On the heels of the G7 in France, U.S. President Trump and Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni have been engaged in a geopolitical spat.
The core of the issue centers on Italy’s refusal to allow the U.S. military to conduct flight operations for the conflict against Iran from U.S. airbases in Italy. President Trump, Vice-President Vance, Secretary of State Rubio and Secretary Hegseth have all remarked on their disappointment with Italy and Spain that has led to a full review of U.S. NATO operations in Europe.
The issue became personal at the G7 when President Trump ignored Meloni’s repeated attempts to repair the friction. President Trump was no longer tolerating the two-faced approach. Actions speak louder than words.
Understanding, a very specific image sensitivity Prime Minister Meloni carries, President Trump stated, “Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni asked, over and over, for a picture with me during the G-7 meeting in France. She is doing poorly in Italy with her level of popularity, possibly because she turned down the United States of America, a Country that truly loves and protects Italy, when it came to denying Iran from obtaining or developing a Nuclear Weapon (But so did NATO, for that matter!). She wouldn’t even let us use Italy’s landing strips or runways, a great logistical inconvenience, and this despite the fact the U.S. contributes hundreds of Billions of Dollars a year to protect Italy, and other “so-called” NATO Allies. Now, after the United States defeated Iran militarily, she wants to be friends again in order to get her “numbers up.” No thanks!!! ~ President DJT
Meloni then hit back with: “these constant, unprovoked attacks are senseless. As for my popularity, being your friend certainly has not helped it, nor does it depend on my relationship with you. My popularity depends on my ability to defend Italy’s national interest, and that is exactly what I have always done,” Meloni said in a post on Instagram. She added that “in any case, my popularity is none of your concern. I suggest you focus on yours.” {source}
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I don't trust this one.
She climbed on nationalism.
Then governed on globalism (pro EU).
Now returning to nationalism.Meloni is the Lindsey Graham of Italy. https://t.co/jz7TdRZQPi
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) December 15, 2024
Reduce the military presence in Italy by half and see what economic havoc occurs in Italy.
A two-thirds reduction, to ensure that the ‘message’ gets through.
Why are we in Italy to begin with if they don’t want to cooperate? Makes no sense
I think we should just let NATO wither on the vine. Russia is not really a significant threat against the EU. It is completely occupied in Ukraine.
Always prescient Sundance!
Nothing more needs to be said, Sundance nails it. Things are said and done. Trump shouldn’t pay any more attention to this person of multiple personalities.
Well said
Whoopsiedaisy, Italy.
President Trump recognizes truth.
She didn’t want to help us against Iran but now she wants to rely on Trump’s help in any way?
The good thing about Trump is he can walk away from a problem.
The EU placed their priorities and money in the wrong things and have failed to keep their commitments.
Defend yourselves, why should we do it?
No need for the “girl drama”….
“Defend yourselves, why should we do it?”. Exactly. Same should apply to every other country as well, especially the sh*tty little state in the ME that does absolutely nothing for us but drag us into their wars.
that comment from a tony? yeah Nothing but godlessness.
Mean girl drama at that.
Italy needs US more than we need Italy. Chick overplayed her hand.
“Said in a post on Instagram” sums up how seriously she should be taken.
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“Pudgy fingers” looks nervous
Zelensky, to me, always looks like you can almost smell him through the picture.
But, it might be a draw. Where is it that European women don’t shave?
““Pudgy fingers””
Perhaps P.F. has never been touched like that before…..
…hmmmm…those love birds need psychotherapy …….and cold turkey for sure…..
…hmmmm…those love birds need
psychotherapyto go get a room. And pull the window shades…….Wow he IS really small!
looks like he may want to play her piano
Her piano is missing the one key that would interest him.
Thank you Sundance.
Love it when President Trump sees the light, (the backstabbing while expecting $$$$ favors type), and calls them out.
💥💯🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
PT doesn’t suffer Fools.
Nor should he at this stage of his life and level of accomplishment, DP. Our POTUS always first extends a welcoming hand, even to fools, and responds accordingly. No Better FRIEND, No Worse ENEMY! 🙂
Same goes for all the Zelensky grifters.
I think the President using this to bring attention to the situation with the “so called allies”.
