Sacraments and side-chats: Pope’s funeral overshadowed by Trump dealmaking

Trump held court at Pope’s funeral as politics, ritual mixed

Mr Trump said it was disrespectful to have meetings when at the funeral of a pope. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Trump Refuses to Give Biden Air Force One Ride to Pope’s Funeral

The MAGA president broke yet another presidential tradition in attending the late Pontiff’s funerary rites.

Sacraments and side-chats: Pope’s funeral overshadowed by Trump dealmaking

Emotional tributes to the popular Pope Francis came amid a diplomatic scramble to meet with the U.S. president.

Trump held court at pope funeral as politics, ritual mixed

St. Peter’s Square erupted in applause for Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Inside the Basilica, he and Donald Trump huddled with France’s Emmanuel Macron and Britain’s Keir Starmer. The occasion was the funeral of Pope Francis — but the optics were all…