The Daily Beast reports:
President Donald Trump, wearing a blue suit in a sea of black, was seated in a prized front-row seat for the funeral of Pope Francis. The seating location will likely be a source of great satisfaction for the famously thin-skinned president, who mercilessly mocked Joe Biden after he was seated in the 14th row at Queen Elizabeth’s funeral in 2022. Based on precedent, Trump was expected to have been seated in the third row, behind anointed monarchs.
The concession on Trump’s seating arrangement represents a significant break from the precedent last employed at Pope John Paul II’s 2005 funeral. On that occasion, Catholic royals took the front row, followed by non-Catholic royals. Non-royal heads of state were then seated behind them in alphabetical order based on the spelling of their countries’ names in French, the official language of Vatican diplomacy.
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He just can’t get it right, can he? At the Pope’s funeral, the front row has world leaders all appropriately in black. Trump? pic.twitter.com/JvueFK1aF8
— Stephen Chan (@DrStephenChan) April 26, 2025
Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky have been given front-row seats for Pope Francis’s funeral.
Emmanuel Macron is also sat in the front row.
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Trump wore blue instead of black at the Pope’s funeral but he managed to grab a seat in the front row as the Vatican abandoned protocol in order to keep him happy.https://t.co/TLfoNqL8fX
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) April 26, 2025
Trump in Rome at the Pope’s funeral, on his phone. pic.twitter.com/oe8PS7NMJf
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