{"id":135191,"date":"2025-04-26T18:41:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T18:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/president-trump-and-former-president-biden-attend-pope-francis-funeral-see-photos-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T18:41:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T18:41:49","slug":"president-trump-and-former-president-biden-attend-pope-francis-funeral-see-photos-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/president-trump-and-former-president-biden-attend-pope-francis-funeral-see-photos-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"President Trump and former President Biden attend Pope Francis' funeral. See photos. – USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

World leaders including President Donald Trump<\/a> and former President Joe Biden<\/a> convened in Rome for the funeral of Pope Francis<\/a>.
Other world leaders<\/a>\u00a0in attendance included include UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Britain’s\u00a0Prince William,<\/a>\u00a0U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres, French President Emmanuel Macron and Ukrainian President\u00a0Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a>.
In all, more than a quarter-million people gathered in St. Peter\u2019s Square for Pope Francis\u2019 funeral<\/a> on Saturday, April 26. After the two-hour service, Francis was laid to rest in a private, religious afternoon ceremony within the Basilica of Saint Mary Major.
Trump and Pope Francis<\/a>\u00a0had clashed\u00a0over the president’s plans to deport millions of migrants from the U.S., with the pope calling Trump’s plan a “major crisis”<\/a> for the United States back in January.
First lady Melania Trump<\/a> accompanied the president to the pope’s funeral.
President Trump met with Zelenskyy<\/a> at the funeral in Rome. White House communications director Steven Cheung said the two “met privately today and had a very productive discussion.” A spokesman for Zelenskyy said the meeting lasted about 15 minutes.
Former President Biden<\/a> and former first lady Jill Biden sat farther back among the attendees. Biden, a devout Catholic, had been scheduled to travel to Rome to meet with Pope Francis near the end of his presidency, but canceled the trip<\/a> to remain focused on devastating wildfires in Los Angeles.
Biden was only the second Catholic president elected to office following John F. Kennedy, who was the first Catholic president after being elected in 1960.
Contributing: Joey Garrison, Kim Hjelmgaard<\/em>
Mike Snider is a reporter on USA TODAY\u2019s Trending team. You can follow him on Threads, Bluesky, X and email him at<\/em>mikegsnider<\/em><\/a> \u00a0& \u00a0<\/em>@mikegsnider.bsky.social<\/em><\/a> \u00a0& \u00a0<\/em>@mikesnider<\/em><\/a> & msnider@usatoday.com<\/em>
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World leaders including President Donald Trump and former President Joe Biden convened in Rome for the funeral of Pope Francis.Other world leaders\u00a0in attendance included include UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Britain’s\u00a0Prince William,\u00a0U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres, French President Emmanuel Macron and Ukrainian President\u00a0Volodymyr Zelenskyy.In all, more than a quarter-million people gathered in St. Peter\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":135192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}