'He's got an awfully big wall at the Vatican, I will tell you!' Trump can't resist poking fun ...

DailyMail.com ^ | 18 February 2016 | David Martosko

[Rockitz]

'And he's got an awfully big wall at the Vatican, I will tell you.'

Trump reiterated his months-long contention that 'we're going to build a wall, and Mexico's going to pay for the wall. And that's the way it is.'

When Cooper reminded Trump that 'people do come and go through the Vatican, and it's open to tourists,' Trump pounced.

'They're going to come and go through the wall' he will erect on America's southern border, he said, 'but they're going to come and go legally. And that's what I want, and that's what a lot of people want, obviously.' The global leader of the Roman Catholic Church told reporters early Thursday en route to Europe after a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border that 'a person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian. This is not in the gospel.'

Minutes later Trump had taken a harsh line, saying the Pope was 'disgraceful' for declaring he was not a Christian.

But he shrugged hours later, suggesting that 'somehow the government of Mexico spoke with the Pope, I mean they spent a lot of time with the Pope. And by the time he left he made a statement.'

'I didn't think it was a good thing for him to say, frankly,' Trump jabbed.

'I don't like fighting with the Pope. I don't think this is a fight.'

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

What is suspicious is that he said it 2 days before a key primary vote. Trump has been saying it for a long time. Granted he is just now visiting Mexico, but still. Is he ignorant of the fact that we are in the midst of primary season and his comment would be big news, aiding two Catholic candidates?

Maybe he is just too dumb to know that. I just doubt it. Again, I don’t want Trump to win. I think the Pope should butt out.

[QuigleyDU]

Irregardless.
If Trump had any class at all he would he have simply said, “Well, that is his opinion.”

But, Trump could not help himself.
==
That was not just an attack on Trump, it was an attack on Americanism, and all of us.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

LOL. You’re an artist.

[morphing libertarian]

This is not a kids game. We had a president for 8 years who let people lie and debase him. The pope was way out if bounds and trump called him on his hypocracy. I want more of this whether it’s the pope or not

[PrairieLady2]

absolutely! thankyou for that rare wisdom and insight.

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Selected Trump articles on FR, with links, from 4:00 PM to 11:59 PM EST, 2/18/16:
'He's got an awfully big wall at the Vatican, I will tell you!' Trump can't resist poking fun [DailyMail]
Free Republic Caucus 2016 02/19
Oh my: Rubio surges four points overnight in South Carolina, now in second place at 20% (Trump 33%)
Jeff Sessions Unswayed by Pope Francis on Immigration, Economy, Climate
Emerson College SC Tracking Trump 36, Rubio 19, Cruz 18
Obama Attacks Trump at TPP Conference - WHY? [Archpriest Symeon Elias]
To Restore The Constitution, The Voters Themselves Should Follow It [Alan Keyes]
Big Day Tomorrow for Donald Trump. Three Yuuuuuuuuge Rallies!!!!!!
Pat Buchanan: Donald Trump's Rise Is Rejection of a Quarter Century of Bush Republicanism
ARG Tracking (2/18-19) Trump 34, Rubio 22, Kasich 14, Cruz 13
Operation Gideon: Cruz's South Carolina salvation
Pope rebuffed after Trump attack, immigration jab
Live Thread: CNN Republican Town Hall Night Two 8PM EST [Trump, Bush, Kasich]
Donald Trump Wants to Make the Vatican Great Again! [humor]
Welcome to the Trump revolution: The last challenge is Ted Cruz -- and Ted Cruz is in trouble [Salon]
SC Presidential Primary Survey [SC House R Caucus - Trump 34, Cruz 18, Rubio 16]
Pope heads home from Mexican trip and attack on Trump's fence to the WALLED Vatican City [DailyMail]
How to win the South Carolina GOP primary
Trump still leads national race for GOP nomination
Time Magazine: Pope Francis Joins the 2016 Race at Key Time (they hope he will sway the election)
The Donald vs. the Pope Do the Vatican Walls Get the Pass [TMZ]
Trump and Schwarzenegger: A political comparison [LA Times]
New Yorkers seek court order to keep Cruz off the ballot in state Republican presidential primaries
Cruz Says He Hasn't Attacked His Colleagues, Despite Attacking His Colleagues
Donald Trump is a bigger frontrunner to be the Republican nominee than you think [WaPo]
Despite Criticism of Pope, Donald Trump Questioned Rival's Christianity
Republican Insiders Plan for a Convention Fight Aagainst Donald Trump or Ted Cruz [Time]
Murdoch tells Trump to "Calm Down"
Gov. Sarah Palin: What's So Smart About Glenn Beck?
The Pope: Trump's Not a Christian [Limbaugh]
How we can build Trump's border wall [video]

[Bidimus1]

Maybe djt can make it into condos for 10s of millions of Italians like he has for the Chinese.. or so he claimed tonight... yea right

[Ransomed]

I bet it is the first time a reporter asked him about it concerning Trump. Have you read what the reporter asked him, and his whole answer? I think it was not the swiftest either, but it seemed to me he didn’t seem to know much past what the reporter ‘informed’ him of it.

As far as Trump, I’m just not sure America is ready for the first orange president.

Freegards

[lifeline]

The pope and Trump are pretending to be at odds for the moment.

[tumblindice]

Like the modern day Saracens, Marxists are off limits for Papa

[BipolarBob]

Care to do one for “If the Pope had any class he wouldn’t . . . “

[D-fendr]

Nahhh..

THIS is art:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiZqFGLAeAc

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

LOL. I love it.

[V K Lee]

Nikos1121 is feeling like dancing today. Perhaps he should be asked to play the roll of Donald O'Connor and do a number by dancing in this wall? Just a thought. Just poking fun :-)) We got the Boogie Fever!! Go!! TRiUMPh

[entropy12]

Great graphic!

[miss marmelstein]

Ooooh, creepy Catholics alert! What are Bush and Rubio REALLY up to??!

What a joke.

And while this Catholic thinks the Pope is a jerk, let me remind folks who don’t travel much that Vatican City is not an entirely walled city. A huge portion of it - St. Peter’s Square, anyone? - is completely open to the public. Been there many times.

[Jukeman]

Trump is a low life thug. He will never get a vote from this conservative nor anyone else that I know.

[Jukeman]

Send the Pope back to the hell he came from. The SOB has no sacred bone in his body. He is just another communist.

[Psalm 144]

I’m glad Trump backhanded the old grifter.

[Psalm 144]

lol yep!