Pope Francis, speaking about Donald Trump last year said: “a person who thinks only about building walls… and not of building bridges, is not Christian”,
Trump was very nice to the pontiff. He said” “I have a lot of respect for the Pope. He has a lot of personality and I think he’s doing a very good job, he has a lot of energy.”
Trump said the pontiff was misinformed when he criticized the proposed wall, because he was not aware of the drugs coming in and the other security problems that made a strong border a necessity.
The New York Times reported: “There are, to be sure, formidable walls in Vatican City, and much of the site, including the gardens and the modest guesthouse that is home to Francis, is set behind them.”
Some of the walls in Vatican City were built in the ninth century by Pope Leo IV in an attempt to protect it from attacks by pirates and other marauders, historians said which is part of Donald Trumps reason for building a wall along the Southern border between the United States and Mexico.
“Walls like those found in some parts of the Vatican were a fixture in almost every significant city of the medieval period, including London, Paris and Jerusalem”, said Professor Apostolos-Cappadona.
“The walls are a fortification, there is no question, but they were a fortification built at a time when armed invasions by barbarians and other forces were happening,” she said. To which Trump would add: Exactly!
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