Donald Trump announces meeting with Pope Francis in Italy before it is finalized [View all]
Source: Guardian
Donald Trump announces meeting with Pope Francis in Italy before it is finalized
White House spokesman said president’s declared visit with pope, who has opposing views on the border wall and climate change, is not confirmed
David Smith in Washington
Thursday 20 April 2017 18.44 ED
Donald Trump has signalled that he expects to meet Pope Francis, with whom he has clashed in the past, when he travels to Italy next month.
The US president will be in Italy late May for a meeting of the G7 industrialised democracies. An audience with the pontiff would bring together two wildly contrasting world views.
“I look very much forward to meeting the pope,” said on Thursday in a joint press conference at the White House with Italian prime minister Paolo Gentiloni.
Minutes later Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, admitted that the meeting has not yet been confirmed. Trump’s assertion now risks making a non-meeting look like a snub.
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