Pope Francis funeral: President Trump and Melania will attend
Source: USA Today
Updated April 21, 2025, 4:31 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON − President Donald Trump announced he will attend Pope Francis' funeral in Rome with first lady Melania Trump.
"Melania and I will be going to the funeral of Pope Francis, in Rome. We look forward to being there!" he posted on Truth Social on April 21.
Francis died Easter Monday of a stroke and irreversible heart failure, Vatican doctor Andrea Arcangeli said in a death certificate.
The pope's death on April 21 came one day after Francis greeted thousands in St. Peter's Square after Easter Mass in his open-air popemobile.
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/21/president-first-lady-attend-pope-francis-funeral/83201308007/
Confirming the handiwork.

Jilly_in_VA
(12,601 posts)but I wonder if the orange slime will be hit with a lightning bolt when he arrives. Takes a lot of guts (or sheer blind ignorance and chutzpah) for him to show up.
electric_blue68
(22,869 posts)* please see my post in the latest "Is he _____ yet?"
OAITW r.2.0
(30,490 posts)Will He allow this disciple of the Devil to desecrate the most sacred of RC sanctums?
I'm betting yes. He didn't do anything with Pius XII.
lapfog_1
(31,176 posts)erronis
(20,860 posts)Oooh. Jilly_in_va - I see you got there before me. Need to type faster!
electric_blue68
(22,869 posts)dflprincess
(28,952 posts)Even as a lapsed Catholic I find that a bit offensive.
choie
(5,914 posts)It's not a party, you unempathetic, uncompassionate cretin.
MIButterfly
(939 posts)Who the hell looks forward to a funeral?
dflprincess
(28,952 posts)but that's different.
DENVERPOPS
(13,003 posts)Any excuse to get the hell out of Dodge.......It is really heating up here and he needs a place to hide out.......
LudwigPastorius
(13,103 posts)So, you can understand his excitement.

Prof. Toru Tanaka
(2,743 posts)Sad to see a Golden Arches sign messing it up.
chia
(2,615 posts)and to suddenly see it come into view - it's overwhelming, it's incredible, no thought to anything else.
Historic NY
(39,174 posts)WTF is wrong with this guy
Raine
(30,915 posts)HeartsCanHope
(1,177 posts)Although, I'm sure a lot of people will look forward to Trump's!
erronis
(20,860 posts)Melanomia will avert her eyes (unless Justin Trudeau is there) and give her patented "Do I Look Like I Care" pouty face. (hmmm. pouty comes up as mispelled. Perhaps I should use putey. The French have a good term for her (and donald): pute.)
CTyankee
(66,701 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(25,406 posts)niyad
(125,833 posts)JoseBalow
(8,057 posts)
PSPS
(14,777 posts)He has to always keep the spotlight on himself. Even the death of a pope won't get in his way!
His statement today included only a passing pseudo-positive reference to the pope. "He was a good man." At least he didn't say, "people say he was a good man."
But, still, he had to try to wrest the focus back onto himself. He said he "had ordered" flags fly at half-mast. "Federal and state too!" That was it. Nothing about the pope's work, his value, anything. Compare that to what other world leaders were saying. They would take the time to talk about the impact Pope Francis had on them personally as well as his effect on the world. Trump is incapable of even thinking such things, let alone utter them.
Oh, well. He'll get to be fawned over again by Italian far-right prime minister Giorgia Meloni, who is referred to as "the Italian trump." Trivia note: She was the only EU leader invited to trump's inauguration.
SheilaAnn
(10,478 posts)Response to BumRushDaShow (Original post)
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mdbl
(7,074 posts)can't lose that support of the catholics who are magats.
Norrrm
(2,621 posts)hamsterjill
(16,208 posts)God, how trashy can one idiot get. On top of everything else, he is just such a HUGE embarrassment in the ways of protocol and dignity.
the nelm
(129 posts)Tarzanrock
(1,250 posts)taken to the Vatican Necropolis; where multiple exorcisms are performed by plenty available clergy to evict the demons, jinns and other malevolent spiritual entities from his being; and, if the exorcisms fail, then put to death for Blasphemy and Heresy.
sakabatou
(45,161 posts)Groundhawg
(1,146 posts)NoRethugFriends
(3,452 posts)dutch777
(4,673 posts)MissLilyBart
(122 posts)Does he think he's RSVPing for a party? *facepalm*
dchill
(42,660 posts)PortTack
(35,689 posts)usonian
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niyad
(125,833 posts)to a funeral, in the normal course of things?
Montauk6
(9,179 posts)At the low, low price of $500,000?
Jack Valentino
(2,901 posts)Oh well--- anything can happen !!!!!!!
Sibelius Fan
(24,720 posts)BlueMTexpat
(15,597 posts)bmichaelh
(887 posts)BumRushDaShow
(157,675 posts)on my bookshelf.
Canada Kid
(257 posts)Last edited Fri Apr 25, 2025, 08:08 AM - Edit history (1)
When he finally acknowledged the passing of the Pope, the idiot and his slut wife made the announcement from a balcony at the White House, during an Easter celebration. Standing alongside is some guy dressed in a giant rabbit costume...waving! This all while he is giving condolences. You would think someone would have the intelligence to move the rabbit out of the camera's view. This looks disrespectful and downright stupid...but then again...this is Trump's people.