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Grassley live-tweets Pope Francis visit

Sen. Chuck Grassley is going on a Pontifex-inspired Twitter storm, live tweeting Pope Francis’ visit to the White House.

The Iowa Republican’s tweet fest began at sunrise on Wednesday:

Grassley gave a blurry view on Instagram from his vantage point.

And let his more than 90,000 Twitter followers in on every minute detail of the historic event:

The senator, 82, even expressed surprise at the chummy atmosphere ahead of the pope’s remarks:

But after eagerly anticipating Francis’ arrival, Grassley appeared to get antsy:

Although that didn’t appear to go over too well with some of his followers:

And Grassley kvetched about his commute back to work: