US President, Donald Trump on Wednesday, May 24, met with Pope Francis at the Vatican City for a short private audience on the third leg of Trump’s overseas trip.
Trump arrived for the meeting along with his wife Melania, daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner.
On their arrival, the Pope queried First Lady Melania Trump about her husband’s eating habits but it is unclear whether they discussed “pizza” or a similarly named Slovenian cake, “potica.”
“What do you give him to eat?” Francis asked Slovenia-born Melania via an interpreter, in comments captured on camera.
In the original Spanish, the pope added a word that sounds like “potica,” but this was dropped in the English oral translation.
The First Lady replies, but it is unclear whether she says “pizza” or “potica.”
According to a media pool report by White House reporters, the exchange was always about pizza.
A Vatican source said they could not clear up the issue, but noted that Francis is a fan of potica, a kind of nut roll and that he always asks about it when he meets someone from Slovenia.
The pope, however, is also known to like pizza.
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