I hope his ultimate goal is to get us out of NATO.
When she was first catapulted into office, I remember vividly that at that time I wrote a glowing, hopeful comment about her and was enthused about what this would mean for Italy, a country which is prone to general elections as often as I am to washing dishes.
And for a while, she didn’t disappoint.
Until she showed her colours by refusing access to airbases in Italy.
Never let it be said I am unwilling to reevaluate past judgements when the evidence disappointingly calls for it…
Which I do now.
Mea culpa.
I think, she needs to be shoved to the background. These women politicians never seem to disappoint…
And I also think that PDJT needs to invite the Scottish ‘football’ (soccer) team to the White House. Forget that one lady from Italy…
…the Scots brought us some fun and laughter between the bagpipes and their duck…and the ‘crowning’ of a Statue of George Washington, with a traffic cone, in Boston. And they drank the town dry…someone did not watch their P’s and Q’s….
And the Norway team, fun and team spirit, ‘rowing’…
And for the record, I do not like soccer.
And they cleaned up after themselves. Which I’ll admit surprised me in such a gratifying way.
Our Treehouse resident Scottish brother, Dekester, no doubt has a tale or two to recount from the place of his birth about Scottish football fans at home.
Did you see that Scottish parade through Boston enroute to Red Sox Stadium? It was huge and I mean huge and so peaceful.
I do not care for soccer, but the fans are a hoot! Love that the world is experiencing America as we are proud of living here! Good people!
An interesting read. “How the Scots Invented the Modern World” by Arthur Herman. *The true story of how Western Europe’s poorest nation created our world and everything in it*.
You summed up my own perspective very well.
Me too, Miss B. Italy is a huge logistics hub for us in the Med. That snub cannot be easily forgiven or ever forgotten! 🙁
No, it cannot. A stone’s throw from the dark continent from which hordes of anti Western invaders are originating.
And let’s not forget that that the Vatican is there. A Vatican which abhors borders and believes every person on earth has a God given right to live where he wants to live…or take over, gransform, and colonize. And if they all want to live in Italy? Well, so be it.
I expected much from her, or at least better..
That she has shown herself to be part of the globalist cabal is a singular disappointment, MHB
Shame about that…
Bets,
It’s modus operandi for the uniparty beasts to run for office under one banner, assume power, and their real motives emerge.
The classic bait and switch.
Thank God, He Is Showing us their real faces. Discernment is necessary – as well as thorough vetting. Play the six-degrees-of-Kevin Bacon game with the person and the closest people around them. Especially their spouses with different last names.
Oh boy, Woo…is He EVER!
We ask in humble prayer. And while He may not answer in the ways we hope or as quickly, He is definitely answering.
I am pretty sure her politics suck (I don’t know enough to opine for sure), but I do know this from being married to an Italian woman for 30+ years – Italian women don’t take crap from anyone.
You’re better off fighting with a damn wood chipper. This woman has a spine of steel.
Trump: “NATO is zero without America.”
Meloni: “Cool… so should we shut down your bases, cut trade, or just storm McDonald’s?” 😂😂😂
The alpha dog stuff doesn’t work on these women.
You do know know what NATO stands for, right?
Needs America To Operate.
Treehouse winner of the day.
YEP! TWO scoops with that! 🙂 🙂
You do know know what ISAF stands for, right?
I Saw Americans Fight.
I was married to an Italian woman too. Got tired of the emotional duplicity.
“The alpha dog stuff doesn’t work on these women.”
If by alpha dog stuff you mean “rationality”, or “reason”, or “mutual respect”, you are RIGHT!
I determined that I was tired of stubborn, intransigence, and as TRUMP is doing, walked away.
Once again, TRUMP demonstrates that no one else is capable of putting America first.
My recently deceased Vietnam Veteran husband was married to an Italian woman. She threw him out of the house he had paid for with his retirement account from Wal*Mart. She filed for divorce and the judge tore her up one side and down the other for “abandoning” a disabled Vietnam Vet. The judge ordered alimony and made her pay off his truck. In this case, intransigence did not win the day!
When I was married to Sophia Loren I had a hell of a time with her.
