The height discrepancy of an inch or two was visible when Trump met the heir to the British throne at the reopening of Notre Dame in Paris on Saturday. Trump and William appeared to enjoy a cordial exchange as they shook hands inside the cathedral, though the prince had to bend his head to meet the shorter man\u2019s gaze.<\/p>\n
Trump and William later posed for photos at the residence of the British ambassador to France, as an exercise of soft diplomacy. Trump, again, looked somewhat shorter than the son of King Charles III and the late Princess Diana.<\/p>\n
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PARIS, FRANCE \u2013 DECEMBER 7: Britain\u2019s Prince William, Prince of Wales meets U.S. President-elect Donald Trump at the UK Ambassador\u2019s Residence on the day of the reopening ceremonies of the Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral, five and a half years after a devastating fire on December 7, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Aaron Chown \u2013 Pool\/Getty Images)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Incidentally, the former reality TV star once claimed that he could have \u201cnailed\u201d Diana, and he also insisted in 2023 that William\u2019s mother was among the celebrities who wanted to \u201ckiss\u201d up to him before he went into politics, People reported.<\/a> The latter claim was fiercely denounced<\/a> by Diana\u2019s brother, Charles, 9th Earl Spencer, who said that the princess once likened Trump to a very bad sore in \u201cthe arse,\u201d in the one and only time he said she mentioned him.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not likely that William brought up Trump\u2019s boasts and insults at the Notre Dame event. After all, he was there to represent his father and British government. If there\u2019s any consolation, he appeared to tower above the man who once spoke disrespectfully about his mother \u2014 even as he also appeared to have a friendly chat with the incoming U.S. president.<\/p>\n Trump, for his part, praised William, quipping to reporters: \u201cGood man, this one.\u201d In a later interview with the New York Post<\/a>, Trump had more positive things to say about the future king, saying they had a \u201cgreat\u201d 40-minute chat.<\/p>\n \u201cI asked him about his wife and he said she\u2019s doing well,\u201d Trump told the Post, referring to the Princess of Wales\u2019 treatment over the past year for cancer. Trump also referred to Charles\u2019 cancer battle, saying, \u201cAnd I asked him about his father and his father is fighting very hard, and he loves his father and he loves his wife, so it was sad. We had a great talk for half an hour, a little more than half an hour. We had a great, great talk.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, it\u2019s possible that Trump has become shorter than his stated 6 feet, 3 inches. It\u2019s known that men can begin to shrink as they age. Some health experts say<\/a> that men can lose an inch in height between ages 30 and 70, and lose another inch after they turn 80. Trump is almost 80.<\/p>\n According to the Daily Mail, Trump remains sensitive about his height, as he has boasted about the beauty and stature of his oldest daughter Ivanka Trump<\/a>. He also has expressed pride<\/a> in the fact that his youngest son, 18-year-old Barron, has grown to a towering 6 feet 7 inches.<\/p>\n But \u201crumors have long swirled\u201d that Trump relies on \u201clifters\u201d \u2014 insoles in shoes \u2014 or taller heels to give him an additional height, the Daily Mail reported.<\/p>\n Unfortunately for Trump, he has begun to appear shorter than he might like when he has recently posed besides other world figures and business leaders, according to the Daily Mail. For example, Trump didn\u2019t look much taller standing next to the 5-feet-7-inch French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace Saturday.<\/p>\n Trump also has been somewhat dwarfed physically by his fervent new supporter, the 6-feet, 2-inch Elon Musk, the Daily Mail said. When the Tesla and Space X founder joined Trump at his campaign appearances, or when he hosted the 47th president to the Nov. 19 launch of his SpaceX Starship rocket, he stood \u201csignificantly\u201d taller than the new president, the Daily Mail reported.<\/p>\n Originally Published: December 9, 2024 at 9:01 AM PST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Given Donald Trump\u2019s history of making false or misleading statements \u2014 and his fixation on people\u2019s physical appearance…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[20857,7709,557,7714,7713,4080,23899,23900,32,14235,77,533,2843,603,23901,12,285,2832,532,2831,7710,519,6417,23902,7711,7712,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-42695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-bay-area","9":"tag-british-royal-family","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-catherine","12":"tag-catherine-middleton","13":"tag-celebrities","14":"tag-celebrity-politics","15":"tag-coffee-break","16":"tag-donald-trump","17":"tag-election","18":"tag-entertainment","19":"tag-kate-middleton","20":"tag-latest-headlines","21":"tag-national-news","22":"tag-national-politics","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-politics","25":"tag-prince-of-wales","26":"tag-prince-william","27":"tag-princess-of-wales","28":"tag-royal-families","29":"tag-royal-family","30":"tag-things-to-do","31":"tag-tv-streaming","32":"tag-uk-royal-family","33":"tag-william","34":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114384965658900637","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}