Trump and Leon XIV, two very distant profiles and an uncertain connection

President Donald Trump is no longer alone as the American with the most power or influence on the planet. From now on, he shares the honor with Robert Francis Prevost, born in Chicago and elected this Thursday as the new Pope, Leo XIV. The relationship between the two—at a glance completely different in personality and opinion—will be fundamental at a time when populism is booming and isolationist and anti-immigration policies grow in the world.

The election of a new American pope has no connection with President Donald Trump, decided the parish priest of Saint-Sauveur.

Despite a deep ideological divergence with the MAGA world, the new pontiff could play a key role in Vatican finances by re-establishing ties with US donors, in a context of fiscal crisis

Reading time approx.: 1 minutes, 39 secondsThe world is moved by the election of the new Pope. Leo XIV is American and would have profound differences with Donald Trump: in his assumption he called for world peace... Let's stick together, hand in hand and go forward In a world plagued by war, international frictions and on the brink of a trade war, Leon XIV was forceful in the first message as Pope: "Male will not prevail. We are all in God's ha…

Paulo Mendes Pinto coordinator of the Science Area of the University of Lusofona helps us to understand why Robert Prevost's choice and how this can be pontified.