The president of the United States, Donald Trump, and the prime minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, were involved in a diplomatic clash this Friday following a photograph together during the G7 summit that, according to the American president, He agreed to do it because Meloni made him “sad”; a statement that the head of the Italian Government has repudiated on social networks, where she has assured that Italy “does not beg.”
President Donald Trump made these comments in statements to the Italian program ‘L’Aria che tira’. “She begged me to take a photo with her. I felt sorry for her,” Trump assured. Meloni, he added, “really wanted” to take a photo with him, a circumstance that he should not have accepted. “But I felt sorry for him,” the president reiterated.
Meloni has responded with a video published on social networks in which he declared his “astonishment” at some “completely invented” statements by Donald Trump.
“I don’t know why the president of the United States behaves like this with his own allies; it is not the first time it has happened. I can only say that it is disappointing that he does not have the same determination with the enemies of the West, with the enemies of the United States. But one thing must be remembered: Italy and I do not beg!” Meloni countered.
The first diplomatic consequence has been the announcement by the Italian Foreign Minister that has suspended a planned trip to the United States on June 21 and 22 after the “serious and offensive words of President Trump towards Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni”, which “offend all of Italy”.
