President Trump’s meeting with Pope Francis seemed to capture not just the success he’s having on this foreign trip, but the progress he’s made since he and the pontiff were at odds during the campaign. The pundits initially viewed the nine-day journey as an attempted distraction from their preferred story, the Russia investigation. It was telling that Trump gave the Pope books by Martin Luther King while Francis gave him his encyclical on the environment. It was a little more than a year ago that the Pope took a swipe at candidate Trump’s proposals on building a border wall and deporting illegal immigrants. Trump’s rejoinder: “If and when the Vatican is attacked, the Pope would only wish and have prayed that Donald Trump would have been elected president.”Seems like eons ago.

Source: Fox News May 25, 2017 09:00 UTC