President Donald Trump met with Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni on May 24.
Trump told Gentiloni about meeting the pope. He said the pope “is something—he’s really good. We had a fantastic meeting, we had a fantastic tour, it was really beautiful.”
Trump heads for Belgium in a few hours.
He will be back in Italy on Friday for a Group of Seven summit.
President Trump meets Italian prime minister
US President Donald Trump (3rdL), White House senior advisor Jared Kushner (4thL), US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (2ndL) and Italy's Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni (hidden) take part in a bilateral meeting in Villa Taverna, the US ambassador's residence, in Rome on May 24, 2017.
After a private audience wit Pope Francis early in the morning Trump's family will fly to Brussels this afternoon for meetings with EU and NATO officials before returning to Italy for the G7 summit in Sicily on May 26-27. / AFP PHOTO / MANDEL NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)
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