Meloni gave crap but President Trump doesn’t take it. She used her only card when she refused the use of the bases. We need a more reliable ally. The bases need to go elsewhere, we don’t need their trade and by all means storm the McDonalds. He shouldn’t give her another thought. He’s not married to her after all.
So the picture you are painting is that Italian women are stupid. Got it.
Pretty much.
No, they’re Karen’s on roids.
Well, good for her. It is not admirable to be a shrew. Look at Michelle Obama and how much she is disliked. Hillary, Kamala..
Respectfully, if she had a spine of steel she would actually have been the nationalist she ran as. Not the globalist she governed as.
She can wail and play instagram games all she wishes, if Trump pulls the troops out of Italy, there is not a thing in the world she can do about it.
Trump is not an Alpha trying to suck up to her. Trump is an Alpha who will not put up with her.
He walks away with the troops then Italy has to defend themselves. She can run her mouth all she wants, it will only make it worse.
The good thing is that we don’t even need to debate what I’m saying, all we gotta do is watch it play out.
“Trump: “NATO is zero without America.”
Meloni: “Cool… so should we shut down your bases, cut trade, or just storm McDonald’s?”
Trump: “Spend your own money to build your own military to send your own sons and daughters into the battlefield to defend your own country. Enjoy the McDonald’s, I recommend the quarter pounder.”
Walks away….
If it wasn’t for the Alpha Dogs they would be humping Germans right about now.
Her moral compass would make her well suited to be a U.S. Senator. The fact that she is not American wouldn’t be the slightest bit of a problem. Most U.S. Senators don’t present as Americans anyway.
US Senators are lucky if they can identify their own genitals, no less present as Americans.
😂😂😂
I hear the tune from the godfather faintly playing through the still summer air.
Check the paddocks…
And don’t go to Long Beach…
<Check the paddocks…>
LOL!! Khartoum…
Just another European turncoat weathervane willing and ready to destroy her country for personal gain. Disgusting on every level.
Childish
Italy has profited off our military for years then fails us in crunch time….she is a euro joke.
Yankee doodle keep it up and with the girls be handy…..
“and he called it Meloni”
“Hush, hush, keep it down now, voices carry
Ah-ah”
Meloni: “My popularity depends on my ability to defend Italy’s national interest,…!”
Yo, Madam Prime Minister,…… Iran has ballistic missiles that can now hit Italy,…. care to expound how you can defend Italy’s national interests without America’s defensive missile systems,… you know, the ones that President Donald J. Trump controls?
Why not Thank Him for destroying most of Iran’s missiles,… without your assistance, and in fact, with your attempts to hinder his military actions,….eh?
You do care about your national Popularity, right? Wonder how the Italians now think and feel about being vulnerable to Iran’s missiles???????
Publicly biting the hand that feeds you is not good public policy, Madam PM. Ciao, Georgia.
Battle fatigue d —yet?
😝
Good call SD!
She’s gay???
Doesn’t seem too happy.
Depends on the day of the week.
Trump vs Meloni ? No contest…
A WH UFC match can decide.
She chose…
Poorly..
(if only I could do pics…)
Here ya go. 😊
t is always nice to be nice……until it`s not.
Haven’t these European leaders figured out you can’t play Trump as a sucker?
Guess not.
She has some very evil ancestry
She, baloni, can’t seem to figure out which side she is on. The other explanation, is she is trying to play both sides of the street? That kind of two faced bologna never works and angers both sides.
“I don’t trust this one.
She climbed on nationalism.
Then governed on globalism (pro EU).
Now returning to nationalism.”
My term for that is “political whore”. Sellout any personal beliefs you have in order to get re-elected. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) is a prime example. When she represented a conservative rural district in upstate NY (outside Albany) in the state assembly, she had a solid A+ rating from the NRA. When she became a U.S. Senator, she dropped to a “F” rating with the NRA within 6 months (H/T to Sen. Chuck “salmonella” Schumer (D-NY).
Current Governor Kathleen Hochul is another. She was a “moderate D” when she held elective office when residing in Hamburg (WNY).
I believe it’s a prerequisite for joining the club.
“Who will help me plant my corn?” said the little red hen…
“NOT US!” said N.A.T.O.
F her.
Pardon me.
I don’t even know her.
A woman always crouching, half bent over and looking up at men makes her look retarded.
