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BumRushDaShow

(157,675 posts)
Mon Apr 21, 2025, 06:42 PM Apr 2025

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/



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Pope Francis funeral: President Trump and Melania will attend (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Apr 2025 OP
Well, Melania is Catholic Jilly_in_VA Apr 2025 #1
Heh! electric_blue68 Apr 2025 #7
This could be the ultimate Godtest. OAITW r.2.0 Apr 2025 #12
I am hoping the Vatican will dis-invite him lapfog_1 Apr 2025 #2
Or if there is really a god who listens to christians (even RC ones): smite the bastard. erronis Apr 2025 #6
Please see my reply to Jilly 😉 electric_blue68 Apr 2025 #8
"Even RC ones"? dflprincess Apr 2025 #24
"We look forward to being there!" choie Apr 2025 #3
That was my first thought, too. MIButterfly Apr 2025 #11
Well, I am looking forward to his dflprincess Apr 2025 #25
Of course he looks forwards to it DENVERPOPS Apr 2025 #17
He's never been to the McDonald's near Vatican City. LudwigPastorius Apr 2025 #21
That's a nice photo of the St. Peter's dome. Prof. Toru Tanaka Apr 2025 #44
The sign's positioned in the photo to look intrusive, but I've rounded the corner walking to St. Peter's chia Apr 2025 #45
We look forward to yours Trump Historic NY Apr 2025 #35
Arrested mental development. 😔 nt Raine Apr 2025 #40
Exactly! How out of your mind do you have to be to say you look forward to a funeral? HeartsCanHope Apr 2025 #38
I'm sure he'll push his way to the front of the cortege and make it look like his parade. erronis Apr 2025 #4
There's a photo of her giving Trudeau a dreamy look....right in front of Slobbo CTyankee Apr 2025 #19
Have to say, I'm a little surprised that Satan was invited to the Pope's funeral. InAbLuEsTaTe Apr 2025 #5
Who says he was invited? niyad Apr 2025 #34
He can't stand not being the center of attention JoseBalow Apr 2025 #9
His usual "bride at every wedding, corpse at every funeral" shtick PSPS Apr 2025 #10
If the Bidens and Obamas attend, no one will notice or care if the Trumps are there.n/t SheilaAnn Apr 2025 #13
This message was self-deleted by its author SheilaAnn Apr 2025 #14
All for show mdbl Apr 2025 #15
There is a picture of the Pope with the Trumps. He has less than a full smile. Norrrm Apr 2025 #16
"We look forward to being there"???? hamsterjill Apr 2025 #18
Someone let the Hague know please...n/t the nelm Apr 2025 #20
Better yet, arrested by the Swiss Guard; ... Tarzanrock Apr 2025 #22
So, will Dump try and make the funeral all about himself, and not the pope? sakabatou Apr 2025 #23
I'm ok with this. Groundhawg Apr 2025 #26
Why? NoRethugFriends Apr 2025 #27
Any justice they would invite Biden and disinvite Trump dutch777 Apr 2025 #28
"We look forward to being there!" MissLilyBart Apr 2025 #29
All well and good - just deny them re-entry when they return. dchill Apr 2025 #30
This is about trying to steal attention...period. Vile creep PortTack Apr 2025 #31
He won't be wearing a suit and tie. usonian Apr 2025 #32
Are they even invited?? And who announces that they are "looking forward" niyad Apr 2025 #33
Will he be peddling Limited Edition Sistine Selfies? Montauk6 Apr 2025 #36
God is disappointed. Jack Valentino Apr 2025 #37
"Vatican welcomes rapist and victim of his infidelity to Pope's funeral." Sibelius Fan Apr 2025 #39
What a travesty! eom BlueMTexpat Apr 2025 #41
Church scene from Omen bmichaelh Apr 2025 #42
I still have the paperback novel of that BumRushDaShow Apr 2025 #46
Even his handlers are stupid! Canada Kid Apr 2025 #43

Jilly_in_VA

(12,601 posts)
1. Well, Melania is Catholic
Mon Apr 21, 2025, 06:45 PM
Apr 2025

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.

OAITW r.2.0

(30,490 posts)
12. This could be the ultimate Godtest.
Mon Apr 21, 2025, 07:13 PM
Apr 2025

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.

erronis

(20,860 posts)
6. Or if there is really a god who listens to christians (even RC ones): smite the bastard.
Mon Apr 21, 2025, 06:49 PM
Apr 2025

Oooh. Jilly_in_va - I see you got there before me. Need to type faster!

choie

(5,914 posts)
3. "We look forward to being there!"
Mon Apr 21, 2025, 06:46 PM
Apr 2025

It's not a party, you unempathetic, uncompassionate cretin.

DENVERPOPS

(13,003 posts)
17. Of course he looks forwards to it
Mon Apr 21, 2025, 07:43 PM
Apr 2025

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)
21. He's never been to the McDonald's near Vatican City.
Mon Apr 21, 2025, 09:53 PM
Apr 2025

So, you can understand his excitement.

chia

(2,615 posts)
45. The sign's positioned in the photo to look intrusive, but I've rounded the corner walking to St. Peter's
Tue Apr 22, 2025, 09:32 AM
Apr 2025

and to suddenly see it come into view - it's overwhelming, it's incredible, no thought to anything else.

HeartsCanHope

(1,177 posts)
38. Exactly! How out of your mind do you have to be to say you look forward to a funeral?
Tue Apr 22, 2025, 02:30 AM
Apr 2025

Although, I'm sure a lot of people will look forward to Trump's!

erronis

(20,860 posts)
4. I'm sure he'll push his way to the front of the cortege and make it look like his parade.
Mon Apr 21, 2025, 06:48 PM
Apr 2025

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.)

PSPS

(14,777 posts)
10. His usual "bride at every wedding, corpse at every funeral" shtick
Mon Apr 21, 2025, 07:09 PM
Apr 2025

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.

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hamsterjill

(16,208 posts)
18. "We look forward to being there"????
Mon Apr 21, 2025, 07:54 PM
Apr 2025

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.

 

Tarzanrock

(1,250 posts)
22. Better yet, arrested by the Swiss Guard; ...
Mon Apr 21, 2025, 09:56 PM
Apr 2025

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.

niyad

(125,833 posts)
33. Are they even invited?? And who announces that they are "looking forward"
Tue Apr 22, 2025, 12:24 AM
Apr 2025

to a funeral, in the normal course of things?

 

Canada Kid

(257 posts)
43. Even his handlers are stupid!
Tue Apr 22, 2025, 08:56 AM
Apr 2025

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.

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