Donald Trump announces meeting with Pope Francis in Italy before it is finalized
Source: Guardian
Donald Trump announces meeting with Pope Francis in Italy before it is finalized
White House spokesman said presidents declared visit with pope, who has opposing views on the border wall and climate change, is not confirmed
David Smith in Washington
Thursday 20 April 2017 18.44 ED
Donald Trump has signalled that he expects to meet Pope Francis, with whom he has clashed in the past, when he travels to Italy next month.
The US president will be in Italy late May for a meeting of the G7 industrialised democracies. An audience with the pontiff would bring together two wildly contrasting world views.
I look very much forward to meeting the pope, said on Thursday in a joint press conference at the White House with Italian prime minister Paolo Gentiloni.
Minutes later Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, admitted that the meeting has not yet been confirmed. Trumps assertion now risks making a non-meeting look like a snub.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/20/donald-trump-pope-francis-meeting-italy
47of74
(18,470 posts)The second one is yourself.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)spare from taking care of the poor to meet with a schmuck!
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)And meeting the Pope won't help that one bit. Besides, he won't remember meeting him anyway.
Judi Lynn
(160,542 posts)to attend the meeting with him at the White House.
Yonnie3
(17,441 posts)Dare I hope?
kydo
(2,679 posts)Maybe Pope Francis should say, "Okay, But no handshakes. He can bow and kiss my ring. And give him a Papal gift bag with the soap and a rosary. Oh include one of those little prayer cards with my picture."
Yonnie3
(17,441 posts)it's not my ring I would tell him to kiss.
dobleremolque
(491 posts)I wonder if Trump will demand that the Pope let him pass out some of those "little crackers" to folks in the crowd.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)I wonder if he will insist on getting a ride in the Pope mobile?
BHDem53
(1,061 posts)the Dope Mobile?
Doreen
(11,686 posts)that he would fit in the Fiat.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)elmac
(4,642 posts)niyad
(113,315 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Most evangelicals don't think Catholics are even Christians.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)It's useless on dt, but perhaps the minions can be saved.
And Holy Water. Maybe he can dissolve dt with it.