Pope’s Maga brother meets Donald Trump at White House. Who is Louis Prevost?

Pope Leo XIV’s brother met US President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday.

Louis Martin Prevost, a self-described ‘Maga-type’, was photographed in the Oval Office alongside his wife, Trump and Vance.

“Great meeting between President Trump, Vice President Vance, and @Pontifex’s brother, Louis Prevost, and his wife Deborah,” a senior Trump aide posted on social media along with the photograph.

This comes just a day after Vance met Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican.

The new pope has been a fierce critic of Trump and the Maga movement.

But who is the 73-year-old brother of the new pontiff? What do we know about him?

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Who is Louis Prevost?

Louis is the older brother of Pope Leo XIV.

As per The Guardian, Louis lives in Florida’s Port Charlotte.

Louis is married to Deborah Prevost, as per Town and Country.

As per People Magazine, Louis, like his siblings went to St. Mary of the Assumption Parish, a school on the South Side of Chicago.

Louis, like his father, served in the US Navy.

Louis came into the spotlight after his brother, previously known as Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, was elected head of the Catholic Church.

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Louis told Town and Country he and his brother spoke before the conclave.

“We talked a little bit about it and I said you know what happens if you win? If they vote for you, are you going to accept it?” Louis asked. “[He said] ‘I will accept it; it’s God’s will; it’s in his hands.’”

Louis, speaking to People Magazine after his brother was elected pope, said he considered his brother a “weird” kid because he “always wanted to play priest.”

“Nobody else in our ‘hood played priest, but Robert did. And our parents always supported his wishes in that area,” Louis said. “Mom let him use our ironing board to put a sheet over, and crackers we had for communion. My brother enjoyed this.”

Louis has claimed that a nun in the second grade told his brother he would be pope someday.

Even his friends’ mothers said so.

“They all thought my brother would grow up to be the pope!”

However, it is Louis’ social media posts – critical of Joe Biden and Barack Obama and their voters, trans people and Nancy Pelosi – that have come under scrutiny.

As per The Guardian, Lou posted a video in which a slur was used against ex-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Another post from 2017 claimed Obama and the Democrats were “longing for the total destruction of our way of life and turning this country into a dictatorship, and a racist one on top of it”.

“Sometimes I like to go stir the pot,” Louis told Piers Morgan last week as per Yahoo.com. “A lot like I think President Trump does. He says things just to stir the pot. Cause it’s fun to like get into some of these debates with people sometimes from the other side.”

“I wouldn’t have posted it if I didn’t kind of believe it,” Louis said about his Pelosi post. “However, I had no idea that what was coming was coming this soon. And I can tell you since then I’ve been … biting my tongue about some of the stuff that is out there on social media.”

Pope Leo’s anti-Trump stance

Pope Leo XIV has been critical of both Trump and the Maga movement even before becoming pontiff.

As Trump’s campaign ramped up in July 2015, Leo posted to X a Washington Post op-ed by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York, with the headline, “Why Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric is so problematic.”

In the wake of Trump’s first election in 2016, Leo reposted a homily in which Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez — characterizing the fear among many, including schoolchildren who “think the government is going to come and deport their parents, any day now” — said that America is “better than this.”

In September 2017, months into Trump’s first term, Leo recirculated a post by author-activist Sister Helen Prejean saying she stands “with the #Dreamers and all people who are working toward an immigration system that is fair, just, and moral.”

He also reposted church chronicler Rocco Palmo’s piece with the teaser, “Saying Trump’s ‘bad hombres’ line fuels ‘racism and nativism,’ Cali bishops send preemptive blast on DACA repeal.”

In February 2025, Prevost shared an article entitled “JD Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn’t ask us to rank our love for others" on his X profile.

He also posted a link to an article by Pope Francis criticising JD Vance using Catholic doctrine as cover for the Trump administration’s immigration policies.

In April 2025, when Trump had a meeting with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele to discuss using a prison where alleged human rights abuses took place to jail suspected gang members flown from the US, Prevost reposted a comment that included: “Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”

Leo XIV has said that those in the Maga movement are ‘not real Christians.’

People from the Maga in turn have gone after Pope Leo.

“I mean it’s kind of jaw-dropping,” Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon told the BBC.

“It is shocking to me that a guy could be selected to be the Pope that had had the Twitter feed and the statements he’s had against American senior politicians,” Bannon, a Catholic, said.

Far-right influencer Laura Loomer called Leo “anti-Trump, anti-Maga, pro-open Borders, and a total Marxist like Pope Francis”.

“Pope Leo XIV: Registered Chicago Republican and pro-life warrior OR Open borders globalist installed to counter Trump?” wrote right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.

Trump, who had posted an AI-generated image of himself as pope, has congratulated Leo and said he is looking forward to meeting him.

“It is such an honour to realize that he is the first American,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “What excitement, and what a Great Honour for our Country. I look forward to meeting Pope Leo XIV. It will be a very meaningful moment!”

“I like the pope and I like the pope’s brother,” Trump said on Wednesday, as per The Independent. “Did you know that he lives in Florida? He’s got MAGA, he’s got Trump, and I look forward to getting him to the White House. I want to shake his hand. I want to give him a big hug.”

But Louis remains confident his brother is the man for the job.

“He can smooth over the conservatives who were uncomfortable with Pope Francis and help put divisions aside,” Louis told People Magazine. “He will help make all Catholics happy and build up the church instead of tearing it down.”

WIth inputs from agencies