New Pope Frustrated with Trump: Already Anger! "Conscience" Questioned

EXPRESS New Pope Frustrated with Trump: Already Anger! "Conscience" Questioned Daniel Thiel (dth) • 5 hrs. • 2 mins read A native-born American has been elected as the new pope. Late Thursday afternoon (May 8, 2025), white smoke rose from the Vatican – then Leo XIV was introduced as the new head of the church. It didn't take long before reporters from the United States and beyond turned their attention to the homeland of Robert Prevost, the new pope. This is due in no small part to the current political situation in the USA. Pope Leo XIV Criticized the Trump Administration – Just a Few Weeks Ago Shortly after the announcement, Donald Trump (78) said it was a great honor to have a US pope – and that he had already received a call from the Vatican, according to the Reuters news agency. However, two tweets from the new pope quickly circulated, in which Prevost expressed criticism of the Trump administration's statements and actions. If the US president had hoped to portray a perfect coexistence between politics and the Church, he already has a problem. In a social media post from February, he shared an article by Trump's vice president, JD Vance (40), and responded with criticism: "JD Vance is wrong. Jesus doesn't ask us to prioritize our love for others." Just in April, the 69-year-old shared a tweet about a conversation between Trump and the president of El Salvador, in which, among other things, the politicians' "conscience" was questioned. "Don't you see the suffering? Isn't their conscience disturbed?" it reads, among other things. The meeting addressed, among other things, whether Trump would again use a prison where human rights violations had apparently occurred. The circumstances apparently also angered then-Cardinal Prevost, who has now been appointed head of the Church. His predecessor, Pope Francis, who died on April 21 at the age of 88, made no secret of his displeasure with Trump's policies. He once described the US president's migration policy as a "disgrace."