The pope and Melania Trump pretty much just fat-shamed Donald

Pope's got jokes.
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The pope and Melania Trump pretty much just fat-shamed Donald
First Lady Melania Trump, President Donald Trump and Pope Francis shared some laughs. Credit: Vatican Pool/AGF/REX/Shutterstock

Donald Trump and his family/advisors met with Pope Francis at the Vatican Wednesday on a stop of the president's first foreign trip. While plenty of online jokes came from the meeting and photographs with a stone-faced pope, it sounds like the pope and first lady were in on the laughs.

A pool report from a gift exchange between the Trumps and Pope Francis (POTUS received three documents, including Pope Francis' 2015 climate change encyclical) included a sassy comment from the pope to the first lady.

The pope asked her, through a translator: "What do you give him to eat, potizza?" She responded with a chuckle that she did.

The initial report quoted the pope asking if she fed POTUS pizza (when in Rome...or at least nearby), but it was later amended. He'd asked about potizza, a Slovenian pastry from Melania's home country.

This exchange piles on to Melania's hand-swatting and refusal to hold Trump's hand during their trip. She is on a tear, shutting down Trump everywhere the pair goes.

For the latest papal incident, here's the online peanut gallery:

And just like that, the pope and FLOTUS now have an inside joke.

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Sasha Lekach

Sasha is a news writer at Mashable's San Francisco office. She's an SF native who went to UC Davis and later received her master's from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She's been reporting out of her hometown over the years at Bay City News (news wire), SFGate (the San Francisco Chronicle website), and even made it out of California to write for the Chicago Tribune. She's been described as a bookworm and a gym rat.

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