Trump will attend Pope Francis’ funeral in Rome despite contentious past

president Trump indicated on Monday – after the news of the death of Pope Francis – that he and the first lady Melania Trump will attend the funeral of the Pope in the Vatican, despite the somewhat controversial president’s history with the late leader of the Catholic Church.

Traditionally, the papal funerals are held four to six days after her death, so Francis is expected to take place before the end of the month. The Vatican spokesman Matteo Brunei told reporters that the General Group of Crue will take place on Tuesday morning, and a careful date for the funeral must be set.

Trump posted on the social media platform on the social media platform on the social media platform on Monday afternoon: “I will and I go to the funeral of Pope Francis, in Rome.” “We look forward to being there!”

The funeral of Pope Francis will be a simplified version of the previous papal funerals, according to its change in the papal funeral rituals

Trump’s advertisement follows that he will travel to Rome to attend the ceremony after a separate announcement issued earlier in the day, indicating that he ordered all American flags for government reasons, including military installments and embassies abroad, to fly in half of the staff until sunset on Monday.

Trump’s relationship with Pope Francis over the years was one of the ideological differences and sometimes tension.

Amid the first Trump in favor of his post, Pope Francis criticized one of Trump’s signatures to build a wall along the southern border, describing the move “not a Christian” in 2016.

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“The person who only thinks about building walls, wherever, not, not building bridges is not a Christian,” Francis told reporters during an interview in the middle of the trip on his way to Mexico in 2016.

Pope Francis criticized President Trump’s collective deportation plan on Sunday during an interview describing it as a “shame”. (Photo by Tiziana Fabi/AFP via Getty Images/Photo by Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)

Meanwhile, Trump returned to the Pope’s statements, on the pretext that he was “disgraceful” for the Pope, or any religious leader in this regard, to interrogate another person’s faith.

“If the Vatican was attacked by ISIS, which everyone knows is the final cup of ISIS, I can promise you that the Pope only wanted to be Donald Trump as president because this will not happen,” Trump said in a statement issued by his team after criticizing the Pope. “ISIS could have been eliminated, contrary to what is happening now with all our conversations, nor work politicians.”

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During the life of Francis, it was also aimed at increasing national feelings around the world, a criticism that implicitly targeted Trump’s “first” agenda.

Francis was also a believer in climate change represented a major problem for society, which Trump also differs. In each of Trump’s first and second periods, the United States removed international climate agreements in Paris, an international initiative aimed at reducing global warming.

Pope Francis, President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, meets the Special Library of the Holy Palace with his wife, Melania, his daughter Ivanka Trump, and her husband, Jared Kushner. Vatican City, May 24, 2017. (Vatican/billiards/Galazka/Archivio Grzegorz Galazka/Mondadori via Getty Images)

Trump, who considers himself Christian but not Catholic, met Francis once during his first term. On the contrary, Joe Biden, a confirmed Catholic, met with Francis personally on multiple occasions throughout his one -term period.

Trump’s Vice President JD Vance, Catholic himself, was one of the last visitors of the Pope, and his vision on Easter on Sunday – one day before the death of Francis.

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