Why Meloni has hit back hard against Trump and his ‘made up’ photo claim | Riccardo Alcaro
With her popularity flagging and a general election looming, the Italian PM sees a strategic advantage in the rupture If Giorgia Meloni thought that she could put her April spat with Donald Trump over the pope’s criticism of the US war on Iran behind her, she had not banked on the US president’s capacity to bear a grudge. Trump reignited tensions by telling an Italian TV journalist that the Italian PM had “begged” him for a picture at the recent G7 meeting in France. The Spanish newspaper El Pa…

