Donald Trump was up late Sunday night rage-posting about how much he prefers the Pope’s brother over the supreme pontiff himself.
“I like his brother Louis much better than I like him, because Louis is all MAGA,” the president posted on Truth Social. “He gets it, and Leo doesn’t!”
Lou Prevost, the eldest brother of Pope Leo XIV, does indeed have a cozier relationship with Trump. Prevost has repeatedly praised the Republican leader in online posts, applauding his attacks on the trans community and the Democratic Party, and once even shared a video that referred to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as a “c--t.”
“These f---ing liberals crying about tariffs is just unreal,” the caption under the video read. “Do they not know that there is a thing called video? Just listen to what this drunk c--- has to say in the mid-90’s long before her husband had grindr dates.”
Prevost’s efforts, first revealed in the Daily Beast in May 2025, quickly earned him an invitation to the White House, and to a Mar-a-Lago bash hosted by the president in December.
Trump’s comments came in the midst of an unhinged 334-word rant against the Bishop of Rome after CBS aired a 60 Minutes segment outlining all the ways the new leader of the Catholic Church has criticized the president’s policies.
The Chicago-born pontiff, who last May became history’s first American pope, has fast emerged as one of Trump’s most prominent critics. He has repeatedly condemned the administration’s war with Iran, its January invasion of Venezuela to capture despot Nicolás Maduro, and its hardline immigration crackdown, which Leo has called out as “extremely disrespectful.”
Just last week, the Pope branded Trump’s threat to “wipe out” Iranian civilization “truly unacceptable,” and on Saturday told worshippers at the Vatican to reject the “delusion of omnipotence” surrounding world leaders.
Sunday’s 60 Minutes segment, in which U.S. cardinals Robert McElroy, Joseph Tobin, and Blase Cupich echoed Leo’s criticisms, appears to have been the final straw for the president.
In his meandering Truth Social tirade, Trump lambasted Leo on everything from Iran and Venezuela to COVID-era church closures and immigration. He claimed the pope thinks “it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon,” that he is “weak on crime,” and that he was only elected “because he was an American,” and that “if I wasn’t in the White House, Leo wouldn’t be in the Vatican.”
He soon followed up with a deeply unsettling AI-generated image of himself as the savior of the Christian faith. The picture features Trump, depicted as Christ, healing a hospital patient with hands gleaming with divine light, flanked by an American flag, bald eagles, the Statue of Liberty, and the Lincoln Memorial.
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