Ik we're joking but 5'7 isn't even particularly short. The average American man is 5'9, the average Russian/Ukrainian man is 5'10. 2-3 inches below average is a little bit short, just like 5'11 is a little bit tall (yet the latter doesn't get called tall nearly as often as the former gets called short). I think most people have a distorted idea of height, plus world leaders are usually on the taller side