PBS高端访谈:特朗普总统与教皇方济各会面互送礼物
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President Trump1's first trip abroad placed him at the Vatican today, marking Mr. Trump's first meeting with the leader of the Catholic Church.
Special correspondent Malcolm Brabant is in Rome for us tonight, and he has this report.
It was a meeting of two men with a difficult history.
After a public greeting, President Trump and Pope Francis
spoke2 privately3 for half-an-hour.
Later, there were introductions all around, and group pictures, with Mr. Trump smiling broadly, and the pontiff stone-faced.
Just a little over a year ago, they clashed publicly. The pope took on the Trump campaign pledge to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not a
Christian4.
The candidate answered with a dig of his own.
For a religious leader to question a person's faith is disgraceful.
Today, instead of
barbs5, they exchanged gifts. Mr. Trump presented the pope with a first-edition set of Martin Luther King Jr.'s works.
Francis offered his three main teaching documents and an olive branch medal.
Later, after touring the Sistine
Chapel6 and St. Peter's Basilica, and the president offered a new
assessment7 of the pope.
He is something. He is really good. We had a fantastic meeting. We had a fantastic tour. It was really beautiful.
President Trump's take on his meeting with Pope Francis differs greatly from the
interpretation8 of veteran Vatican
analysts10.
They believe that the president was exaggerating. The Vatican issued an unusually brief statement about the discussions.
They
qualified11 the meeting as cordial, which means that the meeting wasn't a cold one, but a cordial one, but, in any case, it was not a warm meeting.
Longtime Vatican watcher Riccardo Cristiano says he doubts there was any meeting of minds.
I think that it was a opportunity to meet, but also the impression is that they understood they have different perspectives.
Analyst9 Robert Mickens was far more upbeat. He says it was a success for the Vatican.
Pope Francis is always very gracious. He likes to build bridges of encounter.
It's very, very important to get the superpower online with the soft power, the Holy See.
The president also met with the Vatican's secretary of state, who encouraged continued U.S.
participation12 in the Paris climate agreement.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson gave his own
appraisal13 on the flight from Rome to Brussels.
Well, we had a good exchange on the difficulty of balancing, addressing climate change, responses to climate change, and ensuring that you still have a thriving economy.
The president arrived in Brussels this evening for meetings with European Union and NATO officials, and was greeted by the Belgian prime minister and royal family.
Thousands of demonstrators also turned out, protesting the president's immigration and environmental policies.
For the PBS NewsHour, I'm Malcolm Brabant in Rome. undefined
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