President Trump and first woman Melania Trump paid their respects to Pope Francis forward of the pontiff’s funeral on Saturday morning.
The Trumps arrived in Italy on Friday for the primary worldwide journey of his second time period, and simply in time for Melania’s fifty fifth birthday, which additionally fell on Saturday.
“She’s got a working birthday,” Trump informed reporters on Air Power One on Friday.
“I’ll take her for dinner on the Boeing,” Trump joked when requested how they might be celebrating. “I’ll take her for dinner on Air Force One.”
Earlier than heading to Rome, Trump praised the late pontiff as a “good man” who “loved the world.”
“I thought he was a fantastic kind of guy,” Trump stated.
Trump and Francis had beforehand sparred on immigration. In 2016, Pope Francis referred to as plans for mass deportations a “disgrace.”
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The president and first woman had been seated together with the US delegation between Ethiopia and Eswatini, previously often called Swaziland, on account of Vatican protocol that organizes world leaders in alphabetical order in response to the title of their nation in French.
The delegation included Reps. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.), Laura Gillen (D-N.Y.) and Sens. Dick Durbin (D-In poor health.) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.).
Former President Joe Biden attended the funeral alongside his spouse Jill Biden.
Numerous different world leaders gathered on the funeral together with United Kingdom Prime Minister Kier Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
