>A real POPE would be publicly backing POTUS as would the bishops.
The nature state of Affairs between the Vatican and the United States is adversarial.
First papal visit to USA was in 1965.
U.S. Didn't even have official diploma relations with the Holy See from 1867 to 1984.
Our existence threatens their philosophy, and vice versa.
One is a church that is a state. The other separates church and state.
Cats and dogs.