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What a frigging Moron!!!
Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would use the threat of ISIS terrorists to scare the pope if he confronted him about the dangers of capitalism.
When Pope Francis visits the United States next month he is expected to be critical of American economic policies, as he has in the past.
Trump told CNNs Chris Cuomo that he would remind the pope that ISIS wants to kill him and take over Vatican City.
Id say, ISIS wants to get you, Trump said. You know that ISIS wants to go in and take over the Vatican you have heard that. Thats a dream of theirs.
When asked whether he really wanted to scare the pope, Trump said he is going to have to take that route.
Im going to have to scare the pope, Trump said. The pope, I hope, can only be scared by God, but the truth is you know, if you look at whats going on they better hope that capitalism works, because its the only thing we have right now. And its a great thing when it works properly.
Trump likely isnt doing anything to ease the popes potential criticism, saying he would want to do away with restrictive regulations.
Between regulation, between all of the Dodd-Frank (Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act), between all of the different things that have been imposed, we arent competitive like we used to be, Trump said. We have to open up our country to great capitalism.
http://wegoted.com/2015/08/trump-would-threaten-the-pope-if-he-criticized-capitalism/
Gman
(24,780 posts)He'll say, ."What's that?"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lepanto
DinahMoeHum
(21,786 posts)Pope Francis grew up in a Latin American dictatorship, worked in the slums of Buenos Aires, and dodged the RW death squads. WTF is that pansy Trump to him????
Boomerproud
(7,952 posts)A whole generation still believes it. Is Capitalism going to defeat ISIS? I'm stupid, someone will have to explain that idea to me.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)judge the living and the dead and tell the Pope "you're fired". The Church of Trump has declared it thus.
no_hypocrisy
(46,095 posts)Sounds like a pipe dream.
Pharaoh
(8,209 posts)A very rare event, ................... Should be very entertaining,...............Get the Popcorn ready!!
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/pope-address-us-congress-114939.html