Donald Trump has continued his recent world tour with a visit with Pope Francis at the Vatican – and their meeting seemed somewhat awkward, to say the least. Just check this out:
Curb Your Catholicism pic.twitter.com/Q3YVhtliMA
— JOE (@JOE_co_uk) May 24, 2017
It turns out that the Pope also may have done some next-level trolling on POTUS at the same time. According to the White House press pool report, Pope Francis gave Trump a very snide gift:
Per White House pool, @Pontifex gave Trump a personally signed copy of his climate change encyclical today.
— Andrew Freedman (@afreedma) May 24, 2017
@Pontifex Correction: Pope Francis gave Trump a copy of the climate change encyclical, but signed a World Day of Peace msg, not the encyclical.
— Andrew Freedman (@afreedma) May 24, 2017
If you don’t know what a ‘encyclical’ is, Wikipedia describes it as “a Papal encyclical is specific category of papal document, a kind of letter concerning Catholic doctrine, sent by the Pope and usually addressed especially to patriarchs, primates, archbishops and bishops who are in communion with the Holy See.” The climate change encyclical was first put out in 2015.
Trump famously has implied that climate change is a hoax, and has called it ‘bullshit’ in the past, and he has already started to unravel Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan.
According to the press pool, Trump response to the gift was:
Well, I’ll be reading them
We hope you do, Donald.
