When Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was selected as Pope on Thursday, President Trump quickly offered the first pontiff born in the United States a congratulation of Heary.
“It is a great honor to realize that he is the first American Pope,” Trump said in a statement. “What emotion.”
But some of Mr. Trump’s most fervent followers do not seem to feel the emotion.
Almost immediately after Cardinal Prevost, a native of the Chicago area who spent decades ministering in Peru, left the conclave as the new Pope and Tok the name Leo XIV, the leaders of the Maga Movement begged to throw him as an enemy.
Laura Loomer, an extreme right activist who has a significant influence with Mr. Trump, written on Thursday on social networks that Leo’s style would be similar to that of his predecessor, Pope Francis, whom he described as “Anti-Trump edges, anti-muga, pro opening and a total Marxist.”
“Catholics have nothing good to wait,” he wrote. “Only another Marxist puppet in the Vatican.”
And on Friday, the guests in the popular “War Room” podcast of the right of Steve Bannon accumulated, emitting Leo as a progressive figure and a continuation of Francis, an open voice for migrants who disagreed with Mr. Trump.
Mr. Bannon, one of the president’s main allies, told the BBC that the selection was a “child of the amazing”, and added that “there will definitely be friction” between the new Pope and Mr. Trump.
Few predicted that Cardinal Premost would be chosen, but Mr. Bannon was perhaps less stunned than cake. In April, he said in “Piers morgan uncensored” that he believed that the cardinal “unfortunately” was more likely to become the Pope than the observers. He cited Leo’s ideological proximity to Francis and his connections with Latin America.
Much of Leo’s personal policy are uncle. Over the years, he has voted in Illinois several times, issuing a ballot in the absence in last year’s presidential elections and voting in three Republican primaries such as 2012, according to the records of Will County, who is Outsid Chicago.
Records do not show you to vote in democratic primaries in that period of time. Illinois has open primaries, and voters there do not declare a party when they register to vote.
But the new Pope had apparently expressed concern with Trump’s immigration platform. A social media account under his name published an article in February that said that Vice President JD Vance had misunderstood the Christian doctrine to support Trump’s mass deportation effort. (The New York Times did not verify independently if he directed the account).
Leo’s brother, John Prevost, told the New York Times on Thursday that he knew “for a fact” that the new Pope “was not happy with what is happening with immigration.”
On other issues, Leo has expressed positions that most perfectly agree with those of many US social conservatives. In a speech of 2012 to bishops, the group expressed about what he called the “homosexual lifestyle” and denounced aspects of modern culture that agitated “sympathy for beliefs and practices that disagree with the Gospel.”
Francis, who died two weeks ago, had a tense relationship with the American Catholic conservatives, who felt marginalized who became 12 years old.
Francis spoke strongly against Trump sometimes. Duration The first mandate of Mr. Trump, Francis said that a policy of separating migrant children from their parents on the border between the United States and Mexico was “immoral.” And warned that who closed the borders “to become prisoners of the walls they build.”
Joan Francis Plum, Leo’s cousin, said in an interview on Thursday that the new Pope “would be like Francis.”
“I think that’s why Francis called him to the Vatican, because they were similar,” he said about his cousin, who was elevated to an influential Vatican office in 2023. He was chosen by him. It is very loving. “
