{"id":9603,"date":"2017-05-24T12:05:31","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T16:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/?p=9603"},"modified":"2017-05-24T10:08:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T14:08:28","slug":"pope-donald-francis-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2017\/05\/pope-donald-francis-trump.html","title":{"rendered":"Pope Donald Francis Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/the-american-catholic.com\/2017\/05\/24\/popewatch-separated-at-birth-3\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">One and the same<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Heh. \u00a0Tis true. \u00a0If their conclusions and premises are different, there is a similarity between how Pope Francis conducts himself and how President Trump conducts himself. \u00a0Apart from the crude, vulgar language of Trump, there is more than one point of connection.<\/p>\n<p>I remember when Pope John Paul II met with Ronald Reagan in 1982. Big enough news that even this liberal agnostic 9th grader\u00a0heard the scuttlebutt. \u00a0The similarity between the two was pointed out then. \u00a0It\u2019s not surprising that people today will notice the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/acts-of-faith\/wp\/2016\/02\/19\/what-donald-trump-and-pope-francis-actually-have-in-common\/?utm_term=.cd5317012c1f\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">similarity between Pope Francis and President Trump today<\/a>. And in more ways than one.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One and the same. Heh. \u00a0Tis true. \u00a0If their conclusions and premises are different, there is a similarity between how Pope Francis conducts himself and how President Trump conducts himself. \u00a0Apart from the crude, vulgar language of Trump, there is more than one point of connection. I remember when Pope John Paul II met with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,9,51],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-9603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-insights","category-news","category-the-pope","tag-current-events"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pope Donald Francis Trump<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"One and the same. 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