Trump Snubs American Pope, Praises Leo's Brother Who Called Pelosi a "Cun*"
“I really like his brother,” Trump said — referring to the pope’s MAGA sibling. A meeting with the pope? No plan yet.
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On July 15, Donald Trump was asked whether he’d meet with Pope Leo, the first American pope in history.
He declined.
“I don’t have a plan,” Trump said, before pivoting — effusively — to the pope’s older brother, Louis Prevost.
“He’s a serious Trumper. A MAGA guy all the way. I really like his brother.”
That “brother” is the same Louis Prevost who once shared a video on Facebook calling Nancy Pelosi a “drunk c---.”
Trump knows this. He didn’t care. He doubled down. And in doing so, he told the world exactly who he is.
That choice is particularly jarring when you consider who Pope Leo is — and how he got here.
Before his election as pope on May 8, then-Cardinal Robert Prevost’s Twitter account remained public.
It was full of direct, morally serious criticisms of Trump’s policies — especially around immigration and the dignity of migrants.
He reposted critiques of the Trump-Vance deportation agenda and quietly echoed the Church’s sharpest condemnations of cruelty toward the poor. He wasn’t hiding.
And yet, with that public record fully visible, Prevost was elected in just 24 hours. No backroom spin. No rebranding.
Just a landslide of votes from cardinals around the world who knew what they were getting — and wanted it.
Trump’s refusal to meet with Leo, while embracing his MAGA sibling instead, is a window into his worldview.
It’s not about faith. It’s about loyalty. Not to truth or dignity — but to those who flatter him, no matter how vile their words.
Even if they degrade women. Even if they turn family into faction.
What strikes me most is this: Pope Leo didn’t need to disavow his past to be elevated.
Trump, meanwhile, can’t bring himself to rise above his worst instincts even for a moment of statesmanship. One tells the truth. The other clings to those who lie for him.
Trump snubbed the pope and praised a man who publicly called the Speaker of the House a c---.
That tells you everything you need to know about what kind of moral rot MAGA not only tolerates — but celebrates.
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At first I had mixed feelings of Leo meeting the president. Now I think it would be a good thing but only if Trump came to the Pope not vice versa. If he were to go the president to meet, say in the Oval Office, we can be sure it would be stage managed and even become an ambush as was done to Zelenskyy. No, the Pope should grant an audience if requested, but not go out of his way to meet Trump or any of his minions. What would be marvelous would be if any of the practicing Catholics on the Supreme Court could meet with the Pope. I think he might sway them toward the good.
Trump declining to meet with the first American Pope because he prefers the brother who called a woman a “c---” is peak MAGA theology: bless the bully, crucify the conscience.
Pope Leo dares to remind the Church that the Gospel is about mercy for migrants, not muscle-flexing for Caesar. So naturally, Trump prefers the sibling with slurs in his bloodstream. One brother echoes Christ, the other parrots QAnon—and guess which one gets the golden thumbs-up?
This isn’t politics anymore. It’s spiritual theater, and Trump keeps casting himself as the messiah while surrounding himself with Herods in red hats.
When cruelty becomes the currency of loyalty, don’t be shocked when decency gets left outside the gates.