Marco Rubio’s Gift To Pope Leo Is Instantly Mocked As A Last-Minute Airport Buy
Alexandru Orian
The secretary of state's present for the pontiff has gone viral for all the wrong reasons. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s attempt at Vatican gift diplomacy went awry on Thursday. Rubio traveled to the Vatican in an apparent bid to build bridges amid Donald Trump ’s war of words with Pope Leo XIV over the pontiff’s criticism of the president’s war on Iran and crackdown on immigrants. The pope gave Rubio a pen made of olive wood, in what some commenters suggested was a symbolic peace offering. “
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