President Donald Trump celebrates ‘great honor’ of first American pope appointment

On Thursday afternoon, president Donald Trump participated with correspondents outside the White House after the announcement of the new American Pope to be elected to this role.

“What a greater honor can be,” the president said at West Wing Portico. (See the video at the top of this article.)

“We are a little surprised, but we are very happy. It is just a great and great honor,” President Trump said.

Pope Leo fourteen appears in the Vatican, and becomes the first of the American Pope

Cardinal Robert Brevost, who took the fourteenth Liu name, is the first American Pope in the history of the Catholic Church.

The President also published our congratulations on the social truth.

The president wrote: “Congratulations to the Cardinal Robert Francis Priestte, who was just called Bob. It is a great honor to realize that he is the first American Pope.”

“What is excitement, and what is a great honor for our country.”

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“I look forward to meeting Pope Liu XIV. It will be a very meaningful moment.”

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The president did not answer the correspondent questions about whether he was planning to visit Pope Liu XIV at the White House anytime.

President Trump, who appears above on Thursday afternoon at the White House, participated in the new Pope. (Guglielmo MangiaPane/Reuters, Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

The Vatican announced an election Pope Liu XIVThe first American Pope in the history of the Catholic Church, shortly after the start of the white smoke from the Sistin Church church on Thursday, said Fox News Digitter earlier Thursday afternoon.

“I look forward to meeting Pope Liu XIV. It will be a very meaningful moment.”

Cardinal Protodikon Dominic Mambarti announced the election of the Cardinal Robert Francis Priestst as the Pope of thousands of believers who descended in Saint Peter’s Square after 133 Cardinals that voted in the Sistin Church for approximately 24 hours.

The newly -elected Pope Liu, Cardinal Robert Brevost, of the United States, appears on the balcony of St. Peter’s Church, in the Vatican, May 8, 2025. (Guglielmo MangiaPane/Reuters)

Prevost, 69-year-old Augustine, appeared on the balcony of Bashilica, St. Peter, wearing the traditional red head of the Babylon-a head that Pope Francis chose not to wear it after his election in 2013.

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Chloe QUill, Anders Hagstrom and Stephen Sorace, all of them from Fox News Digital, contributed to reporting.