Pope Francis funeral: President Trump and Melania will attend

[BumRushDaShow]

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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Confirming the handiwork.

[Jilly_in_VA]

1. Well, Melania is Catholic

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]

7. Heh!

* please see my post in the latest "Is he _____ yet?"

[OAITW r.2.0]

12. This could be the ultimate Godtest.

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]

2. I am hoping the Vatican will dis-invite him

[erronis]

6. Or if there is really a god who listens to christians (even RC ones): smite the bastard.

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

[electric_blue68]

8. Please see my reply to Jilly 😉

[dflprincess]

24. "Even RC ones"?

Even as a lapsed Catholic I find that a bit offensive.

[choie]

3. "We look forward to being there!"

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

[MIButterfly]

11. That was my first thought, too.

Who the hell looks forward to a funeral?

[dflprincess]

25. Well, I am looking forward to his

but that's different.

[DENVERPOPS]

17. Of course he looks forwards to it

Any excuse to get the hell out of Dodge.......It is really heating up here and he needs a place to hide out.......

[LudwigPastorius]

21. He's never been to the McDonald's near Vatican City.

So, you can understand his excitement.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

44. That's a nice photo of the St. Peter's dome.

Sad to see a Golden Arches sign messing it up.

[chia]

45. The sign's positioned in the photo to look intrusive, but I've rounded the corner walking to St. Peter's

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

[Historic NY]

35. We look forward to yours Trump

WTF is wrong with this guy

[Raine]

40. Arrested mental development. 😔 nt

[HeartsCanHope]

38. Exactly! How out of your mind do you have to be to say you look forward to a funeral?

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

[erronis]

4. I'm sure he'll push his way to the front of the cortege and make it look like his parade.

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]

19. There's a photo of her giving Trudeau a dreamy look....right in front of Slobbo

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

5. Have to say, I'm a little surprised that Satan was invited to the Pope's funeral.

[niyad]

34. Who says he was invited?

[JoseBalow]

9. He can't stand not being the center of attention

[PSPS]

10. His usual "bride at every wedding, corpse at every funeral" shtick

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]

13. If the Bidens and Obamas attend, no one will notice or care if the Trumps are there.n/t

[mdbl]

15. All for show

can't lose that support of the catholics who are magats.

[Norrrm]

16. There is a picture of the Pope with the Trumps. He has less than a full smile.

[hamsterjill]

18. "We look forward to being there"????

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]

20. Someone let the Hague know please...n/t

[Tarzanrock]

22. Better yet, arrested by the Swiss Guard; ...

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]

23. So, will Dump try and make the funeral all about himself, and not the pope?

[Groundhawg]

26. I'm ok with this.

[NoRethugFriends]

27. Why?

[dutch777]

28. Any justice they would invite Biden and disinvite Trump

[MissLilyBart]

29. "We look forward to being there!"

Does he think he's RSVPing for a party? *facepalm*

[dchill]

30. All well and good - just deny them re-entry when they return.

[PortTack]

31. This is about trying to steal attention...period. Vile creep

[usonian]

32. He won't be wearing a suit and tie.

[niyad]

33. Are they even invited?? And who announces that they are "looking forward"

to a funeral, in the normal course of things?

[Montauk6]

36. Will he be peddling Limited Edition Sistine Selfies?

At the low, low price of $500,000?

[Jack Valentino]

37. God is disappointed.

Oh well--- anything can happen !!!!!!!

[Sibelius Fan]

39. "Vatican welcomes rapist and victim of his infidelity to Pope's funeral."

[BlueMTexpat]

41. What a travesty! eom

[bmichaelh]

42. Church scene from Omen

[BumRushDaShow]

46. I still have the paperback novel of that

on my bookshelf.

[Canada Kid]

43. Even his handlers are stupid!

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.