{"id":353444,"date":"2026-06-19T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T16:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=353444"},"modified":"2026-06-19T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T16:51:10","slug":"italian-diplomat-cancels-trip-to-u-s-as-meloni-slams-trump-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/italian-diplomat-cancels-trip-to-u-s-as-meloni-slams-trump-national\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian diplomat cancels trip to U.S. as Meloni slams Trump &#8211; National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The Italian government on Friday\u00a0slammed U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s claim\u00a0that Premier Giorgia Meloni had \u201cbegged\u201d for a photograph with him throughout the recent G7 summit, a pushback that suggested the longtime U.S. ally had had enough of Trump\u2019s boasting.<\/p>\n<p>Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani abruptly cancelled a planned trip to the US this weekend, calling Trump\u2019s claims \u201cserious and offensive\u201d toward Meloni and all of\u00a0Italy.<\/p>\n<p>For her part, Meloni posted a video calling Trump\u2019s claims \u201ccompletely fabricated,\u201d which she concluded with: \u201cItaly\u00a0and I don&#8217;t beg.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump had made the comments in an interview broadcast Friday morning on the La7 network. The La7 correspondent had asked Trump about Ukraine, but Trump raised Meloni and the conversation turned to their meeting, caught on video, throughout the just-concluded\u00a0G7 meeting in Evian-les-Bains, France.\u00a0Meloni and Trump were filmed speaking at several points, including alone on a small sofa.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues below commercial<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In accordance with La7, Trump said Meloni had \u201cbegged\u201d him for a photo-op. Trump said he wasn\u2019t obliged to do it but that he felt sorry for her and agreed, La7 said. The broadcaster has a dubbed version of the conversation online, not the unique English audio.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup\" data-newsletter-inline=\"\">\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/themes\/shaw-globalnews\/images\/skyline\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won't miss a trending story.\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__content\">\n<h2 class=\"c-inlineSignup__title\">Get breaking National news<\/h2>\n<p>Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox because it happens so you will not miss a trending story.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In her video, Meloni said she was responding to Trump\u2019s claims because \u201ccertain things deserve an instantaneous response.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump\u2019s statements are completely fabricated. I&#8217;m frankly stunned,\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t know why the president of the US behaves this fashion toward his own allies. In spite of everything, this isn\u2019t the primary time this has happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was an apparent reference to an interview Trump gave to Italian every day Corriere della Sera in April by which he criticized Meloni\u2019s refusal to back the U.S.-Israel war in Iran. Meloni didn\u2019t respond publicly on the time.<\/p>\n<p>By Friday, it appeared she had had enough of his boasts and broadsides.<\/p>\n<div class=\"l-article__part\" data-shortcode=\"caption\">\n<figure class=\"c-figure c-figure--alignnone c-figure--expandable\">\n<div class=\"c-figure__inner\"><figcaption class=\"c-figure__caption c-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-caption__desc\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tFrom left, European Council President Antonio Costa, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, South Korea\u2019s President Lee Jae Myung, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, U.S. President Donald Trump, Kenya\u2019s President William Ruto, French President Emmanuel Macron, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, India\u2019s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva gather for a gaggle photo on the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, Tuesday June 16, 2026.\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"c-caption__cite\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t(Isabel Infantes\/Pool Photo via AP)\t\t\t\t<\/cite><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-tabs\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab c-tabs__tab--active\" type=\"button\">More on World<\/button><br \/>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab\" type=\"button\">More videos<\/button>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI can only say that it\u2019s a shame he doesn\u2019t show the identical resolve toward the enemies of the West, toward the enemies of the US \u2014 toward leaders with whom he, however, is way more accommodating,\u201d Meloni said Friday. \u201cBut there\u2019s one thing he must remember:\u00a0Italy\u00a0and I don&#8217;t beg.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues below commercial<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Meloni had initially sought to construct on longstanding strong U.S.-Italian ties when Trump began his second mandate, and had positioned herself as a \u201cbridge\u201d between Washington and the European Union. She was the lone EU head of state to attend his inauguration.<\/p>\n<p>But relations have frayed over the U.S. war in Iran, which Meloni has said was illegal, and Trump\u2019s position on Ukraine, which\u00a0Italy\u00a0strongly supports. Trump\u2019s tariffs and powerful U.S. support of Israel over its war in Gaza have been other points of contention.<\/p>\n<p>Along with Meloni and Tajani, Italy\u2019s Defense Minister Guido Crosetto also rebuked Trump\u2019s claims, saying he didn\u2019t imagine Meloni would ever beg someone for a photograph, \u201cnot even under threat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can, nonetheless, imagine how much it cost her to put aside what Trump had said weeks ago, to serve the interests of\u00a0Italy, of Europe, and of the West,\u201d Crosetto posted on X. \u201cJokes of this type do no good to anyone: neither to the USA, nor to\u00a0Italy, nor to the alliance.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n\t\t&#038;copy 2026 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Italian government on Friday\u00a0slammed U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s claim\u00a0that Premier Giorgia Meloni had \u201cbegged\u201d for a photograph with him throughout the recent G7 summit, a pushback that suggested the longtime U.S. ally had had enough of Trump\u2019s boasting. 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