An Italian translator went viral after a side-by-side video shows her reaction to Trump and Biden.
In the video posted by The Recount, translator Elisabetta Savigni Ullmann can be seen puzzled as Trump spoke during his meeting with Pope Francis on May 24, 2017.
Meanwhile, he is seen laughing and smiling at Biden during his visit to the Holy See last week.
Some shared memes and jokes in response, and others identified with their reaction.
Biden, a Catholic, was in Italy for the G20 summit before COP26. While there, he enjoyed a “very warm” meeting with the pontiff that lasted an hour and a quarter.
A White House official said there was “laughter and a clear relationship” between Biden and Pope Francis.
By comparison, Trump’s meeting with the pontiff only lasted thirty minutes. Before even meeting in 2017, there was a bit of tension between the two leaders.
In 2016, Pope Francis criticized Trump’s wall between the US and Mexico, saying, “A person who only thinks about building walls, wherever they are, and not building bridges, is not a Christian.”
Trump responded by saying that if the Vatican were attacked by ISIS, “the Pope would only have wished and prayed that Donald Trump would go because this would not have happened.”
Trump also called it “shameful” for a religious leader to “question a person’s faith.”
He also accused the Mexican government of using the Argentine pontiff as a “pawn.”
After images emerged of a rather awkward meeting between Pope Francis and Trump, the former president later called the meeting “fantastic.”
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