THE Donald Trump departed for Rome, where he will attend tomorrow (26/04/2025) with his wife Melania at his funeral Pope Francisalong with leaders from all over the world.
US President Donald Trump is expected to arrive in the Italian capital around 22.50 local time while it’s about to meet with other leaders after the funeral of Pope Francis.
«We will meet many leaders of foreign countries»On the sidelines of the funeral, he revealed to reporters himself just before leaving the White House, But without specifying exactly who.
Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski said Tuesday that would “want” to meet his American counterpart in the Vatican.
Donald Trump accused him last week of sabotaging a future peace deal with Russia.
Initially, he was foreseen, as he did during his first term (2017-2021), to go to Saudi Arabia for his first trip abroad, but Pope Francis’ death changed his plans.
The Republican billionaire, who He identifies himself as a Christian “without religious identity”ordered the flags to wave in the US in the US in memory of Argentine Pontiff, who had denounced his anti -immigration policy. Today, he told Francis that he was a “wonderful” man who “loved the world”.
With the sincerity that characterized him, Pontiff had disapproved of Donald Trump since February 2016, when the Republican was still a candidate for the White House, saying: “A man who wants to build walls and not bridges is not a Christian».
The former US president, Democratic Joe Biden, who had close relations with Francis, will attend the funeral with his wife Jill, but will travel independently and not as a guest of his successor, according to his office.
For the funeral of Pope Ioannis Pavlos II in 2005, President George W. Bush had taken with him two of his predecessors: Bill Clinton and his father George Bush the Elder.