The US president was reportedly promised a “third-tier” seat for Pope Francis’ funeral, but he ended up somewhere else.
Pope Francis’ funeral services started earlier today (April 28) after he passed away on April 21 at the age of 88.
In St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City, hundreds of thousands of people gathered to pay tribute to the departed holy leader. Among them are world leaders like UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and US President Donald Trump.
The seating arrangement for the burial, especially where Trump’s seat is, has generated a lot of online debate, though.
We anticipated giving Trump a “third-tier” seat for the service.
It was expected that Catholic royalty would be seated in the front row, followed by non-Catholic royals like Prince William, according to media sites, despite the Vatican’s lack of formal declarations before to the ceremony.
It was stated that Trump will likely finish up a few rows back because the heads of state and world leaders would be arranged alphabetically according to their country’s name in French.
According to the Holy See press office, Trump will eventually sit between the Estonian and Finnish leaders, MSNBC said.
As the head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, noted in an interview with the PA news agency in Rome, the seating arrangement also takes into consideration the intricate relationships between political leaders and “big egos.”
Former US President Joe Biden sat in row 14 during Queen Elizabeth II’s burial, but Trump has already expressed his views on the seating arrangements.
In a social media post at the time, Trump stated, “No respect.” […] Our nation would be very different from what it is today if I were president, and they wouldn’t have sat me back there.
In the end, Trump managed to get a front-row ticket despite early criticism for his manners—he was even referred to as a “disgrace to the US.”
In a gesture of respect and sorrow, the US president arrived dressed in a blue suit rather than the traditional black attire.
Trump is the only international leader who lacks the dignity to attend Pope Francis’ funeral in black, according to a tweet. The world and America are ashamed of him. Pope Francis is blessed.
Despite wearing a blue suit, another person said, “What is it with Trump that he didn’t even have the decency to wear a black tie?”
Another said, “Observe our tone deaf, fool President Trump at Pope Francis’s funeral, dressed in blue. We are constantly humiliated on the international front by this idiot with makeup.
