Snap! Pope asks Melania "what do you give him to eat"?

[rainbow4321]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4536468/This-great-honor-Trump-meets-Pope.html

'What do you give him to eat?' he asked Melania Trump in Italian, referring to the president's hulking size. 'Potizza?'
'Potizza!' a delighted Melania responded, laughing. Potizza is a Slovenian dessert.

[secondwind]

1. I love our new Pope! He knows

how to do this right!

[lamp_shade]

2. My grandmother was born in Slovenia in 1889 and immigrated to America

in 1912. I have her Poteca recipe. I make at least one every Christmas.

[Drahthaardogs]

23. Do you use sour cream for the dough?

Some of the recipes omit it, but traditional ones almost always have it.

[lamp_shade]

45. Nope. scalded milk

flour
sugar
shortening
egg
yeast
salt

[Botany]

3. The Pope called him fat to his face

[L. Coyote]

36. Yep. "You look a lot fatter in person."

[Buns_of_Fire]

4. With TWO scoops of ice cream and a bucket of KFC on the side!

"Good," says the Pope (in Italian). "You'll be rolling his fat ass down the steps of AF1 in no time."

[Ilsa]

5. This is hilarious!

I don't have to agree with everything this pope believes in to really like him as a person.

[Scarsdale]

7. Knuckle sandwich

she replied!! I am sure she would like to serve him many things, other than what she said. Lard ass tRump was probably upset AFTER he realized he had been called FAT.

[femmedem]

6. Why is Melania wearing a veil here out of respect, but not in Saudi Arabia?

Rhetorical question, of course.

[Ilsa]

8. I don't think she was raised Catholic, but

she may actually like the pope and wants to show deference to him.

[hack89]

9. Catholicism is the biggest religion in Slovenia

She may be Catholic.

[WinkyDink]

11. Because she feels like it? J/S.

[IronLionZion]

13. Because screw the Saudis

[7962]

17. HA! Thank you for that

[treestar]

20. True and now it is not even required of

women in Catholic churches and has not for decades.

[IronLionZion]

24. Choice is a powerful thing

[woodsprite]

39. I thought the head veil, covering of the knees and shoulders was protocol in the Vatican.

My daughter did 2 study abroad trips to Italy, each one included trips to the Vatican and their art/book conservation laboratories. They were required to have shoulders and knees covered for all visits, head coverings were only required for certain areas.

[treestar]

42. You are likely right

I was raised Catholic but have never been to the Vatican and don't know about its rules. I recall being a kid and the women wearing hats, veils or just doilies on their heads. Then some time when I was still a child, we were relieved of that requirement! And were allowed to have guitar masses rather than organ! Oh, the scandal! I can remember older people of then, I guess late 60s, being utterly scandalized about that.

[brush]

25. I thought the same thing. Bet it's being noted by the Muslims.

[Ligyron]

10. Two words:

Tic-tacs

[WinkyDink]

12. BTW, this shows Melania knows Italian.

[cyclonefence]

16. Or maybe the Pope spoke to

the FLOTUS (first linguist of the US) in Spanish.

Is there no language she can not speak?

[WinkyDink]

26. No, he spoke in Italian. Like many Europeans, M. probably knows more than her native Slovenian and

English.

[cyclonefence]

34. So we continue to be told

I remain unconvinced that she speaks several languages "fluently," judging only by what I've heard of her English. I know, I know, Europeans typically are fluent in several languages--but I know Finns and Norwegians and Spanish and Dutch people and Russians and Ukrainians and folks from the Middle and Far East, many of whom have not lived in the US as long as Melania has, who are indeed fluent in English. It is my opinion, and only mine, that Melania is not fluent in English, and I am therefore suspicious of claims that she is fluent in any language other than her native tongue.

My feeling has nothing to do with politics; it has to do with my bullshitometer.

