Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump Donald John TrumpObama calls on Senate not to fill Ginsburg's vacancy until after election Planned Parenthood: 'The fate of our rights' depends on Ginsburg replacement Progressive group to spend M in ad campaign on Supreme Court vacancy MORE scoffed at Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders Bernie SandersKenosha will be a good bellwether in 2020 Biden's fiscal program: What is the likely market impact? McConnell accuses Democrats of sowing division by 'downplaying progress' on election security MORE’s brief meeting with Pope Francis on Saturday, saying that the two could not have had a serious discussion.

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“Well I think five minutes is very short to have been talking about, as Bernie says, climate change and all of the other things he mentioned,” Trump said in an interview on “Fox and Friends” Saturday morning.

“Five minutes sounds like ‘try to get me in to see him so I don’t get myself embarrassed before I come back to New York.’”

Trump said such meetings don't allow for much worthwhile discussion: “After you say hello, there’s no time left.”

The Vermont senator briefly met with the pontiff Saturday morning while attending a conference at the Vatican, despite a Church spokesman saying that there would not be a meeting between the two.