Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, who became the first American-born Pope, has a long history of retweeting criticisms of President Trump.

As WLT previously reported, Robert Francis Prevost, who has since been renamed Pope Leo XIV, spent the last several years retweeting posts on his official X account, @drprevost, dozens of articles and posts critical of President Trump.

The new Pope has also retweeted posts that have criticized JD Vance, who is a Catholic.

In February of this year, the newly elected Pope retweeted a post that read, “JD Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn’t ask us to rank our love for others.”

The retweet was in repsonse to Vance stating in a Fox news interview in Feburay, “There is a Christian concept that you love your family and then you love your neighbor, and then you love your community, and then you love your fellow citizens, and then after that, prioritize the rest of the world. A lot of the far-left has completely inverted that.”

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Per Reuters:

The first U.S. pope has some thoughts about the American president.

Pope Leo XIV, who was chosen on Thursday, has a history of criticizing President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance’s policies, according to posts on the X account of Robert Prevost, his name before he ascended to be head of the Catholic Church.

In February he reposted an article with the following headline: “JD Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn’t ask us to rank our love for others.”

In April, when Trump met with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele to discuss using a prison where alleged human rights abuses took place to jail suspected gang members flown from the United States, Prevost reposted a comment that included: “Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”

Reuters could not immediately verify who operated the account, which made its first post in 2011. Reuters reached out to the Vatican, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Chiclayo in Peru, where Prevost was based for years, and the Peruvian Embassy to the Holy See to confirm the authenticity of the account, which has the handle @drprevost, opens new tab and includes posts calling for prayers for the late Pope Francis in his final months.

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.

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Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost addresses the crowd on the main central loggia balcony of the St Peter’s Basilica for the first time, after the cardinals ended the conclave, in The Vatican, on May 8, 2025.

“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.

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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.”

That article took issue with remarks Trump’s vice president made during a Jan. 29 Fox News interview, in which he stated: “There is a Christian concept that you love your family and then you love your neighbor, and then you love your community, and then you love your fellow citizens, and then after that, prioritize the rest of the world. A lot of the far-left has completely inverted that.”

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