The Pope vs. Trump, socialism vs capitalism?

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I can only speak about the media here, but in the midst of tv reporters going on about how things will effect Trump, there seems to be a theme that they are missing...and to be more exact, I'm surprised that Trump didn't mention it in his defense to the Pope's statement. That is, the Pope is fairly outspoken regarding socialism and against capitalism. Does anyone think that that may have motivated the Pope's statement re. Trump, or implied statement re. Trump? To be honest, since the Pope is outspoken re. this, I think it must have been at least been on his mind...because as many have pointed out, Walls have been made by a few Popes...and maybe worse then mere walls-the Church has made many apologies in recent times. If issues are pushed, and I doubt they will be, it could go into an interesting war of words...especially re. the statement that such a person is "not a Christian." Historically, many Churchmen by that definition *may* not be Christians-and that may be worth pondering for the following reasons... Faith is often used in politics and is in itself a kind of industry-I believe there are sincere ministers (and hope to be found among them), but even in the early Church there were those called "Christ sellers", and more then once we have seen people offering money for ecclesiastical power. Questions about the sincerity of faith, may be helpful...especially since in politics we see people courting "the Christian vote", or other religious groups. What does it mean to be a Christian? And if someone thought they were in the right, and a "real" one, how should they act among others? That is, how should they react among those they thought were the "fake ones"? Aside from Jesus command to love one's enemies and pray for them, I would expect that if someone really believed in the evangel, that they would share that Goodnews as priority, as well as care for the poor. That is not a socialist statement, btw-it's a repeated commandment of Jesus. Historically speaking, at times the Church, in any form or ecclesiastical grouping, hasn't really been good at either of these. Is the Pope right...is Trump right...are they both wrong? In some sense that is what we are saying-at times we are all wrong, and Christian faith is dependent on the Grace of God given in Christ.