Charlie Kirk: “Mr. Prevost, the new pope, was retweeting George Floyd propaganda”
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From the May 8, 2025, edition of The Charlie Kirk Show, streamed on Rumble
CHARLIE KIRK (HOST): OK. I mean, look. Not — everyone was doing it in 2020. Well, not us, but, Mr. Prevost, the new pope, was retweeting George Floyd propaganda. But that is what it is. Whatever.
So, again, I'm not Catholic, so you guys can sort this out amongst yourselves. Let's talk about the American aspect of this. I'll start with you, Frank. Frank, what do you think this will mean for the country, for our nation that we love to have a pope from America? He's also from — he's from America, but he served in Peru, but he will be known as the American pope. And also just what — is there something else going on here? Why they would go out of their way to choose an American pope, Frank?
FRANK PAVONE (GUEST): That's the most surprising element of this to me, and and I think that we can first of all say, one of my concerns you know, our concerns with Pope Francis was he didn't seem to understand or appreciate what was going on here in America, our American politics, certainly. And, you know, not to say that this is necessarily going to be a, you know, pro-Trump pope, but I have the hope that, you know, at least coming from a more of a familiarity with America, he will be able to work better with the Trump administration than Pope Francis did. Now having said that, again, we'll have to just see the specifics as they unfold. The other thought is very interesting, like what you said about John Paul going back to Poland. Certainly he's going to make trips to America. And I think this can really engage the attention of the American public to, you know, what is a pope anyway, you know, and get a renewed interest in what is going on with the Catholic Church. But I'm even more excited about the other — in the opposite direction or how the understanding of America and our Constitution and our system of government will affect the way he leads the whole church and the way he works with the current administration.