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Pope Francis Slams Trump’s Plan for Mass Deportation of Immigrants as a ‘Disgrace,’ Makes First TikTok Appearance to Promote Memoir


Pope Francis slammed Trump’s planned mass deportation plan as 'a disgrace' while promoting his memoir on TV, and also made his TikTok debut.

In a rare TV interview, he slammed President-elect Donald Trump ’s calls for mass deportations of immigrants in the U.S. as a “disgrace.” He also made his first appearance on TikTok, which was briefly banned in the States on Sunday, to promote his new autobiography “Hope.” The Catholic Church’s leader, who has made calls for migrants to be welcomed and integrated into societies a key plank of his papacy, underlines in the memoir how the topic resonates with him personally. In “Hope,” he recounts how his paternal grandparents and father intended to sail from Italy to Argentina in 1927 on a ship called the Principessa Mafalda, which sank off the coast of Brazil and cost 300 lives.

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