sarahs mum said:

Heather Cox Richardson
4h ·
May 8, 2025 (Thursday)

*snip….As an American-born pope in the model of Pope Francis, Pope Leo XIV might be able to appeal to American far-right Catholics and bring them back into the fold. But today, MAGAs responded to the new pope with fury. Right-wing influencer Laura Loomer, who is close to Trump, called Pope Leo “another Marxist puppet in the Vatican.” Influencer Charlie Kirk suggested he was an “pen borders globalist installed to counter Trump.”

In the U.S., President Donald Trump, who said he would like to be pope and then posted a picture of himself dressed as a pope on May 2, prompting an angry backlash by those who thought it was disrespectful, posted on social media that the election of the first pope from the United States was “a Great Honor for our Country” and that he looks forward to meeting him. ‘It will be a very meaningful moment!” he added…..snip*

Thanks for another good Heather Cox Richardson piece sarahs mum.
I was a bit conflicted over an American pope, but seeing the MAGAs losing their tiny minds makes me think it might be a good choice.