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🇮🇹 Meloni called Trumps claims about her completely fabricated and said, Neither I nor Italy ever beg.
🇺🇸 Italys foreign minister cancelled a scheduled visit to Washington after the rupture.
✈️ Airbus has now surpassed 20,000 A320-family orders, while Boeings 737 remains behind despite launching decades earlier.
🇨🇳 Chinese airlines are shifting major orders toward Airbus, including Xiamen Airlines and China Southern.
🛩️ Italy had already cancelled Boeings KC-46 tanker order and moved toward Airbus.
📉 The same pattern is visible in diplomacy and industry: trust is being lost, contracts are moving, and Europe is building alternatives.
⚠️ The prediction: the Meloni-Trump rupture will not heal before the NATO summit, while Airbus continues to widen its lead over Boeing.
wcmagumba
(6,932 posts)Deuxcents
(28,172 posts)This reminds me of Meloni poring salt on the slug who lies and then shrivels along with the contracts the slug boasted about. 🐌
LetMyPeopleVote
(183,808 posts)News you can use from the opinion editors of the Italian right-wing daily Libero:
— George Conway âï¸ðºð¸ (@gtconway.bsky.social) 2026-06-20T12:46:10.950Z
"TRUMP IS AN ASSHOLE"
www.liberoquotidiano.it/news/esteri/...

sboatcar
(918 posts)Can he hurry up and take a dirt nap, please?
LetMyPeopleVote
(183,808 posts)The Italian prime minister was supposed to be the one European leader who could get along with Trump. In recent days, the relationship collapsed.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni was supposed to be the one leader in Western Europe whom Trump could get along with.
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-06-22T13:26:50.724Z
He instead set his relationship with her on fire â for no reason and to the benefit of no one.
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-meloni-italy-relationship
Two months later, the American president, already short on friends, made matters vastly worse. In fact, The New York Times reported, It looks as if the Italian prime ministers teetering relationship with President Trump may have just fallen off a cliff. From the article:
After the president told an Italian journalist on Thursday that Ms. Meloni had begged him to take a photo together at the Group of 7 summit meeting in France this week, according to an English-language transcript shared by the TV reporter, Ms. Meloni called Mr. Trumps statements totally invented.
Italy and I never beg, she proclaimed in a video posted on social media.
Melonis frustration appeared palpable in the video. She talked about being appalled by Trumps fabricated claims. I dont know why the president of the United States behaves like this with his own allies, the prime minister added.
Meloni's message to Trump was direct. Allies deserve respect. If Trump showed half as much toughness toward Americaâs adversaries as he does toward democratic partners, the West would be stronger. âI and Italy never begâ is the line that people will remember.
— The Steady State (@thesteadystate.org) 2026-06-19T21:00:31.510Z
True to form, the Republican did what he nearly always does: He doubled and tripled down on the dubious claims that generated the international incident in the first place. On Saturday morning, by way of his social media platform, Trump not only repeated his underlying claim, insisting that Meloni asked, over and over, for a picture with me during the G-7 summit, but he even concocted a narrative to support his story.
To hear the American president tell it, Meloni is doing poorly politically because Italians wanted her to do more to support the U.S. war in Iran. This, according to his weird version of events, is why she tried to cozy up to Trump in France, in order to get her numbers up.....
It was around this time that Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani canceled a planned visit to the United States, and other Italian officials reportedly scrapped plans to attend U.S. Independence Day celebrations scheduled in Rome.
It is unclear whether out of intent or ineptitude [Trump] is wrecking the historic relations between the United States and Europe, Giovanbattista Fazzolari, undersecretary to the prime ministers office, said in a statement.
With his inappropriate outbursts, he has managed no easy feat, to make the United States unpopular across the entire European continent, damaging not only Europe but above all the United States, Fazzolari added.....
Its a point that appears to have eluded the Republican, as he continues to alienate, offend, insult and exasperate countries that have been aligned with the United States for generations.
2naSalit
(104,723 posts)Listen to her because it gave him face time where he could disrespect her in person by fantasizing raping her to her face.