It is an abomination that Donald Trump Will set foot on Saint-Pierre square on Saturday under the pretension of honoring Pope Francis. He is not there to cry. He is not there to represent the United States significantly. He's there because the cameras will be.
Trump will be there for the same reason He brutally pushed The Prime Minister of Montenegro Dusko Markovic away at the NATO 2017 NATO summit. He will be there for the same reason he publishes Bizarre rants at 3 h on his social truth. He will be there for the same reason that he plays a chicken game with countries around the world with booming prices. And again and again.
The only reason for which Trump attends Francis's funeral is to launch the spotlight, feed the bottomless void of his ego, and transform a moment of global mourning into another grotesque slideshow, everything on Trump.
The eyes of the world will be on Saint-Pierre square on Saturday, and Trump will not miss this colossal media event for anything in the world. And there is no reason in the world that Trump should be there. I think Pope Francis has tried to love everyone, and I also think that Francis could identify a false – and a blatant sinner – one kilometer, and he undoubtedly saw the contemptible Trump for whom he is really.
If you look The famous photo 2017 Since the meeting between François and Trump, the Pope is not much happy, and if I dare say, angry that he had to stand next to the Initeuse Trump. If an image speaks a thousand words, then the rumors that Francis did not like Trump is real and visceral in this photo.
It is not necessary a religious scholar to determine that Trump is the antithesis of everything that Pope Francis defended. The idea of seeing Trump entering the massive chapel makes my skin crawl and also reminds me of ruinous thoughts on Trump who would keep me in a confessional for months.
Where Pope Francis raised the poor, Trump pushes them down. Where Francis preached love, Trump cries out of cruelty. Francis, known as “popular pope”, opened the doors of the Vatican to migrants, refugees and LGBTQ + communityincluding transgender people; In fact, he told a group of transgender women that they were “Girls of God. “”
Trump, meanwhile, tried to Erase trans-Americans of public life and civil rights law. He prohibited them from serving in the army during his first mandate, and after President Joe Biden Raised this ban, Trump is again there, trying to empty their health care protections and use them as a punching bags to raise its base.
Francis reminded us that God loves everyone. Trump reminds us daily that he only loves himself.
The Pope condemned Trump treatment of immigrants more than once. In 2016, He said pointed,, “”A person who thinks only of the construction of walls, wherever it is, and not to build bridges, is not Christian. »»
This year, Pope Francis criticized R TrumpPoussinet for mass deportations as “a shame”, insistent, “”It is the poor miserable who have nothing that pays the bill. These are not veiled criticism.
Trump policies were a war against vulnerable. His draconian prices harmed the Americans of the working class. His persistent efforts to reduce Medicaid and Medicare threaten the health and dignity of the elderly, the disabled and the poor.
His tax discounts have padded the ultra-rich pockets while leaving crumbs, if anything, for the rest. It does not lead to conviction or to conscience but with vindictive, meanness and revenge.
Pope Francis spent his papacy a humiliating power in the service of justice. Trump uses power to punish. Francis Embraced the feet of refugees And washed the prisoners' feet. Trump imprisoned the poor and makes fun of the afflicted. Francis gave voice to speechless. Trump silenced the press, threatens dissidents and deals with the truth as a disadvantage for the bulldoze.
And yet, on Saturday, this man himself, this laminate despot of pride, cruelty and fraud, will walk in the city of the Vatican as if it were. As if he deserved to stand in the shoulder with world leaders to celebrate the life of a man who has reprimanded almost everything that Trump has ever done.
Trump does not attend the pope's funeral as a state man. He assists as a showman. This is the covered political theater in the mantle of mourning. Trump does not represent the American people, not those who believe in decency, in mercy, in solidarity with suffering. He is not our moral ambassador. It is a perversion of walking of this solemn moment.
There was a word that my great-grandmother used frequently when she saw something that betrayed her faith: “blasphemy”. It is a blasphemy, pure and simple, that this man, each instinct of which is inhuman and that each reason is self-promotion, will try to desecrate the memory of Pope Francis with his presence.
But the majority of people who look at the pope's funeral are not fools, and the presence of Trump will show the world the striking and striking contrast between good and evil.
If Pope Francis was the shepherd, Trump is the wolf. If Francis has highlighted, Trump takes care of the shadows. Well, it's too nice. He deals in dense darkness. If these funerals are supposed to honor a life spent in the service of love, then the presence of Trump is an act of vandalism. And the world will recognize it like that.
And when Trump dies, and one day he will do it, his inheritance will not be a love or a humility. He will certainly not be cried on Saint-Pierre square. He may be cried by sycophants and catalysts, by dictators and murderous colleagues in the world, but not by the poor that he has punished or the communities he has terrorized.
If anything, his appropriate place of rest would be in the prison where he was trying once to put those without power, a final and ironic account for a man who spent his life worshiping him. And Trump being buried in a prison, once again, seems too nice.
Trump can strut on Saint-Pierre square with gold cufflinks and grievances, but no amount of spectacle can drown the calm and radical gospel of mercy that Francis lived. That the cameras do not catch the boastful of a desperate man to be seen but the tilted heads of the poor, the sweet, the broken heart and those that Francis has never stopped seeing.
On Saturday, that humility speaks stronger than pride. And that the world remembers which of the two really walked in the place of the fisherman.
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