And his "visit" didn't last long.

Pathetic.

Trump can't help himself. His mind is always stuck on Men's Locker Room mode.

Giorgia Meloni, the Prime Minister of Italy, had a few words for Senile Satan at the G7 Summit.

— Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@nothoodlum.bsky.social) 2026-06-18T00:23:58.018Z

Giorgia Meloni, "We are optimistic Trump will come?"

French official, "He will come, he said he will come"

Giorgia Meloni, "He's 45 minutes late"

— Farrukh (@implausibleblog.bsky.social) 2026-06-16T20:18:42.399Z

Trump is having a tantrum because Italy refused to assist with the Strait and even forbid "offensive" flights from the Sigonella airbase in Sicily. Before that, Trump did not consult with Meloni or other European allies before launching the war, with Meloni being the most humiliated of the bunch, since the Italian Defense Minister (Guido Crosetto) was literally vacationing with his family in Dubai on the day the war started.

Meloni has also pissed Trump off in other ways by being a big supporter of Ukraine and NATO; she also had a domestic political need to distance herself from Trump on trade (a pasta tariff was floated as punishment for unfair trading practices). She's a shrewd character who dropped her best friend Orban at the drop of a hat as soon as the political winds shifted.

Culturally, for Trump to say that Meloni was "begging him" for a picture is just a massive insult and loss of face that is not acceptable in an Italian context. She certainly pulled Tajani's trip to Miami. More consequences will follow. Italy has already added new barriers to Italian-Americans getting dual citizenship in recent years. I expect that these will now increase substantially. They will also slow-walk consular functions. They have a lot of little levers, especially on tourism (which is a domestic political problem anyway), to make Americans and Italian-Americans suffer.

Since most Italian-Americans are (unfortunately) conservative Trump voters, there's a hint of justice to it.

No comment needed...

Just to be very clear, I don't think it's helpful or true to say "most" about any ethnic group. This type of monolithic stereotyping caused Japanese-Americans to be forced into concentration camps in WWII. Choose your words carefully. Grazie 🇮🇹

Obviously, there is a wide variety of opinion within a very expansive range of "Italian-Americanness." It's hard to put the guy in Queens who grew up with an immigrant parent whose native language was a Neapolitan dialect in the same demographic soup as Jared Lombardo from Naperville who has never heard a word of Italian outside of a Sopranos episode in his life. To be sure.

There's some data on this from Calandra, in any case.

They all reside strongly on the political left.

At the time I met my wife I was turned on, I sheepishly confess, by her looks, but I fell in love with her for, among many things, her politics.

Certe cose meritano una risposta immediata: le dichiarazioni di Donald Trump sono totalmente inventate, sono francamente allibita. Non so perché il Presidente degli Stati Uniti si comporti così con i propri alleati, non è del resto la prima volta che accade. Posso solo dire che dispiace che non abbia la stessa determinazione con i nemici dell'Occidente, con i nemici degli Stati Uniti, con leadership con le quali invece si dimostra molto più accondiscendente. Però una cosa se la deve ricordare: io e l'Italia non imploriamo mai

My translation:

Certain things require an immediate response: the declarations of Donald Trump are totally invented; they are, frankly, dumbfounding. I don't know why the President of the United States behaves this way with his actual allies, and it's not the first time that it has happened. I can only say that it's unfortunate that he doesn't have the same determination with the enemies of the West, with the enemies of the United States; with their leadership he shows himself to be much more accommodating. There is, however, one thing that he should remember: neither I nor Italy ever beg for anything.

with our real enemies!

That's how an Italian woman calls you a p-word.

keep telling him.

I'm sure there's an animated meme out there for this.

https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExa2Qxbjdud2Q0MmVlczhzYTdtbzVieTEwem5qOGFnYTBtcjZqZDhkaSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/8bQdMxDSJ8oiQ/200w.webp

Cancel visits. Take umbrage. Recall ambassadors.

STOP pretending he is normal and not a Child Rapist. MENTION his criminal behavior, convictions, and sexual crimes. CONSTANTLY. DAILY!

I like that, should be his new title...

and I think pretty indicative of how all rational world leaders perceive him... a shameless buffoon performing witless stage-tricks for nickels and dimes whom must be tolerated on occasion for no reason other than decorum (like my drunk Uncle Lloyd at family holidays)

I recall seeing video yesterday of her chewing Trump's ass -- all 4' 7" of her, shaking her finger in his face and chewing him out like a drill sergeant on a recruit!!!

Just because she has contempt for Trump doesn't mean she is a good leader.

From "Giorgia Meloni and the return of fascism: how Italy got here" (Sept. 2022) - a longish article, but a good one, albeit a bit dated.

Meloni can gaslight the public by making fascist assertions while claiming fascism no longer exists. Importantly, those who warn that fascism is making a comeback are derided as irrational. ...

Meloni opposes same-sex marriage, wants to put significant curbs on access to abortion to address the “emergency” of Italy’s declining birth rate and has made explicit references to Europe’s supposed “Judeo-Christian” roots. The latter is a common Islamophobic trope that has long formed a key part of European far-right ideology.

Her racism is also evident in a depiction of immigration as an invasion – via calls for a naval blockade and portrayal of “undocumented migration” as a UN plot. This plays willingly on racist “great replacement” narratives.

A dick pic. He's that crude now.

(I know, he's always been that crude, but he has less of a filter now)

Geez, how inept can he be at diplomacy?

...SUCH a clod!

No graces, no refinement, no redeeming qualities whatsoever.