President Trump stated on Monday, after the news of the death of Pope Francis, that he and the first lady Melania Trump will attend the pope’s funeral. the Vatican, Despite the a little controversial story of the President with the deceased leader of the Catholic Church.
Traditionally, papal funerals take place four to six days after his death, so the Francis funeral is expected to take place before the end of the month. Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni told journalists That the general congregation of the cardinals will take place on Tuesday morning, during which an exact date for the funeral should be decided.
« Melania and I will go to the funeral of Pope Francis, In Rome, « Trump published on his social network TRUTH social network platform on Monday afternoon. » We hope to be! « »
Pope Francis encounters President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump at the Apostolic Palace on May 24, 2017 in the Vatican City, Vatican. (Pictures of the Vatican/Getty)
Trump’s announcement that he would travel to Rome for the ceremony followed a separate announcement that he made before the day, indicating that he had ordered all American flags for government reasons, including military quotas and embassies abroad, to fly half the floor until the Monday of sunset.
Trump’s relationship with Pope Francis over the years was marked by ideological differences and sometimes tension.
In the midst of Trump’s first career for the post, Pope Francis criticized one of the promises of Trump’s campaign Building a wall along the southern border, Calling the « non -Christian » movement in 2016.
« A person who thinks only of the creation of walls, wherever he or she is, and not building bridges, is not a Christian, » Francis told journalists during a half -flight interview on his way to Mexico in 2016, according to a translation by The Associated Press.
Pope Francis criticized President Trump’s mass deportation plan on Sunday during an interview calling -the « unfortunate ». (Photo by Tiziana Fabi/AFP through Getty Images/Photo by Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)
Trump, meanwhile, fired on the pontiff’s statements, arguing that it was « unpleasant » that the Pope or any religious leader on this subject questioned another person’s faith.
« If and when the Vatican is attacked by Isis, who, as everyone knows that is Isis’s final trophy, can promise that the Pope would only have wanted and pray Donald Trump would have been president because this would not have happened, « Trump said to a statement Released by his team following the criticism of the Pope. « Isis would have been eradicated as opposed to what is happening now with our talk, without politicians of action. »
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During Francis’s life, it also aimed to increase nationalist feelings worldwide, the criticism that implicitly directed the « first » agenda of Trump America.
Francis was also a believer in climate change that raised an important problem for society, which Trump also differed with him. In the first and terms of Trump, the United States has taken out of the Paris International Climate Agreements, which is an international initiative aimed at mitigating global warming.
Pope Francis encounters the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, in the private library of the apostolic palace with his wife Melania, his daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner. Vatican City, May 24, 2017. (Vatican/Pool/Galazka/Grzegorz Galazka/Mondadori Archive through Getty Images)
Trump, who is considered a Christian but is not Catholic, only met with Francis once during the first term. On the contrary, Joe Biden, That he is a confirmed Catholic, he met with Francis in person on several occasions throughout his presidency in a term.
Trump’s vice president JD VANCE, A Catholic himself, was significantly one of the last visitors of the Pope, seeing him on Easter Sunday, a day before Francis passed.
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