NPR: A brief history of Trump's feud with Pope Francis
April 21, 2025
9:13 AM ET
Rachel Treisman
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Trump praised the pope at the start of Francis's papacy, in 2013, several years before Trump reached the White House.
"The new Pope is a humble man, very much like me, which probably explains why I like him so much!" Trump tweeted in December of that year, several months after Francis became pope.
Things soured soon after. During the 2016 election, Francis roundly criticized Trump's campaign proposal to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
"A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian," Francis said at the time.
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take a slider on the ketchup residue sliding directly into one of his newly-installed golden pedestals, after which the giant bust of himself (of course) lands directly upon his near-empty cranium, inducing that hoped-for (by billions) subdural hematoma.
Tisk tisk. So sad... so ... Tots and Pears for that orange menace. 
But, the loss of Pope Francis is genuinely a loss. He was a good and effective counter to the horrible MAGATs.
moronic look on Trump's. Humiliating does not begin to cover it. (Melania looks well-medicated; Ivanka looks like someone promised her a portrait would be forthcoming of her countenance to hang in the Louvre 
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TSF probably extremely jealous over the Pope's global popularity and status. Did the personal feud heat up so much that he finally sent JD there on a "mission"?
