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Why the F*CK Is Trump Going to Pope Francis’ Funeral Mass? [1]
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Date: 2025-04-22
No, really — why the fuck is Donald Trump going to the funeral of Pope Francis?
What does the most performatively cruel political figure in modern history have in common with a pope who centered compassion, human dignity, and the cry of the poor? What kind of twisted cosplay is this?
Let’s put it plainly: Trump at Pope Francis’ funeral is not just ironic — it’s insulting. It’s an attempt to absorb the credibility, moral weight, and spiritual gravitas of a man whose entire life’s mission directly challenged everything Trump stands for.
This is the political equivalent of a wolf giving a eulogy at a sheep sanctuary. A billionaire showman at the funeral of a shepherd.
Let’s break it down.
Pope Francis: A Leader of the Marginalized
Pope Francis was far from perfect, but what set him apart from many of his predecessors was his insistence that the Church serve the poor, the powerless, and the persecuted. He consistently called out inequality, consumerism, racism, and climate destruction — naming them not as political issues, but as moral ones.
“A Church that is poor and for the poor has to fight against all forms of injustice… Every person, especially the most fragile and vulnerable, is a temple of the Holy Spirit.” — Pope Francis
He met with trans activists. He embraced disabled children. He condemned anti-migrant rhetoric, rebuked nationalism, and begged world leaders to remember the lives at stake when they play games with borders and bombs.
In his 2015 speech before the U.S. Congress — a moment of historic courage — Francis stated:
“The Golden Rule also reminds us of our responsibility to protect and defend human life at every stage of its development… This conviction has led me… to support the cause of the abolition of the death penalty.”
He was not just a spiritual figure — he was a moral disruptor. A head of state who openly told the world that capitalism without humanity is a sin.
Trump: A Monument to Cruelty and Greed
Now let’s talk about Donald Trump, the man somehow seated in a place of honor at a funeral mass for the pope.
This is a man who:
Was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation in a civil trial brought by writer E. Jean Carroll.
Mocked a disabled journalist on national television.
Called Black nations “shithole countries.”
Boasted about “grabbing women by the pussy.”
Deported disabled immigrants and separated families at the border .
Referred to those fleeing violence as “animals” and “invaders.”
Told the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by.”
This is a man who used religion as a photo op — holding a Bible upside down in front of a church he’s never attended while police brutalized peaceful protesters just yards away.
This is a man who, when asked if he’s ever asked God for forgiveness, said:
“I am not sure I have. I just go on and try to do a better job from there. I don’t bring God into that picture.” — Donald Trump, 2015
In contrast to Pope Francis’ message of humility, Trump once famously declared:
“Nobody has done more for Christianity or for evangelicals or for religion itself than I have.” — Donald Trump, 2020
A man so pathologically self-interested he sees religion as a tool, not a truth. Compassion as a weakness, not a virtue.
Sexual Abuse and the Sacred
One of the most painful and morally complicated parts of Pope Francis’ legacy was his approach to the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse crisis. While imperfect and too often slow, he did more than any pope before him to acknowledge its horror, meet with survivors, and begin institutional reforms.
“The Church will never seek to hush up or not take seriously any case.” — Pope Francis, 2018
Trump, meanwhile, defamed his own accuser, E. Jean Carroll, after being found liable by a jury. He claimed she wasn’t his “type.” He mocked her on stage. He refused to show an ounce of accountability, let alone reflection or remorse.
Every time that Donald Trump does something “Trumpy,” it is always someone else’s fault.
”Fake news.” “Liberal losers.” Ugly. DEI hires. This man is his own spokesperson for eugenics, not realizing that the same standards that he sets for the “homegrown” are the same things that would put him in a Salvadorian gulag.
So ask yourself: What is Trump doing at this funeral?
What is a man like that doing in a pew, pretending to grieve a pope whose work — flawed and human, yes — was undeniably centered on compassion for the abused?
This Isn’t Faith. This Is Fraud.
Donald Trump’s presence at Pope Francis’ funeral is not about honoring the dead. It’s about manipulating the living.
It’s about optics. Headlines. Pretending to be holy in hopes of luring in the moderate religious voter or reminding far-right Catholics that he’s still playing their game. But Trump’s vision of power is the opposite of Francis’ theology.
