{"id":3089,"date":"2026-06-19T13:34:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T13:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3089"},"modified":"2026-06-19T13:34:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T13:34:33","slug":"italys-top-diplomat-cancels-us-trip-as-meloni-slams-trumps-claim-she-begged-for-a-photo-with-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3089","title":{"rendered":"Italy\u2019s top diplomat cancels US trip as Meloni slams Trump\u2019s claim she \u2018begged\u2019 for a photo with him"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<p><span>ROME (AP) \u2014 The Italian government closed ranks on Friday to\u00a0slam U.S. President Donald Trump over his claim\u00a0that Premier Giorgia Meloni had \u201cbegged\u201d for a photo with him during the recent G7 summit, a pushback that suggested the longtime U.S. ally had had enough of Trump\u2019s boasting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3087\">\u2018We\u2019re gonna have about 10 more\u2019: Scots and World Cup tourists discover that American craft beer isn\u2019t so bad after all<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani abruptly cancelled a planned trip to the United States this weekend, calling Trump\u2019s claims \u201cserious and offensive\u201d toward Meloni and all of Italy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Meloni for her part posted a video calling Trump\u2019s claims \u201ccompletely fabricated.\u201d She concluded: \u201cItaly and I do not beg.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>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, during 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to 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 original English audio.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In her video, Meloni said she was responding to Trump\u2019s claims because \u201ccertain things deserve an immediate response.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cDonald Trump\u2019s statements are completely fabricated. I am frankly stunned,\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t know why the president of the United States behaves this way toward his own allies. After all, this isn\u2019t the first time this has happened.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It was an apparent reference to an interview Trump gave to Italian daily Corriere della Sera in April in which he criticized Meloni\u2019s refusal to back the U.S.-Israel war in Iran. Meloni didn\u2019t respond publicly at the time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>By Friday, it appeared she had had enough of his boasts and broadsides.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI can only say that it\u2019s a shame he doesn\u2019t show the same resolve toward the enemies of the West, toward the enemies of the United States \u2014 toward leaders with whom he, on the other hand, is much more accommodating,&#8221; Meloni said Friday. \u201cBut there\u2019s one thing he must remember: Italy and I do not beg.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3085\">\u2018I just want to bring back the chicken parm\u2019: Visiting Europeans find culinary shocks and delights in Boston<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Meloni had initially sought to build 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But relations have frayed over the U.S. war in Iran, which Meloni has said was illegal, and Trump\u2019s position on Ukraine, which Italy strongly supports. Trump\u2019s tariffs and strong U.S. support of Israel over its war in Gaza have been other points of contention.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>By Friday afternoon, solidarity with Meloni had poured in from across the government and political spectrum, and included a call from President Sergio Mattarella, Italy\u2019s widely respected head of state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhoever attacks\u00a0@GiorgiaMeloni\u00a0attacks all of us,\u201d posted Transport Minister Matteo Salvini.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said he didn\u2019t believe Meloni would ever beg someone for a photo, \u201cnot even under threat.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI can, however, imagine how much it cost her to set aside what Trump had said weeks ago, to serve the interests of Italy, of Europe, and of the West,\u201d Crosetto posted on X. \u201cJokes of this kind do no good to anyone: neither to the USA, nor to Italy, nor to the alliance.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Tajani had been due to travel to the U.S. as early as Sunday to take part in an Italy-U.S. business forum in Miami during which he was to have meet with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, according to a U.S. State Department announcement of the meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3083\">Isiah Kiner-Falefa filling in nicely for shorthanded Red Sox infield<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani called President Trump\u2019s claims \u201cserious and offensive\u201d toward Premier Giorgia Meloni and all of Italy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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