Chubby President Meets Cool Pope

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President Donald Trump’s recent visit to the Vatican has stirred up a lot of jokes on the internet. The jokes were mainly based on Pope Francis’s face captured in one of the pictures. Pope Francis is seen displeased by the fact he had to pose for a picture with Donald Trump. This made the way for a number of funny memes of the Pope sulking and standing next to Trump.

But let’s take a deeper look into what made the Pope look so unhappy and what is it that is so upsetting about sharing space with the ‘Great’ President Trump.

Let’s start with climate change, we are all aware of the danger it causes our planet yet President Trump seems to think it’s a conspiracy theory. Unbelievable, don’t you think? Quoting the President himself from one of his Twitter posts, “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.”

But on the other hand, Pope Francis was quoted in 2015 at a speech at Santo Tomas University in Manila, saying, “A second key area where you are called to make a contribution is in showing concern for the environment. This is not only because of this country, more than many others, is likely to be seriously affected by climate change. You are called to care for creation not only as responsible citizens but also as followers of Christ!” Reason one for Pope Francis’s disappointed look could very well be their extreme clashing views about climate change. This led Pope Francis to gift Trump his encyclical on preserving the environment. After receiving it Trump responded, “Well, I’ll be reading them.”

The Pope also gave Trump a small sculptured olive tree and said it symbolized peace. The Pope said, “It is my desire that you become an olive tree to construct peace.” Trump responded with his brilliant vocabulary, “We can use peace.”

Now, the next issue Trump and the Pontiff disagree upon is immigration. While Trump was a candidate waiting for the elections, he stated his plans to build a wall along the U.S., and Mexico border. To which the Pope released a statement that implied a man with such views is “not Christian.”

These are the topics that have been openly discussed by the President and the Pope. But since Trump has come into the political light he has been part of a number of controversies. Trump has been known for making derogatory comments about women. He also has a habit of making everything a conspiracy theory if he doesn’t agree with it.

Donald Trump is known to stir up controversies ever since he declared he was running for the presidency. After all that has been said by one of the most ignorant leaders, Pope Francis hoped to make a change and reshape the President’s views on immigration and global warming.

Once the meeting was done, Trump said to the Pope, “Thank you, thank you. I won’t forget what you said.” Trump then told the media, “Great. He is something. He is really good. We had a fantastic meeting.”

But only time will tell if the president that thinks climate change is a hoax will put his pride down and actually make a difference. The Pope conveyed two important lessons to Trump, one being global warming and the other being peace. Pope Francis gave the olive tree to make Trump understand his need to build “A great wall” is against the principles of peace and justice.