The New York Daily News has continued it’s relentless attack on GOP frontrunner Donald Trump with a front cover declaring the billionaire candidate to be the Anti-Christ. Like David Duke has noted, now that Trump have the Republican nomination in his sight, “the Jewish knives are out.” [6] Depicting Trump with red scaly skin and flames flickering all around him, as if he is Satan, the newspaper took the Pope’s comments about Trump and made it seem as if the Pontiff was declaring Trump to be an evil false messiah. The Daily News only stopped short of adding horns to Trump’s image. [1] “Pope calls out hateful Trump: ‘A person who thinks only about building walls & not bridges is NOT CHRISTIAN,’ the tabloid said next to massive headline that declared, “Antichrist!” Francis was asked his opinion on Trump after a six-day visit to Mexico. “I say only that this man is not Christian if he has said things like that,” the pope said, referring to Trump’s promises to build a wall along the US-Mexico border. [2]
What the Pope actually said was that it is not very Christian to build walls rather than bridges – which is hardly a declaration that Trump is the devil. Trump responded to the Pope by re-tweeting several images of the Vatican’s heavily fortified walls. [1] Trump also fired back at the pope during a rally on Thursday in South Carolina, calling the religious leader’s choice to question Trump’s faith as “disgraceful.” [2] He said a religious leader should not engage in politics. “If and when the Vatican is attacked by ISIS, which everyone knows is ISIS’s ultimate trophy, I can promise you that the Pope would have only wished and prayed that Donald Trump would have been president,” Mr. Trump said. [5] The GOP frontrunner added that the Pope does not understand the Mexican government and that he “only heard one side of the story.” [4]
The Daily News has been launching scathing attacks against the Manhattan billionaire since he announced his campaign in June.
