New Pope Spent Years Reposting Criticisms Of President Trump’s Policies

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The newly elected Pope Robert Francis Prevost, who has since been renamed Pope Leo XIV, spent the last several years reposting criticisms of President Trump’s policies.

Robert Francis Prevost spent the last several years retweeting posts on his official X account, @drprevost, dozens of articles and posts critical of President Trump and Vice President JD Vance.

His most recent post before being elected as the new pope was a repost that criticized Trump’s partnership with El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele on their plan to deport illegal migrants.

Another post retweeted by Prevost read, “As Trump & Bukele use Oval to Feds’ illicit deportation of a US resident… once an undoc-ed Salvadorean himself, now-DC auxiliary bishop Evelio Menjivar asks, ‘Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed? How can you stay quiet?’”

Check out what The New York Post reported:

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV spent years amplifying criticism of President Trump’s policies on social media — with the Catholic Church’s first American leader taking particular aim at the Republican’s hard-line immigration stance.

Leo XIV, until Thursday known as Robert Francis Prevost, 69, shared or retweeted the opinions of colleagues using his verified account @drprevost on X, formerly known as Twitter.

His final X post before being elected by the Conclave in the Sistine Chapel was a retweet of a message from Philadelphia-based Catholic commentator Rocco Palmo, who on April 14 slammed Trump’s partnership with El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele on deportation of illegal migrants.

“As Trump & Bukele use Oval to [laugh emoji] Feds’ illicit deportation of a US resident… once an undoc-ed Salvadorean himself, now-DC [auxiliary bishop] Evelio [Menjivar] asks, ‘Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed? How can you stay quiet?’” the tweet reads.

On Feb. 3, Prevost shared a link to a National Catholic Reporter article headlined “JD Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn’t ask us to rank our love for others.”

Check out what The Hill reported:

Cardinal Robert Prevost, who became the first American pope Thursday, frequently used social media to subtly push back on the Trump administration and its policies, a review of his posts on the social media platform X shows.
Prevost, now known as Pope Leo XIV, shared columns that disputed Vice President Vance’s interpretation of Christian “ordo amoris,” ranking order of love, in February; linked to an article that lambasted Trump’s “anti-immigrant rhetoric” as dangerous in 2015; and reposted messages against the death penalty, migrant deportations and Congress’s inaction on gun laws after deadly shootings.

He discussed his approach to and careful use of social media in a 2023 interview with the Vatican News Service.
“Social media can be an important tool to communicate the Gospel message reaching millions of people,” Prevost said. “At the same time, the world today, which is constantly changing, presents situations where we really have to think several times before speaking or before writing a message on Twitter, in order to answer or even just to ask questions in a public form, in full view of everyone.”

“Sometimes there is a risk of fueling divisions and controversy,” he added.



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