Former President Joe Biden was one of many global outstanding figures who attended Saturday's funeral at the Vatican Pope Francis, but no longer the leader of the free world changed everything.
Biden was accompanied by his wife, former first lady Jill Biden, but they did not sit near President Donald Trump and other world leaders. Instead, the couple sat behind the foreign VIP area because they were no longer heads of state.
One account commented on X: “Biden is no longer part of the cool kids club.”
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“lmao! They put Biden back to Pope Francis' funeral,” another commented to X.
“Look at how lost he looks.”
Another X user wrote: “They put Biden behind the pope's funeral like a dog.”
“Joe Biden is seen as the nursing home patient for world stage President Trump on the world stage!” Another person posted on X, staying away from Trump and other world leaders from the former president.
Biden was also accompanied by his wife and a pastor to his seat, grabbing both and moving cautiously.
Biden entered his seating area and took pictures with Uganda Parliament Deputy Speaker Thomas Tayebwa before the pope's funeral began.
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Biden attended several other photos of the funeral with other mourners, smiling in each snapshot.
Biden, the second Catholic president of the United States, visited the Vatican in October 2021, when he met with Pope Francis to discuss topics such as climate change and poor advocacy, according to the conference's transcript.
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Pope Francis met President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden at the Apostle Palace in Vatican City on October 29, 2021. (Vatican media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images)
Biden has met Pope Francis on several other occasions, including during the 2015 Pope's visit to the United States.
Biden also met with Pope Francis at the G7 Leaders' Summit in Apulia, Italy in June, where the two discussed the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the conflict between Ukraine and Russia.
Biden awarded Francis Pope Francis the Presidential Medal of Freedom in January, describing him as the “consecutive” leader Monday, who was “everyone's pope.”
“He is different from anyone before him,” Biden said in a post on Monday morning. “Pope Francis will be remembered as one of the most important leaders of our time, and I am even more beneficial to knowing him. For decades, he has served the most vulnerable people in the whole of Argentina, and his mission has never stopped serving the poor.
Francis Facing health complications Over the years, he had half of his lungs removed as a child.
Francis, 88, died in the Vatican the day after Easter.
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Dr Andrea Arcangeli, head of the Vatican Ministry of Health, said the pope died of a brain stroke that caused him to fall into a coma and caused irreversible heart failure.
He was elected as Pope on March 13, 2013 and was the first Jesuit to become a Pope.
The Pope's last public appearance was on Easter Sunday in St. Peter's Square.
Biden's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News numbers.
Diana Stancy of Fox News Digital contributed to the report.
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