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Pope Francis appeared to reveal Melania Trump’s limits with languages

Editorial Board Published April 21, 2025
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Bear in mind when Melania Trump and her followers preferred to assert that she may communicate not less than 5 languages, together with Italian along with English and her native Slovenian?

Melania Trump made these polyglot claims when she labored as a mannequin within the early 2000s after which in a 2016 interview. Throughout her husband’s first presidential marketing campaign, she really boasted to MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski that she spoke English, Italian, French, German, in addition to Slovenian.

However Melania Trump’s proclaimed fluency in Italian was not on show when she visited Pope Francis on the Vatican in 2017, throughout Donald Trump’s first administration, in keeping with accounts of the go to. She wanted an interpreter when the pope spoke to her in Italian, asking if she fed her husband cake.

The White Home additionally posted images of Donald and Melania Trump’s go to to the Vatican once they and his daughter Ivanka Trump loved an viewers with the pope  — a uncommon privilege sought by a whole bunch of hundreds of thousands of Catholics around the globe.

Ivanka Trump, first girl Melania Trump, and President Donald Trump stand with Pope Francis throughout a gathering, Wednesday, Could 24, 2017, on the Vatican. (AP Photograph/Evan Vucci, File) 

However throughout the go to, Melania Trump largely wore a grim face — together with a black costume and lace veil, in accordance with the costume code for a papal go to, in keeping with media accounts on the time. She solely broke into a quick — although unsure smile — when the pontiff spoke to her straight.

And that’s when issues obtained awkward, as described by the 2020 Melania Trump biography, “The Art of Her Deal.”

When Francis prolonged a hand to Melania Trump, she stated in English, “Thank you. Nice to meet you,” in keeping with creator Mary Jordan, a Washington Put up reporter.

The pope appeared to have been made conscious that Melania Trump may supposedly communicate Italian, stated Jordan. He switched to that language and made a reference to the primary girl’s Slovenian background, asking lightheartedly if she fed her husband potica, a standard Slovenian pastry.

“She looked at him and said nothing,” Jordan wrote.

That’s when Francis motioned to his interpreter, who stepped ahead and translated the pope’s phrases into English. Melania lastly responded and laughed, “Potica, yes!”

When a papal aide handed Melania Trump a rosary for the pope to bless, she once more replied in English, “Oh I would love it, thank you. Grazie,” she stated. She threw in one other Italian phrase when she replied in English to the pope’s query about her subsequent cease. “I’m going to visit a hospital, for bambinos. Thank you so much.”

Pope Francis (R) meets with US President Donald Trump and US First Lady Melania Trump during a private audience at the Vatican on May 24, 2017. US President Donald Trump met Pope Francis at the Vatican today in a keenly-anticipated first face-to-face encounter between two world leaders who have clashed repeatedly on several issues. (ALESSANDRA TARANTINO/AFP/Getty Images)Pope Francis (R) meets with US President Donald Trump and US First Woman Melania Trump throughout a non-public viewers on the Vatican on Could 24, 2017. US President Donald Trump met Pope Francis on the Vatican immediately in a keenly-anticipated first face-to-face encounter between two world leaders who’ve clashed repeatedly on a number of points. (ALESSANDRA TARANTINO/AFP/Getty Photos) 

Jordan wrote that Melania Trump may have been too starstruck by Francis to strive her Italian, or she didn’t need to be impolite and shut Trump and stepdaughter Ivanka Trump out of her dialog with the pope. Or, Jordan wrote, perhaps Melania Trump had taken a web page out of Trump’s playbook: “Exaggerating if it builds the brand and polishes the image.”

The “narrative” of Melania Trump possessing in depth language abilities suits with Trump’s want to construct her up as the brand new Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Jordan stated. In any case, the cosmopolitan spouse of President John F. Kennedy was capable of converse in French with Pope John XXIII for 32 minutes when she visited the Vatican in 1962.

Sadly for Melania Trump, her supposed proficiency in Italian wasn’t on show at some other time throughout that journey. She was seen counting on interpreters or talking in English throughout a G7 lunch and a a go to to France that summer time.  Movies of these visits additionally present the primary girl utilizing a number of fundamental and universally recognized phrases comparable to “bonjour” and “ciao” when assembly European dignitaries or when visiting kids in hospitals and faculties.

Whereas researching her e-book, Jordan stated she couldn’t independently verify the extent of Melania Trump’s language talents.

“I couldn’t find any videos showing her fluency in anything other than Slovenian and English,” Jordan wrote. “I asked the White House if they could point to any evidence, and they did not respond.”

Melania Trump was born Melania Knauss in Slovenia, part of the previous Yugoslavia, in 1970. She moved first to Milan within the early Nineties to pursue a modeling profession after which got here to the US in 1996.

Jordan stated she spoke to individuals who labored with the longer term first girl throughout her modeling days. In the course of the early Nineties Melania Trump additionally labored in Vienna, the place the primary language is German. However modeling agent Wolfgang Schwarz instructed Jordan that Melania knew so little German that they spoke English collectively.

Jordan stated she additionally spoke with photographers and others who labored with Melania Trump through the years. Some are native audio system of Italian, French, and German, however they stated they by no means heard her use various phrases in these languages.

Throughout Trump’s first time period, the White Home biography of Melania Trump didn’t listing fluency in a number of languages amongst her accomplishments, which in any other case embody her being “a highly successful model” and launching her Be Finest marketing campaign to advertise kids’s well-being, Jordan wrote.

Melania Trump’s present White Home biography additionally makes no point out of her talking a number of languages. But it surely praises her for publishing a best-selling memoir and stated she “persistently implements revolutionary approaches to advance her advocacy for youngsters and the causes she helps, demonstrating a forward-thinking dedication to creating a optimistic affect.

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