Louis Prevost, the older brother of Pope Leo XIV, mentioned in an interview with Piers Morgan on Tuesday that he’ll doubtless tone down the right-wing, pro-Donald Trump posts on social media now that his older sibling is the pinnacle of the Catholic Church.
After Leo was elected final week as the primary U.S.-born pope, it emerged that his sibling had shared vile content online, together with one video that known as former Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) a “drunk c***.”
Prevost informed Morgan he’s now gone “quiet” on-line and is “biting my tongue.”
“I’m a MAGA kind, and I’ve my beliefs. I don’t have to create warmth for him,” he defined.
Morgan requested if the Vatican had known as requesting he “ease off the gasoline” and if he’d change his “social media technique going ahead.”
“Nobody has contacted me but,” he replied. “I’m hoping that it doesn’t get that far, however you by no means know, as these things comes up.”
“Generally I prefer to go stir the pot,” he confessed. “Quite a bit like I feel President Trump does. He says issues simply to stir the pot. Trigger it’s enjoyable to love get into a few of these debates with folks typically from the opposite aspect.”
However Prevost mentioned he’s realized “now that I see a few of this coming again at me, that I ought to most likely tone it down.” He’s “backed off a number of media, and I don’t see myself actually getting an excessive amount of concerned” till he can converse to his brother and work out if and the way it’s affecting him, he added.
The brand new pope “is aware of I’m who I’m” and is “effectively conscious of my place,” he informed Morgan. “He is aware of, I’m most likely not going to vary, and I don’t assume I’ll aside from to simply, such as you say, tone it down.”
Elsewhere within the interview, Prevost declined to disclose the naughtiest factor his brother, who himself has previously shared posts criticizing Trump and his administration, had ever completed. “I’m not going to reply that as a result of I don’t wish to create any extra waves for the brand new pope than there might already be for some issues I’ve mentioned,” he informed Morgan.
Prevost additionally revealed he’d served on the identical U.S. Navy ship as first-term Trump White Home chief strategist-turned-MAGA flamethrower Steve Bannon, though they don’t know one another.
And he predicted that, beneath the papacy of his brother, who he mentioned isn’t “tremendous political,” he didn’t envision clergymen being allowed to marry, nor girls allowed to develop into clergymen, nor the endorsement of homosexual marriage.
Ladies would maybe be appointed to senior advisory roles, and members of the LGBTQ+ neighborhood wouldn’t be pushed out of the church, he added, suggesting his brother would observe a lot the identical path as his predecessor, the late Pope Francis.
Watch the total interview right here:
