The following is a message posted to X by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò after President-Elect Donald J. Trump’s resounding victory and election to become the 47th President of the United States.

Donald J. Trump’s victory in the electoral competition for the presidency of the United States of America constitutes a historic moment in the dramatic events of the present and marks a formidable setback for the criminal plan of the New World Order.

I express my warmest congratulations to President Trump, while I thank Our Lord for having prevented the United States and the Western world from definitively falling into the tentacles of the deep state and globalist tyranny.

Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz walk onstage for a campaign rally at the Fiserv Forum on August 20, 2024, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

The battle against the subversive elite of psychopathic criminals who hold the West hostage is not over; it now begins.

I urge American Catholics and all Christians to pray for President Trump, so that the Lord may protect him in this transition phase towards taking office in the White House, guiding him in the unavoidable eradication of the lobby of corrupt and perverted people subservient to the deep state.

Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump prays during a roundtable discussion with Latino community leaders at Trump National Doral Miami resort in Miami, Florida, on October 22, 2024. (CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

His determined action against the traitors of the nation will also weaken the work of the deep church, which today holds the Catholic Church hostage.

May God bless America.