Pope Francis believed in universal dignity.
Trump believes in hierarchy, exclusion, and revenge.
Pope Francis called for nations to welcome migrants with mercy.
Trump built a wall and called migrants “rapists and criminals.”
Pope Francis lived in a modest Vatican guest house rather than the papal palace.
Trump slapped his name on gold-plated towers and sold $399 bibles with his face on the packaging.
This isn’t spiritual. This is strategy — and it’s gross.
From Double Pneumonia to JD Vance: The Final Insult
Let’s not forget — Pope Francis survived double pneumonia earlier this year. A man of 88, leading with one lung, barely able to walk unaided at times, still showing up for marginalized people across the globe — from climate refugees to victims of war, from transgender Catholics to unhoused migrants.
He was, against all odds, still standing.
Until he met JD Vance.
Let me say that again: this pope, who lived through dictatorships, church coverups, fascism, and multiple near-death hospitalizations — this pope had a stroke and died shortly after an audience with a freshman senator from Ohio who thinks gay rights are Marxism and child poverty is character building.
This is a man who once called Pope Francis a “globalist” and praised Hungary’s Viktor Orbán — the very brand of right-wing authoritarianism Francis warned us about.
If poetic injustice had a face, JD Vance would be its portrait.
And yet — the silence is deafening.
Now imagine — really, imagine — if Pope Francis had died within 24 hours of meeting Kamala Harris.
You think Fox News wouldn’t be LIVE ON AIR, talking about “dark forces,” secret pacts, or “an ominous cloud over the Vatican”? You think Newsmax wouldn’t be holding an exorcism live on air while Marjorie Taylor Greene screamed into a candle?
See the difference between Pope Francis with Joe Biden versus the Orange Assclown????
Hell, if Joe Biden had visited the pope and he’d died the next day, Sean Hannity would have called for impeachment, and Tucker Carlson would’ve monologued about "Vatican deep state psyops funded by woke liberal Jesuits."
But because it’s JD Vance — because it’s Trump and his orbit — we get silence.
No breathless coverage. No panels. No evangelical outrage. No conspiratorial YouTube specials.
Just a quiet shrug and a deep insult to a life’s work.
We See You, Donald.
I’m not Catholic — but I respected Pope Francis.
He challenged traditional doctrine and made religion human again. He elevated the less fortunate, promoted compassion for refugees, and preached against war with clarity and conviction. He respected the saint and the sinner, the straight and the LGBTQIA+, and allowed people to live and love as they understood God.
Any man who does that deserves to be mourned with reverence — not overshadowed by a broke con man in a red tie.
This is everything Donald Trump and JD Vance are not.
Let’s be real — Pope Francis survived double pneumonia, fascist death squads in Argentina, and more conservative backbiting than a Black mother in a PTA meeting. And somehow, it was JD Vance who had the final audience? That man is like a bad Yelp review come to life — bland, belligerent, and missing the point entirely.
And while the world mourned, Trump was busy trying to deport asylum seekers back to prisons in El Salvador, pushing the same cruelty Pope Francis spent a lifetime calling sin. Even in death, Francis stood for dignity. Trump, meanwhile, issued a “condolence” that mentioned himself more times than the man who died.
This fucker couldn’t even apologize to the Exonerated Five after publicly calling for their executions. That’s something I’ll never forget or forgive. Or how he bankrupted the dreams of hundreds of working-class people with Trump University. Or let women die in parking lots after miscarriages, because of the anti-abortion fanatics he empowered.
Now he wants to sit at the pope’s funeral mass, smug and unrepentant, like we forgot.
Who is this man — who brings his wife that wants nothing to do with him, surrounds himself with blonde Ivanka clones to feed his nasty, incestuous fantasies.., and plays footsie with fascists — to pretend he belongs in Vatican pews?
We see you.
We see the fraud, the thirst for power, the absolute gall to chase the divine with unclean hands.
You ain’t holy.
You’re just loud.
So again, we ask:
Why the fuck are you there?
And this time, let’s say it for the people in the back —
Sit your ass down, Donald.
We’re in mourning. Sans MAGA.
Fuck you, Donald.
Kyrie eleison. Free Kilmar.
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