Boiler wrote:From the BBC:
Still, some of Trump's most prominent supporters were quick to attack Pope Leo, lambasting him as a possible challenge to Trump and on the perception that he will follow Pope Francis in areas like immigration.
"I mean it's kind of jaw-dropping," Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon told the BBC on Friday, speaking of Leo's election.
"It is shocking to me that a guy could be selected to be the Pope that had had the Twitter feed and the statements he's had against American senior politicians," said Bannon, a hard-right Trump loyalist, practising Catholic and former altar boy.
They always think that everything revolves around them, don't they. There's 1.4bn Catholics in the world, 62m in the US, and of that 62m who voted around 60% went for Trump.
16.7 %
66.7 %
16.7 %
- By Andy McDandy
- By davidjay