Enda Kenny has told how Donald Trump couldn't pronounce his wife's name on their St Patrick's Day visit in 2017.
The former Taoiseach and his wife Fionnuala made the obligatory annual trip to the White House for the March 17 celebrations.
And the retiring Mayo politician has revealed what the then recently elected US President addressed his wife as.
He said: "We had the lunch on Capitol Hill. He couldn’t pronounce the name Fionnuala which is my wife’s name so he called her Viola."
And it seems Kenny didn't take offence to the gaffe, but instead, he now uses the name as a joke at home.
Speaking on the Irishman Abroad podcast, he added: “Now if a row breaks out at home I say: 'Now Viola, calm down a bit!'”
He told host Jarlath Regan that the visit was positive, and he took a moment to raise remind Trump of the America's national anthem, while referring to the illegal Irish in the States.
He said: “I said: 'Mr President, next time you stand watching Old Glory wave, think of the words of your own national anthem - land of the free and the home of the brave'.
"We’ve got 50,000 out here, they’re as courageous as their forefathers ever were, but they’re not as free because they can’t come home.
"If you legitimise that or find a way of legalising it, they will emerge from the shadows, they will work for America, they will live for America and they will die for America."
