President Donald Trump and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni recently clashed after Trump claimed she ‘begged’ him for a photo at the G7 summit.
A furious Donald Trump hit back at Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni as the two world leaders’ relationship continues to deteriorate.
In a brief interview with Italian news outlet La 7, Trump had said that Meloni ‘begged’ him to take a photo with her at the G7 Summit.
The channel only released a dubbed version, rather than the original audio.
Meloni responded in a video statement on Friday, saying she was ‘astonished’ by Trump’s remarks. She added that Trump’s claims were ‘completely invented’ and declared that ‘Italy never begs’.
On Saturday morning, Trump insisted that the Italian leader had repeatedly asked him for a photo.
‘Italian Prime Minister Gigiorgia [sic] Meloni asked, over and over, for a picture with me during the G-7 meeting in France,’ Trump wrote on Truth Social.
It was unclear if the misspelling of Meloni’s first name in the President’s Truth post was a new nickname or a typo.
Trump added: ‘Now, after the United States defeated Iran militarily, she wants to be friends again in order to get her “numbers up”. No thanks!!!’
