Trump Suggests Italy's Giorgia Meloni Is a Stalker

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33. MaddowBlog-Ahead of NATO summit, Trump renews offensive on Italy's Meloni for no reason

As Trump prepared for an important international gathering, there was no reason to renew his offensive against his Italian counterpart. He did it anyway.

Ahead of NATO summit, Trump renews offensive on Italy’s Meloni for no reason! If you’ve not noticed, Trump’s ongoing rampage of irreparable damage to the US reputation in the world continues! Congress COULD exercise the 25th Amendment and get rid of him! www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

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Ahead of NATO summits, normal American presidents prepare by reviewing diplomatic objectives and scheduling discussions with key international partners. Ahead of this week’s NATO summit in Turkey, Donald Trump prepared for the gathering by needlessly extending his weird offensive against an allied leader for no good reason. Time magazine reported:

United States President Donald Trump on Sunday evening shared a social media post featuring Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, reopening a recent dispute between the two leaders ahead of this week’s NATO Summit in Turkey.

Trump posted an image on Truth Social that shows Meloni looking up at the American President, with the words “restraining order needed” printed across the top.

....The Italian prime minister was the only European leader to attend his second inauguration, which came on the heels of a Mar-a-Lago visit. Headlines that referred to Meloni as Europe’s “Trump whisperer” soon followed.

In April, however, the relationship started to deteriorate. After the Republican picked a bizarre fight with Pope Leo XIV, Meloni defended the pontiff. The presidential whine was almost immediate: Trump complained that Meloni was “very different from what I thought,” adding, “I’m shocked by her. I ⁠thought she had courage. I was wrong.” He added, “She is the one who is unacceptable.”

In June, for reasons unknown, Trump renewed the offensive, telling an Italian journalist that Meloni had “begged” him to take a photo with her at the recent G7 summit in France.....

This week, after the story had faded from view and as Trump prepared for an important international gathering, there was no reason to renew his offensive against his Italian counterpart. Apparently unable to help himself, he did it anyway.

Soon after, the Italian foreign minister told La Stampa newspaper that the country would no longer officially respond to the president’s nonsense.

“We have a U.S. president who loves to provoke, especially on social media,” Tajani said. “We have decided to stop responding to these remarks so as not to fuel disputes among our allies.”