{"id":19432,"date":"2025-05-09T09:20:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T13:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=19432"},"modified":"2025-05-09T09:20:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T13:20:49","slug":"new-pope-leo-xiv-spent-years-retweeting-criticism-of-trump-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=19432","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>New Pope Leo XIV spent years retweeting criticism of Trump policies<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19433\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screen-Shot-2025-05-09-at-9.19.45-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"541\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screen-Shot-2025-05-09-at-9.19.45-AM.png 541w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screen-Shot-2025-05-09-at-9.19.45-AM-300x293.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/08\/us-news\/new-pope-leo-xiv-spent-years-retweeting-criticism-of-trump-policies\/\">READ HERE:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/08\/world-news\/new-pope-chosen-after-conclave-live-updates-reactions-photos-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Newly elected Pope Leo XIV\u00a0<\/a>spent years amplifying criticism of President Trump\u2019s policies on social media \u2014 with the Catholic Church\u2019s first American leader taking particular aim at the Republican\u2019s hard-line immigration stance.<\/p>\n<p>Leo XIV, until Thursday known as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/world-news\/who-is-robert-prevost-pope-leo-xiv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Francis Prevost<\/a>, 69, shared or retweeted the opinions of colleagues using his verified account @drprevost on X, formerly known as Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>His final X post before being elected by the Conclave in the Sistine Chapel was a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/roccopalmo\/status\/1911914220850946211\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">retweet of a message<\/a>\u00a0from Philadelphia-based Catholic commentator Rocco Palmo, who on April 14 slammed Trump\u2019s partnership with El Salvador\u2019s President Nayib Bukele on deportation of illegal migrants.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}