Washington (EFE) .- The administration of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, reduced this Friday to some publications of Pope Leo XIV in the social network X, where in February and last April he shared critical press articles with the government of the Republican and specifically against the vice president, JD Vance.
“The president’s reaction to Pope León’s announcement was very clear,” said White House spokesman Karoline Leavitt, who removed iron from the controversy by remembering that Trump said he was “very proud to have an American Pope.”
«I think it was a surprise for everyone. The media were surprised to inform about that yesterday, but it is very good for the US and for the world. We are praying for him, ”said Leavitt, a practicing Catholic, during a session with journalists at the Executive Residence.
The differences of Leo XIV with the Trump government
On February 3, the new Pope shared in his X account an opinion article by a National Catholic Reporter journalist entitled “JD Vance is wrong: Jesus does not ask us to hierarchy our love for others.”
This was seen as a criticism of statements by the American vice president about the need to worry about the family itself, putting the neighbor behind.
-In his last action in X, on April 14, Prevost shared a tribune written by Salvadoran Bishop Evelio Menjivar-Ayala who questions the agreements between Trump and the Salvadoran President, Nayib Bukele, to deport undocumented US undocumented and enter them in the center of confinement of terrorism (CECOT).
Both Trump and Vance congratulated Leo XIV. «It is a great honor to know that he is the first American Pope. What emotion and what great honor for our country. I am looking forward to meeting with Pope Leo XIV. It will be a very significant moment! ”, Said the president in the Social Truth Network.
The mood shown by Prevost
Leo XIV was chosen this Thursday as the 267 Pontiff of History, happening to Francisco (2013-2025), who died on April 21 at age 88.
The new Pope was born in Chicago 69 years ago, although he also obtained Peruvian nationality in 2015 after spending much of his religious life in the Andean country.
When Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, the new Pope proved to be in favor of the struggle for the rights of migrants and against climate change, and was also critical of some other members of the current US administration.
