Meloni’s latest spat with Trump began when the U.S. leader told Italian broadcaster La7 TV last Friday that she “begged” him for a photo with her during last week’s G7 Summit and that he only granted it because he “felt sorry” for her.
“Now, after the United States defeated Iran militarily, she wants to be friends again in order to get her ‘numbers up,’” Trump wrote. “No thanks!!!”
Trump once showered Meloni, who was elected on a right-wing platform in 2022 and was the only European leader to attend Trump’s 2025 inauguration, with praise. He even promoted the English-language version of her autobiography published in 2025, with a foreword penned by his son, Don Jr., while Vice President J.D. Vance wrote the foreword for her 2026 book Giorgia’s Vision.
In the Friday video, Meloni added: “I don’t know why the President of the United States behaves this way toward his own allies. After all, this isn’t the first time this has happened.”
In a separate social media post on Saturday, the Italian leader claimed that her friendship with Trump “has certainly not helped” her attain domestic popularity, which she said depends on her ability to defend Italy’s national interests. “In any case, my popularity is none of your concern,” Meloni said. “I suggest you focus on yours.”
The fallout
Since then, Meloni has increasingly distanced herself from Trump. In late March, the Meloni government didn’t let U.S. military aircraft en route to the Middle East land at the Sigonella air base in Sicily. Days later in April, before the Italian parliament, Meloni enumerated instances in which her government disagreed with the White House. “As is normal among allies, we must clearly say even when we do not agree,” she said.
Meloni and Trump met several times at the three-day G7 summit in the French town of Évian-les-Bains last week. Reuters reported, citing a European diplomatic source, that Meloni had outspokenly challenged Trump on several points and had defended Europe and called him out for saying he had been abandoned by his allies in the West. On the sidelines of a G7 roundtable, European Council President António Costa had joked that Meloni and Trump appeared to be “friends again,” to which the U.S. President replied: “I was abandoned.” Meloni quickly said that wasn’t true.
Voices from the political opposition also sided with Meloni: Filippo Sensi, a senator for the center-left Democratic Party, said that “no one is allowed to adopt such an arrogant tone toward the person leading the Italian government.”
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