We all know that Trump is a vindictive prick. I mean a total asshole. Richard Branson has written that when he met Trump the man spent the entire time talking about getting revenge on 5 people who hadn’t helped him when he asked for it.
"Even before the starters arrived he began telling me about how he had asked a number of people for help after his latest bankruptcy and how five of them were unwilling to help," Branson wrote, although he didn't identify the five people.
"He told me he was going to spend the rest of his life destroying these five people."
Branson called the encounter "bizarre" and expressed concerns about Trump's "vindictive streak," which he said wouldn't bode well for a president who should be more concerned with global affairs than personal vendettas.
"I left the lunch feeling disturbed and saddened by what I'd heard. There are a lot of frightening things about this election," he wrote, "not least that policy has been pushed so far down the agenda."
So Trump’s latest dick move was to not invite devout Catholic Sean Spicer along when he met the Pope, and Spicey is livid about it.
Some reports are that Spicer meeting the Pope was “All He Wanted”.
Politico quoted a Spicer interview about his faith during the presidential transition in which he said, “I’m going to look to God every day to give me the strength to do what’s right. That’s all you can ask for is to get up and say, ‘Can I do this thing?’ Help guide me and ask Him for strength.”
This makes it doubly curious that Spicer did not attend. Last year, Spicer told members of the media that he was giving up alcohol for Lent. He also attended a press briefing one Ash Wednesday with a smudged, sooty cross on his forehead, an ancient Catholic observance during Holy Week.
Rumors have flown for weeks that Spicer could be the next high-profile member of the Trump administration to lose their job. Melania Trump is reportedly especially eager to have Spicer gone at the end of the current international trip.
It seems needlessly mean, however, to deny Spicer what could be his single chance to meet a sitting Pope.
Yeah, ya think?
CNN’s political director David Chalian told “New Day” on Thursday that it’s very clear that relations have soured between the president and his chief spokesman and that sources traveling with the White House entourage say that Spicer is livid in the wake of the snub.
“Is it true that he’s upset about not meeting the Pope? Is there any significance to this?” asked host Chris Cuomo.
“Our reporter traveling with them says that Spicer was fuming,” said Chalian. “How big of a deal? I’m sure that it’s a big deal for Sean Spicer.”
All the worse is the fact that the people who did go to meet the Pope, including the Pope, didn’t look like they wanted to be there.
It wasn’t quite like that when Obama met the Pope.