Maga criticizes the first American Pope as not “America First”

Catholicism has rarely been more prominent in US policy, since the Trump government openly hugged its consultants and civil servants who proudly say that faith had shaped their politics.

But every jubilation about the American is making America great again this week about the new Pope, when the most important voices from Donald Trump's Maga movement came to a disappointed conclusion: The first American Pope does not seem to be “America first”.

Little is known about the political inclinations of Pope Leo XIV, born in Robert Francis Prevost in Chicago. He has commented on concerns about the poor and immigrants, chosen a name that may cause the church to lead more liberal, and he both seems to have supported the liberal-like Pope Francis and criticize the policy of the US president in social media.

But so far the president has only said that Leo's election was a “great honor” for the United States. Nevertheless, some of the most famous supporters of Trump quickly attacked Pope Leo and lambasted him as a possible challenge for Trump and the perception that he will follow Pope Francis in areas such as immigration.

“I think it's a kind of stunning,” said Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon on Friday by phone to the BBC and spoke of Leo's election.

“It is shocking for me that a man could be selected as a Pope who had the Twitter feed and the statements he had against American high-ranking politicians,” said Bannon, a right-wing Trump loyalist, Catholic and former altar boy.

And he predicted that there will definitely be friction between Leo and Trump.

The Pope's brother, John Prevost, told the New York Times, he thinks his brother would pronounce his disagreements with the president.

“I know that he is not satisfied with what is going on with the immigration,” he said. “I know that for a fact. How far it will go with it is only the assumption, but he won't just sit back. I don't think it will be silence.”

The latest survey data show that, according to the impartial PEW Research Center, about 20% of Americans identify as Catholic.

About 53% identify or tend to the Republican Party, although there are also enough nuances: America's two Catholic presidents, John F Kennedy and Joe Biden, were both Democrats. And almost two thirds of the US Catholics believe that abortion should be legal among all or in most cases – a departure from the current attitude of the church.

The US Catholics also supported Pope Francis in general: 78% of the persons surveyed in February looked at him positively, including the majority of Catholic Republicans.

A number of Catholics in the Pope's hometown of the Pope on Thursday triggered a disappointment with President Trump and hoped that Pope Leo XIV would follow the path of his predecessor.

“We hope that he will continue with Francis' agenda in the future,” said Rick Stevens, a Catholic deacon from New Jersey, who happened to visit Chicago when he heard the news.

The US conference of the Catholic bishops, which leads and coordinates the Catholic activities of the US activities, celebrated the election of the Pope Leo and the message sent by it.

“Of course we are pleased that a son of this nation was selected by the cardinals, but we realize that he now belongs to all Catholics and all people with good will,” the conference said in a statement. “His words that are advocated for peace, unity and mission activity are already showing a way forward.”

Although Maga supporters represent a small sub -group of US Catholics, this is one with an oversized access to conservative media and Trump's ear.

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“This type was massively accepted by the liberals and the progressive,” said Ben Harnwell, a journalist who led Bannon's efforts to determine what he describes as a “Gladiator School” for the “Judeo-Christian West” outside of Rome.

“He is one of her own … He has (Pope) Francis' DNA in him,” said Harnwell.

Jack Posobiec, another Maga commentator who chose Rome, was Stumpf: “This choice of the American cardinal was carried out as an answer to President Trump.”

The complete picture of what led to the selection of Pope Leo on Thursday is still that the decisions of church decisions are not ordered on the US policy. Nevertheless, observers around the world have looked at Pope Leo about the social media profiles of Pope Leo in search of information about his inclinations and beliefs.

An X account under his name, with tweets returning until 2015, the link to criticism of Trump's immigration approach and references to other political views such as stricter weapons control.

In February, the account was strongly wrestled by the US Vice President by a link to an opinion entitled “Jd Vance is wrong: Jesus does not ask us to evaluate our love for others”.

The account also published a link to a letter from Pope Francis after collapting against church teaching and immigration with Vance. Vance – a Catholic convert – had given an interview to defend the Trump government's immigration policy.

Vance routinely has appointed his trust in the defense of the administration, in particular the immigration policy, which the White House said to make “America first”.

“There is a Christian concept that they love their family and then love their neighbors, and then love their community and then their fellow citizens and then prioritize the rest of the world. Many of the left left completely inverted it,” Vance told Fox News.

However, the US Democrats were not spared the report, which has more than a decade of posts. They seem to support Catholic employers who refuse to pay for the health plans for employees, and after the US presidential elections 2016, a mail to an article in which the democrat Hillary Clinton was accused of ignoring Catholic voters from Pro-Life.

The BBC asked the Vatican to confirm that it was Leo that was not received.

Vice President Vance told conservative broadcaster Hugh Hewitt on Friday: “I don't try to play the politicization of the papal game.”

“I am sure he will say a lot of things I love. I am sure that he will say some things that I do not agree to, but despite everything and through everything I will be praying for him and the church, and that will be the way I deal with it.”

The LGBTQ views of the new Pope are also unclear, but some groups, including the conservative College of Cardinals, believe that he is less supportive than Pope Francis.

Matt Walsh, a commentator with the conservative Daily Wire, wrote: “There are some good signs and bad signs with this new Pope. I would like to see what he is actually doing with his papacy before I exist.”

But some of the most committed Maga supporters have already decided.

Laura Loomer, a right-wing extremist influencer who has Trump's ear and fluctuated the president for top personnel decisions, described the new Pope “Anti-Trump, Anti-Maga, Pro-Open-Borders and a total Marxist Marxist like Pope Francis”.

Bannon, who had proposed Leo as a dark horse for the papacy, predicted the tensions between the White House and the Vatican – and said they could even tear American Catholics.

“Remember, President Trump was not shy to make a shot on Pope Francis,” he said.

“So if this Pope – what he will do – tries to come between President Trump and his implementation of the mass shifting program, I would be entitled to.”

With the reporting of Cai Pigliucci