President Donald Trump<\/a> got a little Mc-catty toward Tom Cruise<\/a> at the McDonald\u2019s Impact Summit in Washington on Monday. (Watch the video below.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n In a segment complimenting the pilots who bombed Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities in June, the president said that when he brought them to the White House he noticed they were \u201call handsome.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cThey look like Tom Cruise,\u201d Trump continued. \u201cThey really do. I don\u2019t want to be a wise guy and say \u2018but taller.\u2019 I\u2019m not gonna say that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Trump got laughs \u2015 but one wonders if Cruise, who played a heroic pilot in the \u201cTop Gun\u201d movies, would find it so funny.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Check out Trump\u2019s Cruise roast at 22:35:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The cinema idol admitted once he was sensitive to talk<\/a> that he wasn\u2019t tall enough to play the 6-foot-5-inch character Jack Reacher in the 2012 movie of the same name.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Women\u2019s Wear Daily wrote<\/a> he wore shoes to look taller at a premiere for Brad Pitt\u2019s \u201cF1\u201d premiere in June, and used a similar \u201cfootwear trick\u201d at a Cannes event. \u201cTom Cruise Keeps His Height-Boosting Footwear Game Strong At \u2018F1: The Movie\u2019 Red Carpet Premiere,\u201d the headline read.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Trump also called the pilots \u201cperfect specimens.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cI mean, these guys are like from a movie,\u201d he said. \u201cI could take every one of them and put them in a movie.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Celebrate<\/span>Truth<\/span>This Season<\/span><\/p>\n Your Support<\/span>Fuels<\/span>Our Mission<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Your Support<\/span>Fuels<\/span>Our Mission<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n The holidays can get loud. But some stories cut through the noise — the ones that make sense of the chaos and hold power to account. Support the newsroom built on clarity, accountability, and a healthy dose of reality.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n We remain committed to providing you with the unflinching, fact-based journalism everyone deserves.<\/p>\n Thank you again for your support along the way. We\u2019re truly grateful for readers like you! Your initial support helped get us here and bolstered our newsroom, which kept us strong during uncertain times. Now as we continue, we need your help more than ever. We hope you will join us once again<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n We remain committed to providing you with the unflinching, fact-based journalism everyone deserves.<\/p>\n Thank you again for your support along the way. We\u2019re truly grateful for readers like you! Your initial support helped get us here and bolstered our newsroom, which kept us strong during uncertain times. Now as we continue, we need your help more than ever. We hope you will join us once again<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cOur fierce, independent reporting and unvarnished perspective hold power to account and inform millions of readers. Please support this hard-hitting journalism.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n![\"Whitney](\"https:\/\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/691c87541700009d2b9c5f37.jpg?ops=50_50\")
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