The pope on Sunday made a comment while aboard the papal plane on his way back to Italy from a trip to Morocco, according to Reuters.

called out political leaders the intention of building walls in their country and warned that they will “end up becoming prisoners of the walls they build.”

“Builders of walls, be they made of razor wire or bricks, will end up becoming prisoners of the walls they build,” he said. Francis continued, “I realize that with this problem (of migration), a government has a hot potato in its hands, but it must be resolved differently, humanely, not with razor wire.”

The pope did not mention any name in particular, but the two have a history of feud over border policy. Perhaps their most public disagreement came at the height of the 2016 elections when Francis seemed to question Trump’s Christian faith in connection to plans for a U.S.-Mexico wall.

Trump simply called the comments “disgraceful.”

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