Ann Coulter just couldn’t help herself.
As Pope Francis paid a visit to the White House this morning, opening his remarks to 11,000 ticketed guests by noting that immigrants helped build the United States of America, the conservative flamethrower greeted His Holiness with a series of ugly nativists tweets, claiming Pope Francis’ teachings on economics are why the nation’s founding fathers excluded Catholics from citizenship, seemingly excusing anti-Catholic bigotry.
Coulter’s tweet was in response to one by fellow conservative commentator and Rush Limbaugh’s brother, David, chiding Pope Francis for speaking out against economic inequality:
I'm an American and this is why our founders (not "immigrants"!) distrusted Catholics & wouldn't make them citizens. https://t.co/7IV6J7ODAv
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) September 23, 2015
Catholics were not accepted until they became more AMERICAN Catholic less ROMAN Catholic-Harvard's Samuel Huntington https://t.co/7IV6J7ODAv
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) September 23, 2015
Equally accurate statement to the Pope's: The Catholic Church was "largely built by pedophiles." https://t.co/PPgCKFIe08
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) September 23, 2015
When Coulter was hit with backlash linking her latest nativist screed with last week’s rant complaining of GOP presidential candidates pandering to “f—ing Jews,” she defended her anti-Catholic rant as “historical facts” — and said nothing of her gratuitous knock on immigrants:
No, I'm attacking the Pope. So did Martin Luther. So did America's settlers. So did Dems when it was John Paul II. https://t.co/fMO4Pb09HZ
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) September 23, 2015
THIS Pope's philosophy of worshiping the poor, blaming the rich leads to Latin American poverty. American Catholicism leads to success.
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) September 23, 2015
This isn't a "thought" – it's fact about American history. Historical facts are now hate crimes. https://t.co/Gh9fwxK8rO
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) September 23, 2015
