Prior to his election as Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost's social media activity suggested criticism of President Donald Trump's immigration policies.

The contrast between President Trump and Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV couldn’t be more stark, politically, personally, or in their world views.

The tweet, by noted Catholic commentator Rocco Palmo, accused Trump and El Salvador’s current leader, Nayib Bukele, of laughing at the plight of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the wrongly deported Maryland father put on a flight to Bukele’s megaprison and now at the center of a constitutional stand-off between Trump and the courts.