Speaking on The World with Yalda Hakim former Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi hit out at Mr Trump, saying the AI image was "crazy" and as a Catholic he thinks it is "blasphemous".
The senator went on to say the image was "ridiculous", "silly" and said the president had "destroyed his credibility" by posting the picture.
Responses on Truth Social were atypically critical, with some followers urging the president to take the post down.
Brilyn Hollyhand, who served as the co-chair of the Republican National Committee Youth Advisory Council, wrote on X: "This is gross blasphemy. Faith is not a prop. You don't need to portray yourself as a savior when your record should speak for itself."
Riley Gaines, a former collegiate swimmer and critic of transgender athletes in women's sports, who has appeared with Mr Trump at rallies, said she could not understand why he had posted the image.
"Does he actually think this?" she wrote. "Either way, two things are true. 1) a little humility would serve him well 2) God shall not be mocked."
It's not the first time that the US president has shared AI images of himself: Last year, as Mr Trump prepared to order the National Guard to deploy in Chicago, he posted an AI-generated parody image of himself from Apocalypse Now.
Mr Trump also defended his criticism of the Pope.
The president said: "He was very much against what I'm doing with regard to Iran. And you cannot have a nuclear Iran."
He said Pope Leo "would not be happy with the end result", before adding: "You have hundreds of millions of people dead, and it's not going to happen."
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Earlier, speaking to Sky's US partner NBC News, Pope Leo said "I have no fear of the Trump administration", adding that his appeals for peace were rooted in the gospel.
"We are not politicians," he said. "We don't deal with foreign policy with the same perspective he might understand it, but I do believe in the message of the gospel, as a peacemaker."
The Pope also told Reuters aboard the papal flight to Algiers that "I don't want to get into a debate with him... I don't think that the message of the Gospel is meant to be abused in the way that some people are doing".
Sky News has contacted the Holy See for comment on the post and Mr Trump's remarks overnight.
But while he is now set to lead a majority government after ousting Viktor Orban, Mr Magyar was once a loyal ally of the outgoing prime minister.
The 45-year-old served as a foreign affairs official under Mr Orban's 2010 administration before resigning from the Fidesz party in 2024 over a scandal involving a presidential pardon for a man convicted of helping cover up a sex abuse scandal at a children's home.
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The centre-right Tisza Party emerged as the strongest opposition party in Hungary after the 2024 European Parliament elections.
Mr Magyar has pledged to crack down on corruption, unlock billions of euros in frozen European Union funds, and tax the wealthiest, while reforming Hungary's crumbling healthcare system.
Most independent polls leading up to election day put Mr Magyar ahead of Mr Orban, and preliminary election results project that Tisza won 136 seats in Hungary's 199-member parliament.
The election saw a record 77.8% turnout, the highest ever in a Hungarian election, according to the country's national election commission, which says the "election process was conducted lawfully and smoothly across the country".
Voters in Hungary were angered after three years of economic stagnation and soaring living costs, along with oligarchs close to the government earning greater wealth.
Mr Magyar ran a "positive campaign" on boosting the economy, restoring healthcare and lowering the cost of living, according to Moscow correspondent Ivor Bennett.
"All of these domestic issues really chimed with people's needs here. They were desperate for change and fed up with the Orban government," he said, adding that Mr Orban ran a campaign of fear.
'Real blow for Putin'
Bennett said EU leaders will also be delighted to see the back of Mr Orban, who he described as a "Russian Trojan horse acting in Moscow's interest".
"He would consistently try to block aid to Ukraine, try to derail and slow down sanctions on Russia", he said.
"So for Vladimir Putin, a real blow. But for Europe, for Brussels, this is a moment to celebrate. Because that persistent thorn in their side has finally been removed after 16 long, long years."
Mr Magyar said during the election campaign that voters had to choose between "East and West", warning that Putin ally Mr Orban and his confrontational stance towards Brussels would take the country further away from the European mainstream.
With Mr Magyar in charge, many European leaders will now be hoping for an end to Hungary's adversarial role inside the EU, possibly paving the way for a £78.4bn (€90bn) loan to war-battered Ukraine, which was previously blocked by Mr Orban.
In his first remarks after the election, Mr Magyar promised his government would work for a free, European and humane Hungary after years of claims of corruption and shrinking freedoms.
He thanked those who voted for him and added: "As prime minister, I will work every day and every hour of the day for our country's security and development, as well as for the wellbeing of the Hungarian people."
Sex tape blackmail threat
In February, Mr Magyar accused the Fidesz Party of "Russian-type" blackmail, using a secretly-recorded sex tape showing consensual relations between him and a now ex-girlfriend at a party nearly two years ago.
"Even in Europe, it is unprecedented for a ruling party to attempt to discredit, blackmail and neutralise its main political opponent by secretly recording their sexual acts using illegal methods and threatening to make the recordings public," he wrote on X.
In an accompanying video, he said: "Of course, I don't know how the images and audio recordings illegally recorded in the apartment with secret service equipment will be manipulated afterwards."
He said there were what appeared to be drugs at the party, but denied taking any and offered to do a drug test.
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Mr Magyar said a photo of the bedroom the footage was filmed in with the caption "coming soon" was sent to Hungarian media. The photo was also published with the words "once upon a time..." on a website apparently named after Mark Radnai, the vice president of Tisza, who denied any involvement.
Tisza said in a statement it stands by Mr Magyar and that it "will not assist in manipulating politics with secretly recorded materials and threats".
Rosie Slater, 33, used her connections with "wealthy, rich and famous people" to con 11 people who lost an estimated £4,000 in total, Staffordshire Police said.
Slater, who admitted 11 counts of fraud by false representation at a hearing in December, sat in front of the glass dock at North Staffordshire Justice Centre on Monday.
Prosecutor Kyle Padley said Slater, formerly of Betley in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, told her victims she had access to Oasis tickets, including the Wembley Stadium VIP box.
One man, who purchased 15 tickets from her, set up two WhatsApp groups and invited friends he thought might be potential buyers, the court heard.
In those groups, Slater offered a price of £130 per ticket, and some people sent her the money directly and booked non-refundable hotel rooms for the tour dates.
Mr Padley told the court: "It later came out the defendant was lying."
He said she was then interviewed by police.
"She said she started with good intent then it escalated out of her control," he said.
The defendant was handed a 12-month community order and is required to pay a £40 fine and compensation of £776.98 to five victims.
Some of her victims have already been refunded, the court heard.
Slater was also told to pay a £114 victim surcharge and costs of £85.
In addition, she must complete 30 rehabilitation activity requirement days.
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Simon Leech, defending Slater, told the court "she did not spend this money extravagantly" and used it to pay off household debts, including council tax payments.
Detective Constable David Stubbs, of Staffordshire Police, told LBC: "She does have connections with some of our wealthy, rich and famous people and has been fortunate enough to previously attend concerts, and due to this she was able to convince her victims that she had credible access to both the tickets and the VIP box at Wembley Stadium.
"No evidence has been found of any coercion. She has acted, we believe, purely out of greed, exploiting her connections for personal gain.
"This has left the victims obviously very upset. It's caused a lot of anger and hurt, really, particularly as she used some of the victims to attract more victims."
A Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) investigation was launched in 2024 into the way Ticketmaster sold Oasis tickets.
It found the ticket website did not tell fans waiting in long queues that standing tickets were being sold at two different prices, and that prices would rise as soon as the cheap tickets sold out.
Ticketmaster sold some "platinum" tickets at almost two and a half times the price of standard tickets, without sufficient explanation that these offered no extra benefits in the same areas of the venue, the CMA said.
In response, the CMA said Ticketmaster must now tell fans 24 hours in advance if there is a tiered pricing system in operation - as there was for Oasis standing tickets.
Tickets for the band's reunion tour, their first gigs in 16 years, were also listed on secondary ticket resale websites for thousands of pounds.
A 31-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of child neglect and being a person in charge of a dog dangerously out of control resulting in death following the incident in Redcar last Thursday.
Cleveland Police also said on Monday a 36-year-old man had been arrested on suspicion of being a person in charge of a dog dangerously out of control resulting in death.
Both have since been released on conditional bail.
Neither of them are connected to the family of the baby, Cleveland Police said.
Police were called to a property in the Dormanstown area on Thursday at about 1.30pm after officers received reports of concern for the baby.
The infant died at the home on Hardale Grove.
Upon arriving there, armed officers shot a dog in the street, and another dog located at the property was recovered and later put down.
Both dogs were assessed to not have been prohibited breeds.
"An investigation into the girl's death is ongoing and at this stage officers are treating it as a result of a dog bite," Cleveland Police said.
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Last Thursday, police arrested a 45-year-old man on suspicion of being in charge of a dog dangerously out of control causing injury resulting in death.
He was also released on conditional bail.
A 31-year-old woman sustained an injury to her arm as a result of a dog bite and was treated in hospital.
After the incident, Chief Superintendent Rachel Stockdale, head of local policing at Cleveland Police, said the force's thoughts were with the child's family after the "tragic and distressing" events.
"I want to take this opportunity to request that their privacy is respected during this difficult time," she said.
"There will continue to be a scene in place at the property alongside a visible policing presence as the investigation is ongoing."
The officer said anyone with information or footage about the incident should come forward.
District Judge Darrin P. Gayles in Florida wrote in the order that Mr Trump had failed to make the argument that the article was published with the intent to be malicious, but gave the US president a chance to file an amended complaint.
In a post on Truth Social, Mr Trump called the lawsuit, filed in July last year, "historic legal action" which he said was filed on behalf of himself and all Americans who will "no longer tolerate the abusive wrongdoings of the Fake News Media".
"I hope Rupert and his 'friends' are looking forward to the many hours of depositions and testimonies they will have to provide in this case," he wrote after launching the defamation lawsuit.
The WSJ's report focused on a letter the publication said Mr Trump wrote as part of a collection Jeffrey Epstein's former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, planned to give him as a 50th birthday present in 2003.
Mr Trump claimed that the letter he allegedly wrote to paedophile Epstein was "fake" and said he would sue the "ass off" Mr Murdoch after the WSJ published the story last July.
The WSJ said the letter featured several lines of typewritten text, concluding with: "May every day be another wonderful secret."
The text was framed by what appeared to be a hand-drawn outline of a naked woman, the WSJ claimed. The letter is also said to have featured the signature "Donald".
Mr Trump immediately denied writing the letter, which was subsequently released publicly by Congress via subpoenaed records from Epstein's estate, when the report was published.
"The Wall Street Journal printed a FAKE letter, supposedly to Epstein," he wrote on Truth Social at the time.
"These are not my words, not the way I talk. Also, I don't draw pictures. I told Rupert Murdoch it was a Scam, that he shouldn't print this Fake Story. But he did, and now I'm going to sue his ass off, and that of his third rate newspaper."
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Lawyers for the WSJ and Mr Murdoch had asked the judge to rule that the article's statements were true and therefore couldn't be defamatory, but the judge wrote in his order that "whether President Trump was the author of the Letter or Epstein's friend are questions of fact that cannot be determined at this stage of the litigation".
This is the latest blow in the Trump administration's efforts to manage the fallout over its release of the Epstein files and the president's attempts to use the legal system to chill reporting he finds critical of him.
Reuters reported that a spokesman for Trump's legal team said he would refile the lawsuit.
A spokesperson for Dow Jones, which publishes the Journal, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.