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Donald Trump said he will take advantage of his trip to the funeral of Pope Francis, to talk about tariffs with several world leaders.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, observes during a bilateral meeting with the Prime Minister of Norway, Jonas Gahr Store, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 24, 2025. (Free Press Photo: AFP)
US President Donald Trumpsaid Thursday that he wants to take advantage of his trip to Rome, in which he will attend the funeral of Pope Francis, to talk to other international trade leaders.
“I would like to see them all. It would be great. I would like to attend them all, although we have many there and everyone wants to meet. And they want to meet to talk about commerce“said in the Oval Office of the White House next to the Norwegian Prime Minister, Jonas Gahr Støre.
The American republican leader will go to the Italian capital with the first lady, Melania Trump.
The funeral will take place on Saturday and among the attendees will be the president of Argentina, Javier Milei; that of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva; that of France, Emmanuel Macron, and that of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski. Also, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and other European and world representatives.
The pontiff died on April 21. A week earlier, Trump received the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni in the White He invited Italy and to take advantage of the eventual trip to try to have commercial negotiations with other partners.
The US Treasury Secretary, Scott Besent, also pointed out in the oval office that today remained a “very good negotiation” with South Korea, and himself Trump had said shortly before today he talked to China, something that Beijing denied.
