However, his most recent social media posts suggest that the Vatican might have another tense relationship with the Trump-Vance administration. Unsurprisingly, MAGA social media is having a meltdown over the new pope who, like the late Pope Francis, has advocated for immigrants.

Before becoming pontiff, the first U.S.-born pope was not shy about criticizing President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance - social media musings that pulled him into the maelstrom of divided U.

Former White House chief strategist and ultraconservative Catholic Steve Bannon said Friday Pope Leo XIV's election as first US-born pontiff had been a vote against his old boss Donald Trump and that Leo was the worst choice for the Catholics in the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement.