Pope Francis has noted that he would not offer an opinion on Donald Trump until he first had a chance to see specific policies the new US president would implement, Guardian reports.
"I think that we must wait and see. I don’t like to get ahead of myself nor judge people prematurely," the pope told Spanish newspaper El País in an interview.
"We will see how he acts, what he does, and then I will have an opinion. But being afraid or rejoicing beforehand because of something that might happen is, in my view, quite unwise. It would be like prophets predicting calamities," he said.
Francis also warned Europeans against populism, saying they should not repeat the same mistakes as in the 1930s when they turned to "saviours" to resolve the economic and political crisis only to end up at war.