Donald Trump and the Pope met at Vatican City to set aside their differences and spread a message of peace across the world.
The US president visited Pope Francis with his wife Melania and several aides, including daughter Ivanka, and the two had a private chat for half an hour.
The pair haven’t always seen eye to eye with Francis criticising the president’s campaign pledge to build a wall along the Mexican border and claims the US should turn away Muslim immigrants and refugees.
The Pope had said: “A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian.”
Nevertheless, after the meeting he handed Trump a medal featuring an olive branch – a symbol of peace – and posed for photographs.
The awkward photos – in which Trump is grinning like a Cheshire cat while Melania, Ivanka and the Pope look like they’d be anywhere but the Vatican – didn’t go unnoticed, and soon spurred another great meme from Trump’s nine-day international trip.
That awkward moment when you’re Pope and you accidentally gatecrash a satanic ritual pic.twitter.com/olAeAnK8KB
— Matt Round (@mattround) May 24, 2017
Pope Francis looks like he is doing this for Penance pic.twitter.com/5gcbsMKpRG
— Julia Macfarlane (@juliamacfarlane) May 24, 2017
Why does Ivanka look like the widow at the funeral of her elderly, wealthy husband who died under mysterious circumstances pic.twitter.com/1CwEKELGE2
— Mollie Goodfellow (@hansmollman) May 24, 2017
Pope's face when he found out he has to hear Trump's confession. pic.twitter.com/2fDvKz5v1N
— Darth Putin (@DarthPutinKGB) May 24, 2017
When you are the one who has just farted#Trump pic.twitter.com/NklkFO3fYq
— James Doleman (@jamesdoleman) May 24, 2017
I like the fact that the Pope looks like he's slowly shuffling sideways to leave. pic.twitter.com/v3XrE0KXsC
— Pro-EU Saboteur (@iamsammypanther) May 24, 2017