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On 28 January 2017, the web site Bipartisan Report published an article reporting that Pope Francis had called out Trump for being an intolerant racist in regard to an executive order issued by President Trump that temporarily restricted entry into the U.S. for residents of select countries: Although the quoted statements attributed to Pope Francis are genuine, those comments were not made by the pontiff in response to President Trump's January 2017 executive order restricting travel to the U.S. Pope Francis made these remarks in October 2016, before Donald Trump was elected President or sworn into office, and the pontiff was addressing general rhetoric aimed at immigrants and refugees and not a specific piece of U.S. legislation. The Catholic Herald reported that the Pope spoke these words while talking to a group of Christian and Lutheran pilgrims from Germany:
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