VATICAN CITY: It could have caused a diplomatic incident but a culinary quip from Pope Francis seemed to have gone down well with Donald Trump and his wife Melania. In one of the lighter moments of his meeting with the US president at the Vatican on Wednesday, Francis made an apparent allusion to Trump’s imposing physical size. These have included Francis calling Trump’s border wall plans “not Christian” and the billionaire tycoon suggesting the pope might be glad to have him in charge if the Islamic State group attacked the Vatican. Against that backdrop, Francis’s diplomatic advisors would no doubt have counseled the outspoken pontiff against any reference to Trump’s size, which came under considerable scrutiny during the US election campaign. According to an interview he gave last year, Trump is 1.88 meters tall (six foot two inches) and weighs 107 kilos (235 pounds).

Source: Manila Times May 24, 2017 12:11 UTC