Pope Francis met President Trump this morning and they appear to have hit it off. After a 30-minute meeting in the Vatican, the president emerged beaming, describing the private audience as ‘the honour of a lifetime’. The Pope, too, was described as ‘grinning from ear to ear’.
We don’t know if the two men discussed global warming, on which they famously disagree. Francis did give Trump a copy of Laudato Si’, his encyclical on the environment – but as Christoper Lamb, Rome correspondent of the left-wing Tablet, glumly tweeted: ‘No mention of climate change in Vatican statement’.
Lamb is not a happy bunny today. Last week he was excited about ‘the potential for fireworks’ at the meeting:
The Pope has become a de facto leader of the globalist, compassionate post-war consensus with his focus on refugees, climate change and inequality while the president is a more unpredictable figure.
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