It did wonders for the political career of Kumala.
Back in the day: Reminds me of picture of MTG looking up at what his name previous House Speaker.
She has bigger issues in Italy with Muslims than she has with Trump. That is why her approval numbers are so low. She sold her Country out to the EU.
I believe “Giorgia Meloni” translates into English as “Karen Italiana” … ???
And while “The Italian Karen’s” family reportedly traces its roots back to fascism and communism in Italia, mio famiglia traces some of our roots back to Sicily, so we outta’ know …
Is there any reason at this point to leave any U.S. troops stationed in Europe (other than perhaps to maintain preparedness for whacking Islamic militias embedded in the cities)?
President Trump won’t take that grievous insult lying down. Nope. Payback coming, all in due time. It might be subtle, like no invite to the Ballroom’s big event when multiple world leaders are invited (if she’s even still PM). Might be Italy is tied in the first down of our troops along with Germany.
But I think PT will take reciprocal actions sooner rather than later. PT purposefully brought this to a head. He wants her gone if she won’t support USA when USA troops went into harms way. She’ll be gone…..
No skanks. You make your choices, you live with the consequences.
Has Lindsey Graham passed the bubble-wand on to Meloni? The two can go to Disneyland.
“Meloni is the Lindsey Graham of Italy.”
LOL
Burn.
Ms Lindsey hotter than Ms Georgia?
I was looking at her pictures under her instagram postings. Looked familiar.
“Where have I seen her???”
I pondered.
Then, it hit me. She was the dog walker/old guy baby sitter in “The King of Queens”.
Dead ringer for Nicolle Sullivan.
Perfect assessment.
I came to the same conclusion yesterday after reading multiple accounts from different sources.
Meloni definitely has a two-faced problem because she rose to power using a populist approach that was also rather pro Trump.
Sundance nailed it, noting that Meloni reverted to the EU /globalist position when it came to the Iran conflict and US forces needing to use EU bases.
We have had more than enough two-faced, insincere political leaders around the western nations. I 100% agree with President Trump for recognizing this and calling outMeloni for what she is.
I also noted that all the anti-Trump media has been orgasmic over this and is now trying to frame this “spat“ as seriously hurting Trump‘s popularity and impacting the November primaries. But that reporting was a little too quick so I called BS on that prediction.
That post aged well. Good call.
She has always given me the impression that she uses her “femininity” to cozy up to the various men in power. Easy, manipulative way to gain leverage.
Basically I see her as a pricey escort.
Alas … we have 3 significant military bases in Italy… at Aviano, Vincenza, and Sigonella. They can be adjusted but it will take time… and the affect would be felt widely
I always laughed at a Jay Leno episode for his car show, he was touring I think Abram’s tank mfg. The gentleman told him that the tank could fire weapons accurately even traveling 45 mph in reverse. Jay Leno said “you could a lot of these to the Italians”.
Wha’s the point of the US having air bases in any country when the US is not allowed to use them? Perhaps Meloni would like he US just to close that air base.
Her comment/post indicates Trump was correct in his.
Her best and most effective response would have been to ignore it and say nothing.
Pete already announced we are downsizing our presence in Europe; to be further reduced in the coming two years based on NATO contributions by member states.
FAFO.
It looks like Georgia doesn’t understand what allies do for each other. President Trump’s strong consistent leadership keeps exposing the weak deceitful hypocrites who pretend.
Given the post-war history of things “our” CIA has done in and to Italy, its elections, its elected political leaders (several assassinated)… I would be inclined to treat all Italian leadership as possibly susceptible to PTSD.
And given the power structure within the EU… I would be inclined to disbelieve that I’m ever hearing a European leader express their own true thoughts.
I heard that Trump has had 6 extended conversations with King Charles of England. I’ve heard some thoughtful, studious people opine that the king may be effectively a hostage to “non-national” powers.
But usually, when we see Trump publicly humiliate someone… an effective relationship eventually comes out of that. Anyone remember back when Trump would relentlessly needle “Little Marco”…?
I wonder if somehow Trump is providing some kind of cover for them, providing space in which they can realign? But then, I’m not even that good at 2-D chess.
All the thieves like Miss Lindsey; birds of a feather.