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'Working funeral' in Vatican
THE WEEK India
|May 04, 2025
Donald Trump tweeted, “Melania and I will be going to the funeral of Pope Francis, in Rome.
We look forward to being there!” This didn’t go down well with the nit-picky folks on X, because who “looks forward” to going to a funeral? It isn’t exactly a wedding, or a music festival or some sort of Roman holiday. Surely something in the general zone of ‘we will be attending to pay our last respects’ would have been more suitable?
But may be it’s the best one can expect from a man who says world leaders are call-ing to “kiss my ass”, describes a free nation as his ‘51st state’ and calls the head of his own federal reserve “a major loser”. Talking classy isn’t his strong suit, clearly.
On the other hand, perhaps Trump's onto something. If you've seen the hilarious BBC series
This story is from the May 04, 2025 edition of THE WEEK India.
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