Jackie Kennedy was fluent in French. I know this because I saw her have substantial, involved conversations, in French, with Charles DeGaulle. If someone shows me Melania having a sustained conversation with the Pope in Italian, I will retract and apologize.

[cyclonefence]

44. Check out the video posted in the thread "Holier than thou visit"

and you'll see that first, the Pope says something to her (in, I assume, Italian--or maybe Spanish ); Melania looks blank; a *translator* pops up from behind the Pope and you can hear him say, "He's asking you what you feed him."

Your honor, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I rest my case. Melania is not fluent in Italian. I believe now, in fact, that she is not even vaguely comfortable in Italian--I mean, if she knew any Italian, surely a word or two would have been familiar to her. I'm not fluent in French, but I know that if a Frenchman asked me what I fed my husband, I'd have *some* idea of what he was saying (actually, I am pretty fluent, and I'd understand that perfectly) and react with a smile at least. Melania had no idea of what the Pope was talking about, and it's clear to me that the Pope had been informed of her soi-disant multilingualism, or he would have had the translator there ahead of time.

It was a charming thing for the Pope whom I love to have said.

[milestogo]

49. Maybe she was bewildered by the suggestion that its her job to feed the big cheetoman.

[7962]

18. I believe she knows 5 languages; Italian is one of them nt

[WinkyDink]

28. I know that. I posted for those who denigrate her knowledge simply because of how she's risen in the

world and how she speaks English (I admit to having fun writing as her).

[7962]

30. Got it. I agree.

Shes better educated than most Americans i would bet.

[cyclonefence]

35. Well, I'm a college graduate, for what that's worth, and she's not. nt

[7962]

46. Which means you successfully completed college. Good job on that.

But its not an indicator of intelligence. Many of the smartest, most successful people I know arent college grads.
Donald trump has an economics degree.
W has a Masters Degree.
My ex has two degrees from Columbia!

[IronLionZion]

21. She knows Slovenian, English, French, German, and Serbian

I don't see anything showing she knows Spanish or Italian

http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/a-crash-course-on-melania-trump/12/

Her husband can barely speak English

[WinkyDink]

29. Well, except for this bit of Italian conversation she had with the Pope.

[IronLionZion]

37. Maybe she knows Italian, that would be 6 languages

while Donny can barely manage one.

[dhol82]

22. Or, at least recognizes the word potizza

[WinkyDink]

32. She understood the Pope's Italian enough to know he was making a joke. Do you not know he would

have been informed ahead of time that Melania knows Italian and that he could speak to her in it?

Do you think he would risk embarrassing the US First Lady?

[dhol82]

43. Did she actually reply to him in Italian or just do a nervous giggle?

Just heard on MSNBC that she thought the pope said something about a pizza.

I'll wait for the video.

[Aviation Pro]

14. It also shows how much...

Melania despises the fat fucking turd.

[yuiyoshida]

15. Potizza

[Renew Deal]

47. Looks good to me

[yuiyoshida]

48. yup...btw

Love your Star Wars Rebel Alliance symbol and for that, here is my favorite Star Wars Character...

Ahsoka Tano!

[DetlefK]

19. Trivia: Potizza belongs to a "family" of cakes found everywhere in Eastern Europe.

It's yeast dough, rolled flat, sprinkled with ground walnuts and sugar (and maybe raisins), rolled up and baked. Sometimes the roll is one long piece, a strudel. Sometimes the roll gets bent into a circle, like the Potizza.

You will find cake-recipes similar to this from Austria ("Nuss-Strudel&quot to Iran ("Koloocheh&quot .

[WinkyDink]

33. Well, now I want some!

[underpants]

27. Doesn't the Pope have an ORB?

It's all the rage these days

[dalton99a]

31. Nice write-up

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

38. "Say lady, what do you feed this water buffalo?"...... "You mean other than my soul?" nt

[whistler162]

40. Or maybe lots of Putin

Oops meant Poutine!

[woodsprite]

41. I wanted the Pope to perform an exorcism on Donnie while he was there. n/t