Trump: ‘I Don’t Think the Pope Is Opposed to Capitalism’
CUOMO: “All right. So let me ask you about the pope, the pope’s coming, do you want to meet him?”
TRUMP: “Well I’m Protestant, but I have great respect for the pope, I like the pope I actually like him his becoming very political there’s no question about it, but I like him he seems like a pretty good guy.”
CUOMO: “So here’s the moment you meet the pope, Pope Francis comes.”
TRUMP: “Right.”
CUOMO: “There’s a translator there –“
TRUMP: “Right.”
CUOMO: “And he says Mr. Trump this is very nice then he says, you know, I want to tell him something the translator says to you, the pope believes that capitalism can be a real avenue to greed, it can be really toxic and corrupt and he’s shaking his finger you and he says, what do you say in response to the pope?”
TRUMP: “I’d say ISIS wants to get you. You know, that ISIS wants to go in and take over the Vatican, you have heard that, you know, that’s a dream of theirs to go into Italy –“
CUOMO: “He talks to you about capitalism –“
TRUMP: “You do know that –“
CUOMO: “You scare the pope.”
TRUMP: “I -- I no, no I do not have to scare the pope because it’s, you know, they there’s only one, look the pope -- I hope can only be scared by God –“
CUOMO: “Is the [indecipherable] over here?”
TRUMP: “I hope can only be scared by God, but the truth is, you know, if you look at what’s going on, they better hope the capitalism works, because it’s the only thing we have right now and it’s a great thing when it works properly. In our country, Chris, it has not been working properly.
CUOMO: The capitalism hasn’t?”
TRUMP: It has not been working properly.”
CUOMO: Do take him serious when he says –“
TRUMP: “Between -- excuse me. Between regulations, between all of the Dodd-Frank between all of the different things that have been imposed, we are uncompetitive like we used to be, we have to open up our country to great capitalism. No, I don’t think the pope is opposed to capitalism by the way, I’ve seen a lot of what he supposed to and I don’t think the pope is opposed to capitalism.”
