'Trump will be out of place at Pope Francis's funeral'

[sop]

"Donald Trump, who never likes to miss a chance to show off his mug at an international event, announced he is going to Pope Francis’s funeral on Saturday. It’s an odd choice for a president whose policies Pope Francis abhorred and routinely denounced."

“'In 2015, [Pope Francis] penned the first-ever papal encyclical focused solely on the environment,' the New York Times reported. This 'sprawling call to action… recognized climate change as both a social and environmental crisis, and emphasized that its greatest consequences were shouldered by the poor.' At the signing of the Paris Agreement that year, 'at least 10 world leaders made specific reference to the pope’s words during their addresses to the United Nations climate conference.'..Trump has since pulled out of the Paris Agreement, rolled back anti-climate change actions, curtailed scientific study, installed ideological know-nothings at the EPA, and fawned over the fossil fuel industry."

"Trump’s assault on immigrants’ rights likewise highlights the moral gap between the most xenophobic modern president and the pope most attuned to the plight of migrants. The Pope’s death came in the midst of the most egregiously unconstitutional and cruel anti-immigrant dragnet launched by a U.S. president. He and his toadies have consigned legal U.S. residents to a hellhole gulag in El Salvador, smeared a Maryland father as an MS-13 gang member, and rousted students off the streets without warning, under the flimsy guise of fighting antisemitism."

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/trump-will-be-out-of-place-at-pope?utm_medium=web