{"id":2427462,"date":"2025-04-25T09:54:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T13:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-and-trump-to-reunite-at-pope-franciss-funeral\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T09:56:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T13:56:23","slug":"biden-and-trump-to-reunite-at-pope-franciss-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-and-trump-to-reunite-at-pope-franciss-funeral\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden and Trump to reunite at Pope Francis&#8217;s funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-and-trump-to-reunite-at-pope-franciss-funeral%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2427462&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former President Joe Biden, the second <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-is-off-to-a-fast-start-with-executive-orders-but-does-he-know-whats-in-them-and-can-he-explain-how-any-help-the-average-american\/\" title=\"Biden Is Off to a Fast Start with Executive Orders But Does He know What\u2019s In Them and Can He Explain How Any Help the Average American?\">catholic president<\/a> of the United States, will attend Pope Francis\u2019s funeral in Rome, alongside his wife, Dr.Jill Biden. The confirmation comes from a spokesperson for Biden. Notably, former presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush have stated they will not attend the funeral. bush\u2019s office mentioned he didn\u2019t have the chance to know pope Francis,while the Obamas released a statement praising the Pope for inspiring people to better themselves and for his compassionate gestures.<\/p>\n<p>It remains uncertain whether former President Bill Clinton will attend, as his office has not yet commented. Conversely, Donald Trump announced he and Melania will be present at the funeral. This significant event is scheduled for Saturday at 10 a.m. local time, just days after the Pope\u2019s passing. Trump&#8217;s participation has sparked speculation about potential meetings with European leaders, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who has expressed a desire to speak with him in person.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Biden to join Trump at Pope Francis&rsquo;s funeral, Bush and Obama will not attend<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2102754\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3388519\/jd-vance-pope-francis-meeting-blessing-death-american-politics-trump-administration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Joe Biden\">Joe Biden<\/a>, the nation&rsquo;s second Catholic president, will attend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/pope-francis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Joe Biden\">Pope Francis<\/a>&lsquo;s funeral this weekend in Rome.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;President Biden and Dr. Biden will attend Pope Francis&rsquo; funeral,&rdquo; a Biden spokesperson confirmed to the <em>Washington Examiner.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3391231\/trump-probationary-employee-federal-workforce-layoffs\/\">Trump overhauls probationary employee tenure process after federal workforce layoffs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3391188\/pressure-builds-trump-the-deal-maker\/\">Pressure builds on Trump the deal-maker to deliver<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/premium\/3385963\/middle-east-turkey-expansion-trump-administration-israel-military\/\">Turkey&rsquo;s expansionist Middle East aspirations don&#8217;t bother the Trump administration<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Biden did not attend the funeral of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in 2023, which occurred during his presidency. Benedict served as pope from 2005 through 2013, when he took the unusual step of becoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/catholic-students-sue-catholic-school-for-refusing-to-grant-religious-exemptions-to-covid-vax-mandate\/\" title=\"Catholic Students Sue Catholic School For Refusing To Grant Religious Exemptions To COVID Vax Mandate\">pope emeritus<\/a> at 85.<\/p>\n<p>Former presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush will not attend the funeral.<\/p>\n<p>Bush spokesman Freddy Ford said the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">43rd president &#038;ldquo<\/a>;did not have the privilege of knowing Pope Francis,&rdquo; and therefore was unlikely to attend. During his presidency, Bush attended the funeral of Pope John Paul II in 2005.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Obama also will not attend, though he and his wife, Michelle Obama, released a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BarackObama\/status\/1914299709344133351\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a>&nbsp;in honor of the pope<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Pope Francis was the rare leader who made us want to be better people,&rdquo; the Obamas said. &ldquo;In his humility and his gestures at once simple and profound &mdash; embracing the sick, ministering to the homeless, washing the feet of young prisoners &mdash; he shook us out of our complacency and reminded us that we are all bound by moral obligations to God and one another.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear whether President Bill Clinton will attend, and his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-johnson-survives-budget-fight-but-future-in-leadership-less-certain-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Mike Johnson survives budget fight, but future in leadership less certain - ...\">office didn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t respond to a request for comment. The former Democratic president released a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BillClinton\/status\/1914367486406836317\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"statement\">statement<\/a> saying Pope Francis &ldquo;made it clear that he would endeavor to embrace the entire world, including those of other faiths, those whom the church hadn&rsquo;t always welcomed, and anyone whose daily struggles reflected the enduring truth of our common humanity.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump announced earlier this week that he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3386791\/trump-pope-francis-funeral-rome\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"will attend\">will attend<\/a> the funeral, which will be held Saturday in Rome at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/news\/how-to-watch-pope-francis-funeral-time-rcna202774\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"10 a.m. local time\">10 a.m. local time<\/a> (4 a.m. Eastern), six days after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-dropping-most-jan-6-obstruction-charges-in-pending-cases-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"DOJ dropping most Jan. 6 obstruction charges in pending cases - ...\">pope&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s death.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Melania and I will be going to the funeral of Pope Francis, in Rome,&rdquo; Trump wrote on Truth Social. &ldquo;We look forward to being there!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Biden and Trump were last seen together in public on Jan. 20 during Trump&rsquo;s inauguration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-transform:uppercase\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3388519\/jd-vance-pope-francis-meeting-blessing-death-american-politics-trump-administration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Vance calls it a &lsquo;blessing&rsquo; to visit Pope Francis shortly before death\">Vance calls it a &lsquo;blessing&rsquo; to visit Pope Francis shortly before death<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump&rsquo;s presence has invited speculation on whether he will meet with European leaders during the trip, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky hoping to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign-policy\/3388488\/zelensky-trump-pope-funeral-meeting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"speak with him in person\">speak with him in person<\/a>. Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3389390\/ukrainian-prime-minister-denys-shmyhal-unscheduled-white-house-meeting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"was at the White House Wednesday\">was at the White House Wednesday<\/a>, the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Vice President JD Vance, a Catholic convert, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3388519\/jd-vance-pope-francis-meeting-blessing-death-american-politics-trump-administration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"not said\">not said<\/a> whether he will be at the funeral. Vance visited Pope Francis on Easter Sunday, less than 24 hours before his death.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2102754\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2102754\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden and Trump will attend Pope Francis&#8217;s funeral; Bush and Obama won&#8217;t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2635,"featured_media":2427463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Joe-Biden-Pope-Francis-funeral.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3620,50911,5894,34207,3634],"class_list":["post-2427462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-biden","tag-funeral-2","tag-politics","tag-pope-francis","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Joe-Biden-Pope-Francis-funeral.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2635"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2427462"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2427466,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427462\/revisions\/2427466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2427463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2427462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2427462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2427462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}