This Italian translator can't believe her ears translating Trump

She was dealt the impossible task of translating his gibberish.

Anybody unfortunate enough to land behind Trump when the cameras start rolling will almost certainly live in memoriam for their hilariously relatable reactions.

It happened to last year's internet-famous #PlaidShirtGuy, and now it's happening to Italian President Sergio Mattarella's translator. At yesterday's meeting between the Italian president and Trump, the president's rants threw the translator for a loop, forcing her to contort her face as she struggled to reframe his half-baked sentences into intelligible Italian. As the meeting wore on, she only became more astonished — and so did we.

At one point, Trump began talking extensively about sand, and the Italian translator perfectly embodied everybody's reaction.


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It was so refreshing to see a normal person on the political stage that some people online wanted her as the new president.

But the meeting, and her face, shocked even more when Trump claimed that the U.S. and Italy have been allies since Ancient Rome. I'm sure Julius Caesar adored his visits to the National Mall.

At the end of this clip, she turns her head to the side in horror and raises her eyebrows at someone off screen.

Hopefully she returns for another meeting. It's nice to know that some of us are on the same page.

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