Leave it to Pope Francis to tell it like it is.
When asked recently about Donald Trump’s promise to build a wall separating the U.S. and Mexico using Mexican money, Francis, a noted champion of the poor, said, “A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian.”
The ever-thinned skinned Trump wasn’t about to let the pope’s statement go unchallenged. And so we now have this blistering rebuttal to the pontiff. Enjoy.
If and when the Vatican is attacked by ISIS, which as everyone knows is ISIS’s ultimate trophy, I can promise you that the Pope would have only wished and prayed that Donald Trump would have been President because this would not have happened. ISIS would have been eradicated unlike what is happening now with our all talk, no action politicians.
The Mexican government and its leadership has made many disparaging remarks about me to the Pope, because they want to continue to rip off the United States, both on trade and at the border, and they understand I am totally wise to them. The Pope only heard one side of the story – he didn’t see the crime, the drug trafficking and the negative economic impact the current policies have on the United States. He doesn’t see how Mexican leadership is outsmarting President Obama and our leadership in every aspect of negotiation.
For a religious leader to question a person’s faith is disgraceful. I am proud to be a Christian and as President I will not allow Christianity to be consistently attacked and weakened, unlike what is happening now, with our current President. No leader, especially a religious leader, should have the right to question another man’s religion or faith. They are using the Pope as a pawn and they should be ashamed of themselves for doing so, especially when so many lives are involved and when illegal immigration is so rampant.
P.S. It’s worth noting that Trump initially made these statements just minutes ago at a Kiawah Island campaign stop. During his Kiawah speech — it was still going on when I began writing this — the Trump campaign sent out the above press release. While Trump generally speaks off-the-cuff, there is some indication the above remarks may have been prepared and read at Kiawah. I don’t know which is more frightening — that Trump’s pope trash-talking got the better of him or that he and his team signed off on all of this ridiculous statement.
P.S.P.S. As for who this mysterious group who controls the pope is, I’m not certain. But now, more than ever, I am convinced that this is proof that Donald Trump is not a member of the Illuminati, but he could, in fact, be the living embodiment of a “fnord.”
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