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Article snippet: TAORMINA, Sicily — It’s hard to imagine President Trump ever introducing himself to a roomful of reporters as “the man who accompanied Melania Trump to Rome.” But Mr. Trump could have borrowed John F. Kennedy’s memorable line after he and the first lady visited the Vatican last week. Kennedy said it during a trip to Paris in June 1961 when his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy, so dazzled the French that the president suggested, half in jest, that he was little more than a plus-one. “And I have enjoyed it,” he added. Mr. Trump is not one for false modesty — nor, on his just-completed, nine-day foreign trip, was he one for news conferences. But like Kennedy in Paris, he did seem thoroughly upstaged when he introduced his wife to Pope Francis after an audience in the Apostolic Palace. The pope looked dour and pinched standing next to the president. Yet when Mrs. Trump shook his hand, a black mantilla draped over her hair, his face crinkled into a smile. Gesturing to her husband, a mischievous Francis said: “What do you give him to eat? Potica?” Mrs. Trump looked taken aback by his reference to a dessert from her native Slovenia. “Potica?” she asked, then smiled. “Yes!” Clearly tickled, she moved on before turning back to retrieve a rosary handed to her by a Vatican aide, which the pope blessed. (Her spokeswoman confirmed that Mrs. Trump is Roman Catholic; the last Catholic first lady was Mrs. Kennedy.) Later, as the Trump delegation was leaving, Mrs. Trump told the pope tha... Link to the full article to read more