{"id":2396,"date":"2026-06-19T12:09:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T12:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2396"},"modified":"2026-06-19T12:09:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T12:09:42","slug":"italys-meloni-says-trump-totally-invented-story-that-she-begged-him-for-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2396","title":{"rendered":"Italy&#8217;s Meloni says Trump &#8216;totally invented&#8217; story that she begged him for photo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Summary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>ROME, June 19 (Reuters) &#8211; Italian Prime \u200bMinister Giorgia Meloni accused her one-time close ally Donald Trump of fabricating a story about her on Friday, after \u200cthe U.S. President told an Italian TV channel that she had &#8220;begged&#8221; him to take a photo with her at a G7 summit.<\/div>\n<div>Meloni said she was &#8220;astonished&#8221; by his comments, which were &#8220;completely made up&#8221;. She also chided him for acting with far greater deference to the enemies of the West than he does towards old, established allies.<\/div>\n<div>Underscoring how \u200bmuch Trump&#8217;s comments have angered Meloni&#8217;s government, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani announced he was cancelling a planned visit to \u200bthe U.S. next week.<\/div>\n<div>The latest exchange marks a sharp deterioration in ties, coming just days after signs emerged at the G7 summit \u2060that the two right-wing leaders had steadied a previously strained relationship following tensions this year over the war on Iran.<\/div>\n<div>Video from the event in \u200bFrance showed Meloni and Trump deep in conversation, sitting side-by-side on a small sofa, but the U.S. leader suggested he had merely indulged her by chatting \u200bwith her.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;She&#8217;s probably happy I talked to her. I didn&#8217;t have to talk to her,&#8221; Trump was quoted as saying by La7 TV channel in a brief interview, after he himself asked the journalist about Italy&#8217;s prime minister.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;She begged me to take a picture with her. She wanted a picture with me so \u200bbadly. I wouldn&#8217;t have taken it, but I felt sorry for her,&#8221; Trump said, according to La7&#8217;s translation.<\/div>\n<div>The channel did not release the \u200boriginal audio, just a dubbed version.<\/div>\n<h2>MELONI HITS BACK IN SHARPLY WORDED STATEMENT<\/h2>\n<div>Meloni responded: &#8220;Donald Trump&#8217;s statements are completely made up. I am frankly astonished. I don&#8217;t \u200cknow why \u2060the president of the United States behaves like this towards his allies: it is not the first time, moreover.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;I can only say it is disappointing that he does not show the same determination with the enemies of the West and of the United States, whose leaders he instead treats with far greater indulgence,&#8221; she said, adding: &#8220;There is one thing he should remember: neither I nor Italy ever beg.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>Announcing the cancellation \u200bof his planned U.S. trip, Foreign \u200bMinister Tajani said on X: &#8220;The \u2060serious and offensive words of President Trump towards Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni offend the whole of Italy.&#8221;<\/div>\n<h2>TOP MELONI OFFICIAL SAYS TRUMP IS DESTROYING HISTORIC TIES<\/h2>\n<div>One of Meloni&#8217;s closest political allies, who usually shuns \u200bthe media spotlight, struck out at Trump using a tone that would have been unthinkable beforehand.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;It is \u200bunclear whether out \u2060of intent or ineptitude (Trump) is wrecking the historic relations between the United States and Europe,&#8221; Giovanbattista Fazzolari, undersecretary to the prime minister\u2019s office, said in a statement.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;With his inappropriate outbursts, he has managed no easy feat, to make the United States unpopular across the entire European continent, damaging not \u2060only Europe \u200bbut above all the United States,&#8221; he added.<\/div>\n<div>Meloni was once a vocal supporter of \u200bTrump and was the only European leader to attend his inauguration in 2025.<\/div>\n<div>However, she criticised him this year for lashing out at Pope Leo over his condemnation of the Iran conflict. That in turn \u200bprompted a blunt rebuke from the U.S. president, who accused her of lacking courage.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2394\">In Spain, elderly UK expats struggle for care post-Brexit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2392\">Ambani\u2019s Jio Platforms eyes record $3.8 billion Indian IPO, sources say<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2390\">Tell it to me Strait<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italian Prime \u200bMinister Giorgia Meloni accused her one-time close ally Donald Trump of fabricating a story about her on Friday, after \u200cthe U.S. President told an Italian TV channel that she had &#8220;begged&#8221; him to take a photo with her at a G7 summit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Italy&#039;s Meloni says Trump &#039;totally invented&#039; 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